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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Sep 14, 2015

Diamante Ortiz: The High School GrandSLAM

by Diamante Ortiz

Hey there, my name is Diamante Ortiz and I am a senior at The Young Women’s Leadership School of Brooklyn and I am a school storyteller thanks to the Moth Educational Program and I had the honor of presenting my story at the New York Public Library for the GrandSlam on June 5th, 2015. The week preparing for the GrandSlam week was utterly mind blowing. That Tuesday, I arrived to The Moth office in Soho and I met 9 other AMAZING, talented and all around terrific storytellers from all around...

Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Sep 02, 2015

Lindsey Mayer: The High School Slam

by Lindsey Mayer

When I stepped into my first Moth meeting, a sheer wave of nerves took over my body. I saw the students in the classroom and they were from all different backgrounds, people that I rarely had a conversation with. I wondered, “How can I trust these semi-strangers with a personal story?” I still look back on what I was thinking that day and I laugh at myself. The Moth has been the most creative and supportive group that I’ve been a part of in high school. The strangers that I met that day...

Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Aug 31, 2015

A Love Letter from London

by Matt Hill

I first heard The Moth in 2008; two days before I lost my job at a national broadcaster. Those two events are not unconnected. My employers were launching a series of radio stations and I was tasked with listening to hours and hours of these new ‘podcast’ shows that people were talking about. I’d trawled through a lot of terrible, terrible shows before I heard The Moth. I loved the fact it was ordinary people, the kind that you never heard in mainstream media, getting...

Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Aug 06, 2015

Story Request Changes

by The Moth

Dear Moth Storytellers, We’re making some changes that will allow us to fill your story requests quicker and to better serve more of The Moth storytelling community. Every Moth show in every city is professionally recorded both in audio and video. For several years now we’ve made it possible for storytellers to order a video of their Moth stories. Since 2013, the amount of requests we’ve received has tripled, and we continue to see the number of requests grow....

Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Jul 16, 2015

GrandSLAM Trophy Design Contest!

by The Moth

Put your creative brain to the test: design The Moth’s first-ever GrandSLAM trophy! Are you skilled in vector design or eager to try a new challenge? Send us your vision for what the Moth GrandSLAM trophy should look like. Our favorite design will receive an honorarium of $200, their work will be featured on our website and their name will be printed on trophies given out to all the 2015 international GrandSLAM winners. The Details: We are looking for...