Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: storytelling

  • All-Star Night (Part 2):
    Finding Hysteria with Stephanie Wytovich

    Welcome back! Just in time to start the New Year off with a little hysteria. Yesterday’s post featured Owen Kilbane and his story about discovering the powers of music in attracting the opposite sex. If you missed it, you will definitely want to go back and check it out. Here’s a link. Owen’s performance was…

  • All-Star Night:
    When Scops Come Out to Shine

    scop (skop)  — n (in Anglo-Saxon England) a bard or minstrel In addition to being an entertainer who composed and performed his own works, the scop served as a kind of historian and preserver of the oral tradition […].  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. If Riley’s Pour House is continuing the tradition of the Anglo-Saxon meed-hall by…

  • Spotlight on All-Star Storytellers:
    Marlene Pendleton

    Only seven more scopping days till All-Star Story Night, and, if you’re still wondering what to get that special someone, you might want to check out the limited edition Tri-Lax Chair (pictured below). It’s an inspired piece of German engineering, and it’s also the subject of a story that Marlene Pendleton will be telling when she returns to…

  • Spotlight on All-Star Storytellers:
    Larry Ivkovich

    It’s almost here. Not Christmas. Not New Year’s Eve. I’m talking All-Start Storytelling, the event that will feature this year’s top storytellers from Story Night @ Riley’s Pour House. With fewer than two weeks to go to the event, I’d like to begin highlighting some of the storytellers who will be appearing at our year-end competition.…

  • Aberrations: Flash Fiction for the Ears

    Since launching this blog a few years ago, I’ve written a bit about the art of storytelling and flash fiction. Along the way, I’ve posted a few samples from Aberrations,  a  radio demo featuring stories from Visions: Short Fantasy & SF and This Way to Egress. Now, while preparing a couple audio samples to promote the…

  • Mannequins, Back to School &
    Short-Short Stories @ Riley’s

    Last week, I posted a preview of the short-short story and flash fiction event that will be rolling into Riley’s Pour House on September 30. That event is already shaping up to be one of the most exciting Storytelling Nights yet, so — if you haven’t seen the post (which includes Michael A. Arnzen’s story…