{"id":12755,"date":"2019-01-10T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=12755"},"modified":"2019-01-10T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:47:50","slug":"lawstories-on-the-mainstage-a-storytelling-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/lawstories-on-the-mainstage-a-storytelling-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"LawStories on the MainStage &#8211; A Storytelling Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>LawStories on the MainStage<\/em> is a storytelling event open to law students.\u00a0\u00a0Participants are asked to submit a nonfiction narrative of 1000-1500 words melding law, personal experience, and storytelling.\u00a0A panel of judges will select ten stories from among the submissions. Storytellers will be awarded an expense-paid trip to visit to Utah to participate in the MainStage events.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the storytellers will present their stories in a public event to be held at the BYU Law School. Before the presentations, the storytellers will receive a half-day seminar taught by Sam Payne, host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.byuradio.org\/show\/be57d05d-de36-4170-8ae8-5b56c227ff86\/the-apple-seed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Apple Seed<\/a>, a national radio show on storytelling. At the conclusion of the seminar, the storytellers will record their stories for broadcast at the BYU Radio studios. After the campus-based events conclude, the participating storytellers will travel to Moab to visit one of Utah\u2019s iconic national parks.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the competition is availabe on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lawstories.byu.edu\">BYU LawStories website<\/a>. Storytelling training materials, including those contributed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leadershipstorylab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Leadership Story Lab<\/a>, are also available through the <a href=\"http:\/\/lawstories.byu.edu\/2018-conference\/storytelling-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BYU LawStories website<\/a>. Recordings of some of last year\u2019s MainStage storytellers can be found using the same link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Storytelling-Competition.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12756\" src=\"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Storytelling-Competition-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Storytelling-Competition-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Storytelling-Competition-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Storytelling-Competition-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Storytelling-Competition.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LawStories on the MainStage is a storytelling event open to law students.\u00a0\u00a0Participants are asked to submit a nonfiction narrative of 1000-1500&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-writing-competitions"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12757,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755\/revisions\/12757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}