There is intensified interest in stories and storying across many social sciences, and in how stories may offer and reflect alternative ways of knowing and encountering place. In this introductory chapter, the Storying Geography Collective considers the ways in which stories of place matter and outlines some of the key issues and theories we engage with across this volume. We offer an overview of existing literature from geography and across the social sciences and humanities that engage with the importance of stories and storytelling, particularly in matters relating to environmental and climate justice, more-than-human and place agencies, emotions and embodiment, material struggles, social and epistemological justice, the sovereignty of First Nations Peoples, and transformative politics. We contend with how stories can reinforce existing, oppressive power structures, and dominant ways of being and knowing, and the ethical complexities shaping who can—or should—tell which stories, of where. In Positioning, we locate our Collective in this work of understanding how place and stories matter to each other, and chart an approach to stories for this volume that is attuned to their possibilities and affordances, while attending to the ways power is at work in stories, and the ethical responsibilities of storying place.