For six years, Story Shuffle was a regularly organized, live recording of themed stories. In 2017, we closed the project with a podcast. The project is done; Enjoy our archives!
Thirty four years after Voyager II lifted off, reporter Christopher Wink told its story and drew meaning for the space shuttle program and our own vision of ourselves.
Ahead of this Saturday’s Story Shuffle 3.0 Terror taking place in Cedar Park, we thought it prudent to share the work of another West Philadelphia story staple.
Back in August, West Philly gal Juliet Hope Wayne appeared on the Moth podcast.
Updated: This content has been removed at the request of Wayne.
Our friend Aaron Stella won the July 12 First Person Story Slam at World Cafe Live with his entry on ‘Criminal Intent,’ an ‘involuntary public nudity while defecating’ story.
In this four-part video clip series, Ira Glass, the host of This American Life, gives some lessons for storytelling in audio and broadcast.
In this first video, he gives his basics of storytelling.
Below, he also talks about letting go of bad stories, accepting you’ll be bad at first and will be able to tell and that there need to be enough characters in each story you tell, so don’t just speak about yourself.
