The Yarn Storytelling
The Yarn seeks to amplify voices, build understanding and create space for human connection.
Motherland: Episode Five
In this episode of Motherland, a maternal health storytelling series produced by The Yarn, we explore the causes of trauma brought about be the many events, systems, and policies that control and effect women's journeys into motherhood.
In this harrowing and heartfelt episode, Kate Dinee and Sarah Coleman share their stories of heartbreak and resilience.
Motherland: Episode Four
In this episode of The Yarn's maternal health series, we revisit stories shared from our Motherhood episode first airing in 2020. These stories are heartbreaking and heart warming and all tap into a mother's relentless love.
Storytellers: Tracy Beene, Molly Fraust Wylie, and Melissa Bacon
Motherland: Episode Three
One in five women will experience a mental or behavioral health challenge in the postpartum period of pregnancy. Tune in this week on The Yarn's maternal health storytelling series as we follow the stories of three incredible women.
The episode, Ritika Gann, Jasmine Gipson, and Taylor Musgrove share their true lived experiences. Happy listening!
Motherland: Episode Two
Join us for episode two of The Yarn's maternal health storytelling series, as we follow three women through their incredible birthing journeys. Themes include postpartum anxiety and the drastically different experiences of giving birth in rural areas of the US and abroad.
Storytellers include Jodi Seabolt, Diane Taylor, and Annette Kutilek.
Motherland: Episode One
The Yarn is intent on amplifying voices, building understanding, and creating space for human connection. In its series Motherland, The Yarn shares stories of women's journeys - their challenges and triumphs - with fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum depression and anxiety, and more.
The first episode in our series explores themes of finding strength and connection in the most extreme circumstances, the heartbreaking challenges of trying to conceive, and overcoming unbeatable odds. Our three storytellers are Lisa Thorpe, Louise Keithley, and Nora Simmons.
Motherland: Episode Two

The Yarn is intent on amplifying voices, building understanding, and creating space for human connection. In its series Motherland, The Yarn shares stories of women's journeys - their challenges and triumphs - with fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum depression and anxiety, and more.
The first episode in our series explores true stories from three women: Diana Taylor, Jodi Seabolt, and Annette Kutilek.
The Yarn Presents: The Growing Season
Scary Stories Told Live Part 2
This October The Yarn gathered some of the spookiest stories from central Arkansas storytellers and they performed them live from the South on Main Stage. This is part 2 of a 2 part series.