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Story of the Year 2017, Thank You, and Farewell

December 20, 2017 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

We have a couple things to say – first, we’re excited to announce the nominees for our Story of the Year Contest! The editors picked five stories that were our favorites of the year. These are stories that each showcase the visceral, open nature of live lit and demonstrate how the art of performance is pushing creative nonfiction in exciting new directions. So who wins? It’s up to you. You read, you vote, you decide. Voting takes place now through Monday, January […]

Categories: Brooke Allen, C. Russell Price, Julie Marchiano, Karen Clanton, Théodore Pavlich • Tags: story of the year

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The Six Million Dollar Dog – or, Why we Need to Keep Fighting | Vivian Wagner

March 15, 2017 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

Listen to Vivian’s story below. It was originally performed at Story Club Columbus in front of a live audience. It seemed a fitting end to 2016. On Christmas morning, around 4 AM, my 17-year-old daughter Rose was woken by our little dog Ziggy vomiting profusely around the house. She went back to sleep, but at 6 AM she woke me up to tell me that something was wrong with Ziggy– she suspected he’d eaten a chocolate bar that she’d brought […]

Categories: Story Club Columbus, Vivian Wagner

Good Girls Are | Britt Julious

September 20, 2016 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

I hope Nicole is okay. I hope the weight of being this age at this time doesn’t crush her. I hope her life is easy (much easier than mine) and that she is ascending. Because me, her doppelgänger, was descending, and quickly. “You look really familiar,” people tell me when I’m in public. The longer I live within city limits, the more often I hear this. Whereas at first I assumed it was something white people said to black people […]

Categories: Britt Julious, Story Club North Side

To Have and To Hold | Carly Oishi

June 17, 2015 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

The furniture store is both overwhelming and fun. We’re walking around the perimeter, sitting on couches, and testing out dining chairs. We’ve moved into our fourth apartment together and it feels like we’ve arrived. Maybe it’s that we are officially out of the city. Evanston might only be a CTA ride away, but there is something distinctly suburban about it. He’s going to work from home. I have a new job at Northwestern. Our cats love to run up and down the […]

Categories: Carly Oishi, Story Club North Side

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Dizzying Downward Spiral | Bill Drew

September 16, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

When the tactical squad raided my basement apartment on 32nd and May in February of 1985, they discovered a baseball-sized rock of cocaine.

Categories: Bill Drew, Story Club South Side

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On the American Side | Dana Jerman

September 9, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

In mid-fall of the year 2003, my then-boyfriend, Kent, and I go to Niagara Falls to try, for closure’s sake, to pinpoint the place where his father jumped in. September of the year before, his dad got into the family mini-van, starting it with a key attached to a “Jesus Loves Me” keychain, and drove away from his home in Buffalo, New York. Putting down the garage door so his wife wouldn’t know right away that he had left, and […]

Categories: Dana Jerman, Story Lab

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Telephony Data and Other Intelligence Failures| Michael Maiello

September 2, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

Your iPhone always knows where it is, but you don’t always. Your cellular service provider always knows where your iPhone is. But you don’t always. The National Security Agency and various other government agencies operating under the rubric of the Directorate of National Intelligence always know where your iPhone is. But you don’t always. IPhones have a way of slipping from my grasp, often in the presence of alcohol or other drugs. They are just so fun to play with […]

Categories: Authors, Lost & Found Show NYC, Michael Maiello, Shows

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Free Fall | Nathalie Lagerfeld

August 20, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

I wasn’t supposed to be in California that summer. I’m the kind of person who immediately forgets all plans I don’t write down. By my junior year of college I had come to rely on a day planner to keep track of every important date. Birthdays, travel plans, summer program application deadlines—the little blue booklet organized them all. The scribbles inside it were especially important to me during my spring semester abroad in Paris. I was thousands of miles away […]

Categories: Essay Fiesta, Nathalie Lagerfeld