Dispatches from the Moth
Explore interviews, storytelling tips, playlists and other Mothy fun curated by our staff and community.
Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Jan 06, 2014
by Jenifer Hixson, Senior Producer
Happy 2014, storytellers! We’re so happy to see a new StorySLAM take root and some older ones fully blossom.
First, we’re VERY excited to announce that we’ll be starting a brand new StorySLAM in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia. The Moth StorySLAM is a showcase for true stories from everyday folks. Heroes and hell-raisers, students, grandpas, insurance agents and truck drivers–people from all corners are welcome. Philly has a thriving storytelling scene and we can’t wait to join in...
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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Dec 20, 2013
by George Dawes Green
This past Monday, we held our first ever High School Grand Slam, featuring ten high school students from around New York City. George Dawes Green, our founder, reflects on the night. The first name called was Willa. When she approached the mike she seemed a little shy, as most high school girls would be before a microphone and a couple of hundred classmates and parents and teachers and Moth staff and Moth friends and Moth addicts.
She was nervous. We were all nervous. It was the first Moth...
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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Oct 13, 2013
by The Moth Staff
What is your favorite Moth story?
This year the 10,000th story graced our stages. Sometimes heartbreaking, at other times hilarious, each story offers insights into our lives. Collectively they form a unique record of the voices of our time.
And you make this all possible. Thanks to your support we will produce 270 shows across the country this year, with millions more listeners enjoying Moth stories through our public radio show and podcast.
But The Moth’s own story...
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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Aug 28, 2013
by Jenifer Hixson, Senior Producer
Houston and New Orleans story lovers and storytellers, heads up! The Moth StorySLAM, our open mic celebration of local stories is taking root in Texas and Louisiana. Come to listen or come to share… hopefully both!
The Moth StorySLAM is a showcase for true stories from every day folks. Heroes and hell-raisers, students, grandpas, insurance agents and truck drivers–people from all corners are welcome. Ex-cons, nurses, tax lawyers, bakers, barbacks or bee keepers. Everyone is...
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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Aug 07, 2013
by The Moth Staff
Dear Moth Friends,
We are thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of the first-ever Moth book: The Moth: 50 True Stories (Hyperion)
Preface by Adam Gopnik, foreward by George Dawes Green, edited and with an introduction by Catherine Burns
For the first time in print, The Moth presents fifty spellbinding, soul-bearing stories selected from our archive. The same magic you’ve witnessed on the stage, now available in our very first book. (The next best thing to having fifty cool...
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