York Story Slam live events take place in downtown York on the third Tuesday of the month at 7 pm. Join us to listen and perhaps share your own story.
You can come and simply listen to other people tell stories, or you can sign up to tell your own story. Storytellers register upon arrival and we'll draw 10 names from a hat to tell their stories according to the following rules:
Story should reflect the theme of that evening
Story should be true to the best of your recollection
Should be your story - you are the/a central character
Story should be about five minutes long
No notes, no props - just you and the microphone
Three judges are chosen from the audience and each storyteller is given scores based on content and presentation. We don’t take the competition part too seriously - it’s all about having a fun night together hearing each other's stories - but the storyteller with the top score at each event wins an exclusive York Story Slam journal set from our friends at Story Supply Co and earns a spot in our Grand Slam at the end of the season.
In addition to the live event, we'll post the stories to our YouTube channel and feature selected stories from each event in our monthly podcast (available for free wherever you get your podcasts). Storytellers must sign a release granting us permission to post their performance in order to participate; they retain all rights to their stories.