Congratulations to Tim McGuinness, who won our 2024 Grand Slam! Tim 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 Good News, and Tim (center) is pictured here with our Grand Slam emcee, David Smith (right), and York Story Slam producer JJ Sheffer (left).

Thank you to the Appell Center for the Performing Arts, who have hosted all nine 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.

2024 has been our ninth season of live storytelling events. Since 2016, we’ve welcomed more than 6,300 attendees and have had more than 930 names in the hat. That’s more than 930 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 2025, and we'll be in a new location. Stay tuned for details!

Click here for videos of all the stories from the Grand Slam.