News & Events
Performances, workshops, book releases, and stories from the road
December 10, 2025
December 12, 13 2025 | Family Storytime, and Early Literacy and Storytelling Workshop.
December 12–13, 2025: Heather McNeil leads a family storytime plus early literacy and storytelling workshop for First 5 Siskiyou County in Mt. Shasta.
May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025 | New Book Release - Read Me a Tree, Rhyme Me a Bee
Read Me a Tree, Rhyme Me a Bee by Heather McNeil is here — a nature storytime guide of books and activities for librarians, teachers, and parents.
March 1, 2024
March 1, 2024 | Stories to be told - Rotary Club of Bend
March 1, 2024: storyteller Heather McNeil shares 'Stories to Be Told' with the Rotary Club of Bend at a morning meeting in Central Oregon.
February 6, 2024
Coming in 2025: Read Me a Tree, Rhyme Me a Bee: Nature Books and Activities at Storytime
Coming in 2025: Read Me a Tree, Rhyme Me a Bee, Heather McNeil's new book of nature books and activities for storytime with young children.
February 6, 2024
Monthly storytimes at Mudpies and Lullabies Preschool
Heather McNeil leads monthly storytimes at Mudpies and Lullabies Preschool, bringing books, songs, and early literacy fun to young children in Bend.
December 1, 2023
December, 2023, holiday stories for PEO Chapter AI and EA
December 2023: storyteller Heather McNeil shares holiday stories with PEO Chapters AI and EA in Central Oregon.
December 1, 2023
December, 2023, Winter Solstice storytelling at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon
December 2023: Heather McNeil performs Winter Solstice storytelling at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon in Bend.
October 15, 2021
October 15-17, 2021 | Forest Storytelling Festival. Online.
October 15–17, 2021: Heather McNeil joins the online Forest Storytelling Festival, presented by the Clallam County Story People.
June 21, 2021
June 21, 2021 | Celtic Stories. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Bend, OR
June 21, 2021: storyteller Heather McNeil shares Celtic stories at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bend, Oregon.
January 24, 2021
January 24, 2021 | The Power of Story. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Bend, OR
January 24, 2021: Heather McNeil presents 'The Power of Story' for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon, with a YouTube recording.
May 8, 2020
5-8-2020 | Early Literacy Workshop
May 8, 2020: Heather McNeil leads an early literacy workshop for the Chemeketa Regional Library Service, sharing skills and activities for storytime.
February 21, 2020
February 21, 2020, "Around the Fire: A Storytelling Concert of Warmth and Wit"
February 21, 2020: 'Around the Fire,' a storytelling concert of warmth and wit with Heather McNeil at the UU Fellowship of Central Oregon.
October 30, 2019
10-30-2019 | Stories to Rattle Your Bones
October 30, 2019: Heather McNeil tells 'Stories to Rattle Your Bones' at the Sunriver and Downtown Bend libraries for Deschutes Public Library.
September 30, 2019
Refiring!
Retired librarian Heather McNeil on 'refiring' — trading youth-services management for a new life of storytelling and early literacy workshops.
February 25, 2019
It's Snowing...Books!
Snowed in in Central Oregon, librarian Heather McNeil shares the many books she's reading at once — and why she never reads just one.
February 10, 2019
I Say Airplane, You Say
A toddler's handmade 'butterfly' reminds storyteller Heather McNeil to keep creating, listening, and writing through every rejection.
January 19, 2019
The Book Shelf, or, Why Reading Aloud Really, Really Matters
Heather McNeil reflects on twenty years of reading aloud to her daughter, and why sharing books together really, really matters.
April 20, 2017
April 2017 | Receiving the Evelyn Sibley Lampman Award
April 2017: Heather McNeil receives the Oregon Library Association's Evelyn Sibley Lampman Award for her contribution to youth library service.
May 11, 2014
May 11, 2014 | Named Oregon's Librarian of the Year
May 2014: the Oregon Library Association names Heather McNeil its Librarian of the Year, honoring her youth-services work at Deschutes Public Library.
March 8, 2009
March 8, 2009 | Storytelling & the Craft of Story, First Presbyterian Church, Bend
March 2009: Heather McNeil shares world folktales and the craft of story at First Presbyterian Church in Bend, with a signing of her books.