We had an awesome group of first time tellers at our July slam. Congrats to Billy Boggs who won this month’s slam with his story, “How to Dispose of a Cat.”

The next slam will be in September. The theme will be “Schooled- stories of lessons learned” Check back for the exact date.

Billy Boggs' winning story earned him a free meal at McGee's Irish Pub!

Our next slam will be at 7pm Monday, July 12th at McGee’s Irish Pub (116 West Orr Street, Anderson,SC).
This month we will feature some fresh faces who will make their first trip to the Anderson Story Slam stage.

You’re advised to make reservation- the tables fill up fast! Call McGee’s to save your place: (864) 261-6401

Michelle Buscher represented the Anderson Story Slam at the National Story Slam in Chicago on June 13, 2010. She made us look good by placing second runner up among some tough competition from around the county! Thanks Michelle!

You can hear her story (as well as the story from the first runner up in the audience favorite category, Regie from SpeakeasyDC) here:

Eight Forty-Eight – Web Extra: More Tales from Story Slam.

The next story slam will be at 7p.m. Monday, July 12th at McGee’s Irish Pub in Anderson,SC. Reservations at reccomended. Call McGee’s at 864.261.6401.

If you’d like to tell a story, please take a look at our guidelines and send me a message here.

Guidelines for story slam stories:

Your story should:

be a personal and true (though,embellishments are welcome)

be told without notes have a beginning, middle, & end (It’s best to stick to one event rather than tell us ‘all about your childhood’.)

be 5-7 minutes long (We might not kick you off the stage, but we could lose interest. Make sure your story has a point- then get to it.)

Hope to see you all in July!

Thanks, Marie

When we started all this, our hope was that the story slam would build community. In this year we’ve seen that it takes a whole lot of community to build the story slam.

Sure, we had an idea, but that’s wasn’t enough.
We needed a charismatic MC to move things along smoothly.
We needed an awesome location with super-cool owners & staff (and great beer)
We needed willing story tellers (to my amazement they always show up and blow us away!)
We needed a devoted audience (and boy are you guys devoted!)
We needed friends of friends of friends to spread the word

When we put all the pieces of that puzzle together it worked!

We now know our old friends better than ever-we learned that David Gamble can smoke out a rat, Sarah Curnow once had a thing for Forenza, and Kim Lee will talk about ANYthing in front of a crowd.

And we have made new friends who we wouldn’t have met without the vehicle of the slam.

And we have laughed. A lot.
Laughing with a room full of people just brings about a feeling that is warm & fuzzy, all peace & love (though it could have been the Hobgoblin and hard cider  :)

We imagine many of members of the audience have had a similar experiences. At our last slam, the room was so full that a waitress had to put one couple at a table with complete strangers. By the end of the night  all those strangers were talking together like friends.
THAT’S what it’s all about!

(And it’s spreading- one night we had folks from three different towns come check us out because they want to start a story slam in their area. pretty cool!)

Paul THE MAN (of the cloth) Frey, was last night’s Grand Slam winner! He captivated the audience with his cautionary tale of “Children’s Church” gone wrong.

This is why you need a reservations for the story slam- look at that crowd! :

We’ve been story slamming for almost a year now! Can you believe it?

Our one-year celebration story slam will be at 6:30pm Monday, May 3rd at McGee’s Irish Pub.

Come out to hear stories from some of our previous winners and audience favorites.

Congrats to David Gamble! His story  of blowing up rats on his daddy’s farm won him his second Slam Champ award!

David Gamble wins!

Our next slam will be at 7p.m. May 3rd at McGee’ Irish Pub.

Our next story slam will be Monday, March 1st at McGee’s Irish Pub. We’ll begin 6:30ish (seems we never really get started till 7)

The Theme will be “And then I woke up- stories that seem like you’re in a dream”.

Sign up here to tell a story. Stories should be quick (5-8 minutes) & personal (true,or pretty close to true).

Winner gets a free dinner at McGee’s!

You can also come prepared to tell a six word story. Just six words- anybody can do that,right? Best one wins a free drink!

Here’s the winning entry from our January slam:

Honey are you sitting? It’s triplets… (by Amy Cavendar)

Congrats to Michelle Buscher whose story of butt-turned-sled won her dinner for two at McGee’s Irish Pub!

All of this month’s story tellers did an excellent job and our six-word story contest brought some great audience participation!

We also said goodbye to Max, who will soon be seeking adventure (and no doubt, telling lots of stories) in South Dakota. We’ll miss you Max!

Max tells his last Anderson Story Slam story...