The Florida Story Slam Competition is coming to the annual Florida Storytelling Festival on Saturday, January 24, 2026. The stage will be open 10:15 pm – 11:30 pm so bring a tale to tell and compete for cash prizes!
Here’s all you need to know:
Story Slam
- Theme: … stay tuned for the announcement … coming soon …
- 5-minute time limit
- All story genres welcome, including personal story and folk tale.
- Telling order determined by random drawing
- Show up and put your name in the “hat”
- We draw names until we run out of time.
- Cash Prizes
- First Place: $100
- Second Place: $75
- Third Place: $50
- Winners determined by selected judges in the audience
- Each judge assigns a score
- Deductions for going over time limit