So Say We All is a 501c3 non-profit literary and performing arts organization whose mission is to help people tell their stories, and tell them better, through creating performance opportunities, educational offerings, and accessible media forums.
So Say We All is a 501c3 non-profit literary and performing arts organization whose mission is to help people tell their stories, and tell them better, through creating performance opportunities, educational offerings, and accessible media forums.
You ever look to the heavens (or the hells, we don’t judge) and demand meaning? Then So Say We All’s first open-mic Long Story Short of 2026 is for you. Come join us and tell your true, five-minute stories on this month’s theme. Maybe the answer will finally come to you.
Anyone who’s ever said “A watched pot never boils” clearly doesn’t understand thermodynamics. Or maybe they just don’t understand being really, really hungry for spaghetti. Come join us for stories of arriving to that boiling point in life—when everything gets so heated and agitated that it all bubbles up and spills over and OH GOD IT’S EVERYWHERE … wait … is that a bowl of spaghetti? Never mind.
You ever find yourself at one of those intersections where the lights are red in BOTH directions and you start wondering why you’re wasting your time sitting there? There’s not even any cars coming. You could just run it. No one’s looking. Least of all a cop. You gonna do it? You should do it. What are you waiting for? By the way this is one giant metaphor about how you should muster your courage and grab the mic at February’s Long Story Short. Now hit the gas, would you?
Now, as much as we’d like an entire show dedicated to eating things that are either horrendously unpalatable or simply unfit for human consumption, keep in mind that VAMP themes are meant to inspire you to get those little fingies of yours typeity-typing on those keyboards, guys. February’s show is about the unacceptable, the unpreferable, and the unwise. So what’s that mean to you? Hit up the submission link and send us what you got.
Hey, how about a night of open-mic storytelling on the topic of striking it rich in the luck department?
Or maybe you didn’t get so lucky. Sometimes you say “lucky me” in the ironic sense, when the actual thing that happened to you was you punctured a tire driving home from a s****y day at work. In any case, may luck be with you when you take the stage.
Frankly we’re not sure if we can even justifiably use the phrase “The grass is greener on the other side” when it’s THIS hard to break into the housing market. That would be just mean, right? But hey, envy hits all of us eventually. You look at what someone else has and you covet it. Desire it. Devise an elaborate plan to get it.
Even the best of us get hoodwinked every once in a while. Or every twice in a while. Fine ok, I fall for it every time.
Come join us and take the mic for your true, five-minute stories about those times when you just completely fell for it.
Don’t ask us why it’s wet. We certainly don’t know why it’s wet. But maybe over the course of a riveting ten minutes at the VAMP microphone, you might discover exactly why it’s wet. All we know is, we can’t wait to find out.
