Congratulations to Randy Schulz, who won our 2021 Grand Slam. Randy 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 NEXT TIME.

If you missed the livestream event, you can watch the recording by clicking here. We’ll post individual stories on our YouTube channel soon, as well.

We'd like to extend huge thanks to KBG Injury Law for sponsoring our 2021 season. We are also grateful to the Appell Center for the Performing Arts, who have hosted all six of our annual Grand Slams in the beautiful Capitol Theatre.

Thank you to everyone who showed up this year to listen, and everyone who bravely put their names into the hat to share stories.

2021 has been our sixth season of live storytelling events. Since 2016, we’ve welcomed more than 4,575 attendees and have had about 650 names in the hat. That’s 650 true, personal stories shared with neighbors – friends, acquaintances, and strangers – in the safe space York Story Slam provides. Storytelling is a wonderful way to get to know others in your community; to uncover things we have in common and to recognize and better understand our differences. We are honored to provide a platform for people to share true, personal stories.

We won’t have a story slam event in December – we will be putting the finishing touches on next year’s series. We’ll continue to host our monthly events on the third Tuesday of the month in 2022, and we are planning to return to in-person events in a new location. Stay tuned for details!