Congratulations to Matt McDunnell, who won our 2023 Grand Slam. Matt 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 Truth Be Told.

Thank you to the Appell Center for the Performing Arts, who have hosted all eight of our annual Grand Slams in the beautiful Capitol Theatre.

Thank you to 2016 Grand Slam champ Brad Jennings, who emceed this year’s event.

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

2023 has been our eighth season of live storytelling events. Since 2016, we’ve welcomed more than 5,850 attendees and have had more than 850 names in the hat. That’s 850 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 2024, and we’ll return to Archetype Pizza for another season.

In the meantime, click here to hear the stories from the Grand Slam.