The spontaneous story slammers who drop their name at every show have scattered their seed randomly throughout the season. At SLAMMER OF THE YEAR, standout story picks from our latest flagship and late-night seasons gathered together like freshly harvested baskets of fruit. Studio guides Jessica Holmes and Patti O'Hara each cultivated teams of five top-ranked story slammers to lead them to market. They first take turns planting seeds on the prompt SOW. Then the audience voted one team's crop of stories through to harvest on the theme REAP. At the end of the show, only one storyteller blooms fully with the winning title of Slammer of the Year.

Positively shameless, the adults-only black sheep of our storytelling family with true stories told live. Hosted by Alisha Donahue Musical Guests: The Mall Dark Moths Featuring: Jaymie Hogg Ryan Donahue Arden Vermillion

Positively shameless, the adults-only black sheep of the storytelling family recorded live in the Women's Ward at the Old Idaho Penitentiary. Hosted by Alisha Donahue with guest musicians The East Carter Lane Warriors Featuring: Anna Dillon Dylan Hass Jynx Jenkins

As part of our 15th Anniversary season we revisited a previous theme from 2015- MY OWN PRiVATE iDAHO: Stories of Wild States Hosted by our OG Host, Jessica Holmes with DJ Wendy Fox Featuring: Nikson Matthews Lisa Sanchez Christian Winkle

FEATURING: Karen Cuellar- following the leader almost proves murderous Steve Bunk- making career moves like a BiSHOP Alice Thompson- a father who is not quite in the BiSHOP's seat and special guest Amelia Berg, the Executive Director of The BiSHOP's House Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger with guest musicians from Sangha Taiko drumming group

FEATURING: Kris Query- when not to be a KNiGHT in shining armor Andrew Nemr- KNiGHTED by Gregory Hines, but still encounters a dark KNiGHT Michael Zabel- gets into his SUiT of armor Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger Guest Musicians: The Biotzetik Basque Choir

True stories inspired by the theme "PAWN" told live by the people who lived them. Curated stories intermixed with a community story slam. Featuring Martha Channer and Richard Rachman.

True stories inspired by the theme "ROOK" told live by the people who lived them. Curated stories intermixed with a community story slam. Featuring: Cami Nichols trapped in a tower. Joey Maxey gets rooked. Brig Van Osten strategizes in a reality television assault. Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger with musical guests Alex Sjobeck, piano & Derek Ganong, trumpet

True stories inspired by the theme "KiNG" told live by the people who lived them. Curated stories intermixed with a community story slam. with guest host George Prentice and music by the Jewish Elvis, Boise's Neil Diamond (as performed by Guy Finley) If you'd like to see the stories in addition to hearing them, you will find this episode at https://youtu.be/S6UIHk08fY8

STORiES ARE STRANGE Late-Night is stranger. Plotlines turn risqué on this microphone. Wording leans wicked when you’re uncensored. Black sheep, it’s your season, come on down. After the end of our OUTDOORS series, the positively shameless Story Story Late-Night heads iNDOORS to play at the adults-only Visual Arts Collective. With shows themed like a Jim Morrison live bootleg EP—starring featured storytellers intermixed with an open story slam—can you still recall the time you tried to break on through to the other side? Rated R to XXX, what happens at Late-Night, stays at Late-Night…until we put it on our podcast. You know that it will be all true. You know that there will be no liars. If you were to say your truth, these shows couldn’t get much higher. Featuring Alice Nelson Val St. Claire Lindsey Walters with guest musician Thomas Paul & Friends Hosted by Beth Norton

Featuring Jahziel Maldonado Sarah Jensen Yvonne McCoy and a special appearance by Coco Freeo CHECK iT, MATE In the game of life, are you playing 4D chess or losing a game of checkers? Checkmate. Stalemate. Blundering your way through? Whether you’ve made all the right or all the wrong moves, you’re winning the storytelling game across the board. Way to rack up the aura points. Get your Bobby Fischer wits about you, and check (out) the 15 th anniversary season of Story Story Night. With true stories on PAWN to KiNG themes—starring featured storytellers mixed with an open storyslam—it’s a 200 IQ move. YOUR TURN? Our true stories are like a chess contest. You’ve got the opening, middlegame, and endgame—and no matter how much strategy we think we’ve devised—every turn is a surprise. Be featured this season by sharing your story moves to story@storystorynight.org. If you'd like to see the storytellers, check this podcast out on the Story Story Night YouTube channel. Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger Musical Guest Darian Renee

LiGHT MY FiRE hosted by Beth Norton with guest musician Cigarette Speedway Featuring: Murphy Woodhouse Anna Demetriades Ian Yearsley Produced by Jodi Eichelberger STORiES ARE STRANGE Late-Night is stranger. Plotlines turn risqué on this microphone. Wording leans wicked when you’re uncensored. Black sheep, it’s your season, come on down. Rated R to XXX, what happens at Late-Night, stays at Late-Night…until we put it on our podcast. You know that it will be all true. You know that there will be no liars. If you were to say your truth, these shows couldn’t get much higher. With featured storytellers intermixed with an uncensored story slam, what happens at Late-Night, stays at Late-Night…until we put it on our podcast. Sponsored by Beaux Glow

Positively shameless, the adults-only black sheep of the storytelling family is back with shows recorded outdoors in a walled garden. ODD ONES, COME ON OUT Some roast marshmallows in the summer. At the adults-only Story Story Late-Night, we roast ourselves by airing the positively shameless true stories of our lives on an out-there theme. Starring featured storytellers mixed up with an open story slam. Live on an outdoor stage. Without notes—or bleeped out words. Camp out on the yard of the Women’s Ward of the Old Pen to hear wild, freak of nature stories from the black sheep of the storytelling family. Full exposure. Because what happens at Late-Night, stays at Late-Night (until we put it on our podcast). OUT THE CLOSET DOOR Featuring: Richard Rachman Amos Rothstein and Jean Cardeno with guest musician Ashley Rose hosted by Beth Norton

Like its sky-high counterpart, THE BiG DiPPER features seven leading lights spanning the seven regions of our state. Each storyteller takes a brilliant angle on this Idaho life. All told, connect the dots for a glowing overarching impression of this Gem of a place. Get your stargazing on. STARRY-TELLERS: Blair Williams (Coeur d'Alene) CMarie Fuhrman (McCall and Frank Church Wilderness) Darren Parry (Preston) Jessica Joy Harned (Boise) Michael Riley (Potlatch and Craters of the Moon) Reilly Hoy (Twin Falls) Ted Stout (Picabo and Craters of the Moon) Presented by Story Story Night Directed and edited by Jodi Eichelberger Music performed by the Classical Queens Quartet Music composed by Cassidy Robinson Musical track by Jün Campion Sponsors | The Idaho Humanities Council, Boise City Department of Arts & History, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Idaho, The Modern Hotel, Radio Boise

Hosted by Beth Norton Featuring Angela Baylis Moses Mukengezi & Natalia DiGiosia with musical guest E.L. Anderson

Hosted by Beth Norton Guest Musician & Cowboy Poet Sam Mattise Featuring Alex Abel, Mya Long, and Jay Krajic

With featured storytellers intermixed with an uncensored story slam, what happens at Late-Night, stays at Late-Night…until we put it on our podcast. PEOPLE ARE STRANGE Featuring Katie Gaston, Ben Kemper, and Isabelle Shifrin with guest musicians the New American Slovak Kitchen Band

iT’S STORY GAME TiME The highs and lows of human experience? We’re here for it. So are the spontaneous story slammers who drop their name in the hat at every show. At SLAMMER OF THE YEAR, standout story picks from our latest flagship and late-night seasons get up to get down on the theme CHUTES & LADDERS. Studio guides Jessica Holmes and Leta Harris Neustaedter each champion teams of five top-ranked story slammers to make points on the games people play. (It’s like truth or consequences IRL.) They’ll first take turns sliding into plot twists on the prompt CHUTES. Then one team moves to the last rung for an elimination round that plays up LADDERS. When the game’s over, only one storyteller scores the winning title of Slammer of the Year. Talk about an all-time high. You game? Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger Music by Marimba Boise Featuring: Team Chutes (championed by Jessica Holmes) Christopher Ingels (from THE GREAT OUTDOORS) Caroline Johnson (from OUT THE BACK DOOR) Mitch Kuhn (from OUT THE CLOSET DOOR) Kenneth Paul (from FAST FORWARD) Michael Zabel (from OUT THE CLOSET DOOR) Team Ladders (championed by Leta Harris Neustaedter) Carrie Applegate (from PLAY) Katie Battazzo(HUMBLE PiE) Allison Ginn (from PLAY) Mindy Hackler (from HUMBLE PiE) Jacob Smith (from STOP)

Stories from Boise's Deaf Community. Hosted by Timothy Blonsky, President of Idaho Association of the Deaf. James Castle was born deaf, and, while he attended Idaho’s school for deaf and blind children, he never became proficient in reading, writing, or a conventional means of communication. Even so, Castle was clearly passionate about language and communication, and created a large number of works investigating letters, signs, and symbols assembled into dizzying and ever-changing combinations. One of these is his combination of the words "Purse" and "Discusses," which individually don't mean what we think they do and yet, collectively, the piece does communicate. In honor of James Castle's creative ways of connecting, we celebrate the stories of our incredible deaf community on the back porch of his former house. Tim Blonsky, president of the Idaho Association of the Deaf , will host three featured storytellers intermixed with a community story slam (which is open to all to share on the theme). Featuring: Mikkel Nelson Jo Ann Dobecki Shopbell Sonny Cabbage Interpreted for the deaf and hard-of-hearing by LaVona Andrew Carson and Holly Thomas-Mowery Produced by Jodi Eichelberger

We conclude our series of stories inspired by the button on an old tape recorder and pop out our tape with stories inspired by the EJECT button. And our 14th Birthday show! Featuring Janet Lo Al Youngwerth Ginger Ragan Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger Musical Guest The Boise Chorus