Category: Storytelling News
This month, we’ve taken to celebrating boundaries and our ability to define spaces.

To be the first to find out what Duo and Bonnie did, you’ll have to come to the show tonight. (Those who can’t make the show will be able to read their stories on Friday.)
A Month Of
Stage 773
1225 West Belmont
7:30 Food
8:00 Stories
$10 or Free
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This weekend we will be at Eco hosting a Story Luck style open mic with three guest features.
Story Luck
Saturday July 26th
Eco
2042 W 21st Street, Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608
9:30-10:30
Tickets are available here!
And here is the Facebook invite with full details: Edible Alchemy Hosts Feastival at Eco
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This month’s theme is “Genius: Be an Inventor.” Unfortunately for me, no genius source of inspiration came readily, until I stopped wracking my brain for ways to make something original and new. I’m going to try to borrow from one of the oldest tropes associated with “The Genius” – as someone who games the system, …
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For “A Month of Gaslighting,” I went fishing for babies in the Chicago river.
What do you catch with babies, you ask?
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… pretend you never failed.
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I used to help out with a comics studio called Sunbros Studios, and this year for the comics convention C2E2 I returned to the booth with Beijing opera-style Monkey King face paint, to emulate the main character of their book Monkey Fist (an adaptation of the Journey to the West tale). Afterwards, I met up …
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Join us on Wed. the 13th where will discover all about maps through our special round table storytelling open Mic.
A Month Of… Maps.
This month I worked with Lynda Joy, Alexander, Bonnie Fan, and a slew of strangers to tackle the group task: Create your own Map. We built this map
This is the finished product.

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This week, I’m going to highlight a piece of writing that was done for A Month Of… Moving On: Destroy something of Sentimental Value. This was written by Jacqueline Brogdon. Who worked for us last summer and runs a great travel blog. This task, and this show proved to be my favorite A Month Of… …
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Storytelling links of the week! Each Monday we will be posting a week’s worth of Storytelling links to peruse and digest. These links will be a curated by various members of the Story Luck team and will represent a wide range of genera. The only criteria for these picks is that they be about narrative, …
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Join us!
A Month Of… Love Connection
Every 2nd Wed of the Month!
7:30 Food
8:00 Show
Free!
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Below you’ll find this month’s poem on the topic. Poems are written by Allison Barrett.
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