Congratulations to Mina Edmondson, who won our 2019 Grand Slam. Mina competed with the other winners from this year's monthly open mic story slams and earned the title of Best Storyteller in York. The theme for the evening was NO REGRETS.

Mina is pictured here with our Master of Ceremonies, 2016 Grand Slam champion Brad Jennings.

Watch all the videos from the Grand Slam here.

In the meantime, we'd like to extend huge thanks to KBG Injury Law for sponsoring this year's Grand Slam. We are also grateful to work with an excellent team of vendors throughout the year to produce our events and archive the stories: our photographers - most frequently, Maddie Crocenzi; sound guy/audio engineer extraordinaire Logan Summey of Rock Mill Industries; videographer Randy Flaum; and Carla at Wilson Media Services, who produces our monthly podcast (subscribe for free in iTunes!). We also thank Holy Hound Taproom for giving us a home throughout the year and Appell Center for the Performing Arts for making it possible for us to host our Grand Slam in such a beautiful space.

Thank you to everyone who showed up this year to listen, and everyone who bravely put their names into the hat to share stories. As we shared at the Grand Slam, there were more than 100 names in the hat this year, and nearly 500 since we began in 2016. We are honored to provide a space for people to share true, personal stories.

We won’t have a story slam event in December – we'll be busy planning for next year. We'll continue to host our monthly events on the third Tuesday of the month at Holy Hound in 2020.