Curated by HILARY TRUDELL

Photography by STACY COX

8.5 x 9 Color Paperback (ISBN: 978-1-944528-15-7 )

SHARE YOUR TRUTH

Representing The Yarn’s first twenty live and virtual shows, the thirty-seven storytellers in this anthology share powerful truths on diverse themes including family, racism, coming out, sexual assault, mental health, failure, resilience, death, and love. Among dozens of lived experiences of real Arkansans originally shared on stage, you’ll meet a psychiatry resident whose own institutional stay has led to advocacy throughout his career, a former Marine whose divorce was followed by shared custody of two hairless cats, an entrepreneur who built a greeting card empire from the desire to see herself represented, and a woman whose homelessness taught her how to look up.

Curated from the show’s first four years of productions under the direction of co-founder and producer Hilary Trudell, this anthology expands The Yarn’s mission to amplify voices, build understanding, and create space for human connection.

Exciting feature: At the end of every story, readers will discover a QR code that leads to the storyteller’s live reading on The Yarn stage.