Spadefoot Story Slam

05/14/2026

Our next story slam is coming up this Saturday, 6pm Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative!

Theme: POSTAGE

Tell us about your most prized stamp collection, visiting the National Postal Museum for the first time, your first memory of a pen pal or longest pen pal correspondence, care packages, the story behind the holiday greeting card photo, run ins with postal workers, love stories for the post office, sending and receiving mail, mailbox motels, and why we should . This month we're going postal!

Rules: Stories must be true as remembered by you the storyteller. Stories must be spoken from the heart, not off the page.

04/14/2026

04/14/2026

Alamosa Public Library
Some of our books are moving to new homes!
We want to make sure interested people can find and use these
wonderful books, so they are moving to some local research
institutions. Find these books - and many more - at:

The Nielsen Library
The Luther Bean Museum
The San Luis Valley History Museum
and The Crestone Historical Museum

What’s in the future for this room?
*Expanded meeting and event space.
*Maker equipment and digitization lab.

03/31/2026

In preparation for this month's slam, check out this podcast interview with Amy Engle & Ryan Scavo talking all about the Resilience Rising project

Resilience Rising Together, We Rise Stronger.Resilience Rising: Community-Powered Mental Wellness Resilience Rising is a new initiative of the Rio Grande Hospital Wellness Center—using creativity, storytelling, and connection to break down stigma and support mental wellness across the San Luis Val...

03/24/2026

I’m so excited to offer another Write It Out Day Retreat with The Church Project! If you missed it in February, or if you made it in February, we’re doing it again on May 2nd from 8am to 5pm!

This is a day filled with guided and solo activities designed to support you in finding focus and to provide dedicated writing time. The day will have a mix of group and solo time, and plenty of prompts and writing activities to inspire you. In addition, you’ll have the option for a 20 minute one-on-one session with me, to talk through your project!

Breakfast, lunch, tea, coffee, and snacks are all provided and we’re offering this on a sliding scale of $80-$100. You can register at the link in my bio, and please let me know if you have questions!

03/24/2026

Save the date! The 10th Annual Taos Writers Conference will be held Friday July 24 - Sunday July 26, 2026. ✍️ Hope to see you there ✍️
https://somostaos.org/taos-writers-conference/schedule/

10/27/2025

Join us for the LAST Story Slam of the 2025 season, Saturday 11/15, 6 PM at Narrow Gauge Book Coop. Prepare a story about customs and practices. Birthrights and rituals. Friday night football or family face time each Sunday. Chinese food on Christmas Day or a New Year's leap into the ocean. Bar mitzvahs, quinceañeras, first piercings, or tattoos. Planting a tree for the birth of a child. Creating your own or following the ones that came before. Tell us about a time you broke with the past, a time you created a new tradition, a time doing things the old way didn't work. Stories must be true, as remembered by you, and told from the heart, not off the page.

10/14/2025

10/07/2025

This October, join us for your stories on AFTERMATH. Prepare a story about consequences. Aftershocks and fallout. The morning after! Indelible grins! Walks of shame! Assessing the wreckage from the storm. After the dust has settled, the decision to rehash or relinquish! Next move? Tell us about a time you had to wait for the dust to settle, a time you suffered the consequences, a time you had to face the music.

We encourage, always, creative interpretation of the theme. ​​

Stories should be true as remembered by you, and spoken from the heart, instead of read from the page. We don’t have an official time limit, but encourage stories that take 10 minutes or less, especially if we have a large group. We look forward to seeing you on October 18th at 6pm.

08/22/2025

Put this on your calendar!!!

“The Regiment Poetry Slam,” readings and performance, will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28 at the ASU Theatre building