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“To Truly Live the Teachings” (an interview with Master Minghai with Diane Wolkstein) and “Layla and Manjnun” (Persian), Parabola, Volume 35, Number 1 (“Love”), Spring 2010.


“Who Knows What the Future Brings?” (Taoist), Parabola, Volume 34, Number 4 (“The Future”), Winter 2009.


“Papa God and General Death” (Haitian), Parabola, Volume 34, Number 2 (“Water”), Summer 2009.

“Storytelling Brings Understanding” (includes an interview with Diane Wolkstein) by Vern Barnet, Kansas City Star, April 8th, 2009.


“Beyond School: Connecting with Children through Storytelling,” Parents League of New York Review, 2009 edition.


“Ruth: Where You Go, I Will Go” and “Monkey King: Journey to the West,” Parabola, Volume 34, Number 1 (“Imagination”), Spring 2009.


"God in Love," Parabola, Volume 33, Number 2 ("God" issue), Summer 2008.


"Storyteller Speaking Silence: The Storytelling Art of Dovie Thomason" (review), Parabola, Volume 33, Number 1 ("Silence" issue), Spring 2008.


"I Have Arrived, I am Home" (an interview with Thich Nhat Hanh by Diane Wolkstein), Parabola, Volume 31, Number 4 ("Home" issue), Winter 2006.


"The Finest Quality Dirt" (a essay about the Hans Christian Andersen story "Hans Clodhopper"),

School Library Journal, April 2005.


"Safe, Secure, and Wild," Storytelling Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 3, May/June 2000.


"Transforming Fairy Tales: The Princess in Transition," School Library Journal, September, 1999.


"Sun Mother Wakes the World," Parabola, Volume 24, Number 1 ("Nature" issue), February, 1999.


"The Rebirth of Inanna," Parabola, Volume 23, Number 4 ("Birth and Rebirth" issue), November, 1998.


"Tzaddik of Our Time," Parabola, Volume 20, Number 2 ("The Stranger" issue) Summer, 1995.


"Twenty-Five Years of Storytelling: The Spirit of the Art," The Horn Book, December, 1992.


"Psyche is Not a Wimp," Anima, Spring 1991.


"Storytelling at the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Center," National Storytelling Journal, Summer, 1985.


"On Storytelling and Religion: A Conversation with James Wiggins," The Horn Book, June, 1983.


"Beyond the Seer of Lublin and the Master Thief, " Parabola,  Volume 4, Number 1 ("The Trickster" issue), February, 1979.


"The Master Play Puppeteer," Parabola, Volume 4, Number 4 ("Storytelling & Education" issue), December, 1979.


"Telling Stories," Parabola, Volume 2, Number 4 ("Relationships" issue), 1977.


"The Stories Behind the Stories: An Interview with Isaac Bashevis Singer," Children's Literature in Education, number 18, Fall 1975.


"An Interview with Harold Courlander," School Library Journal, May, 1974.


"Old and New Sexual Messages in Fairy Tales," Wilson Library Journal, Volume 46, Number 2, October, 1971.

Periodicals

“My stories go back and forth from the telling to the writing. Almost every story I write I tell many times. When children ask me which is your favorite book, I usually answer the one I’m writing now.”

— Diane Wolkstein


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