Application for the 2027 cohort of storytellers is here.
If you’re working to heal land, strengthen community, and envision a regenerative future, we invite you to apply now to tell your story!
Application deadline is December 11, 2026.
Upper Midwest storytellers work within these themes:
Theme #1: Reciprocity
Your story explores the give and take between people, land, animals, and past and future generations. Showcase what reciprocity looks like in your daily life or community practices. How do you care for the land and how does the land care for you?
Theme #2: Resilience
With multiple, intersecting crises at our door, how are you building land-based resilience in your work, your communities, and your livelihoods? Highlight the hopeful, practical work you are doing to build resilience so you and future generations can thrive. Highlight how you are restoring soil, water, and ecological health, rebuilding community networks, or tending to the wellbeing of neighbors who are harmed by unjust systems. How are you rebalancing relationships disrupted by extraction, colonization, or climate change?
Theme #3: Love as Stewardship
This theme invites you to share the story of what you love most about your land, your community, or your place — and what you’re doing to protect it. Show us what’s at stake and what you are fighting for, tending to, or nurturing. How does love become a force for stewardship, protection, and action?