Moth-Style Storytelling and Creative Nonfiction: Driving Directions and Polaroids

By Olga Katsovskiy

Participating in workshops often gives me the extra push I need to work on my writing, and observing other instructors in action helps me refine my own teaching philosophy, so I recently took a class geared towards The Moth StorySLAM style of storytelling. Going in, I assumed creative nonfiction translates well into telling true stories on stage.

The Moth StorySLAM format allows storytellers 5-minutes in the limelight to tell a personal story. While those of us in the...