The 2023 People’s Choice Storytelling Contest will take place on March 25, 2023 at 4:30pm EASTERN, both in-person at The Old Town Hall in Fairfax, VA, as well as streaming live online. This page is only for purchasing a virtual ticket to watch the online story contest, and only the story contest. If you’d like to attend the festival in-person, you can purchase a full weekend or day of pass with the link below. Or if you’d like to watch the full festival online, you can click the link below for that as well.
The 7 storytellers competing in the 2023 People’s Choice Storytelling Contest at the Women’s Storytelling Festival are: Lona Bartlett, Julie Bradshaw, Bette Lou Higgins, Robin Kitson, Teri Lott, Gwendolyn Napier, and Stacy Parish!
Read more about the contest and the storytellers here!
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PLEASE NOTE: If you purchase a Virtual Story Contest ONLY Ticket, you will only receive a link to watch and vote in the 2023 People’s Choice Storytelling Contest. If you purchase a virtual or in-person FULL 2023 Women’s Storytelling Festival ticket, you will still be able to watch and vote in the Story Contest, but you will also have access to the rest of the festival events that your ticket covers. (A virtual FULL festival ticket gives you access to the entire festival live stream and recordings for one month.)
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THE CONTEST DETAILS
• The People’s Choice Storytelling Contest will take place in-person, at The Old Town Hall in Fairfax City, VA, on Saturday, March 25, 2023, at 4:30pm Eastern. Like the rest of the festival, we will be live-streaming the contest, and ticket holders will also have one month to watch the recording.
• Each storyteller will have 7 minutes, with a 1-minute grace period. Any story that runs longer than 7 minutes and 59 seconds will be disqualified.
• The story can be any style. You are not limited to personal stories in this contest. The theme is “Perseverance.” However, it must be a spoken word story, performed orally, from memory.
• JUDGING will be based on audience votes combined with the judges’ scores. Our judges for the 2023 festival are Sheila Arnold and Noa Baum! Both the in-person audience and virtual audience votes will be counted. The audience, in-person or online, can only vote during the show.
• The Winner Winner Chickpea Dinner. The second-place winner will receive $50. The first-place winner will receive $100 and an invitation to perform at the 2024 Women’s Storytelling Festival. Not placing does not disqualify anyone from being invited to perform in the 2024 festival.
