HUMANS! Welcome to the In a Nutshell Storytelling Newsletter and Podcast
In a Nutshell Storytelling can be seen LIVE every month at the beautiful Sofia Theatre in Sacramento. Get your tickets here:
Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on monthly themes and featured storytellers, and listen to our new podcast, PROMPT: a podcast for people who love stories. We also host a monthly open mic story swap called WILDCARD! at Old Soul The Alley, perfect if you want to try your hand at storytelling.
All subscribers get:
monthly newsletter highlighting our four featured storytellers
access to Prompt: which includes a recording of a story told at our live event and a discussion with the storyteller behind it
any updates on Nutshell, Prompt: and WILDCARD!
lots of love and appreciation
more coming
If you love stories and storytelling as much as we do, a paid subscription might be right up your alley! Paid subscribers get:
all the stuff above, plus
a thank you card delivered via real mail!
an extended conversation with Prompt: guests
exclusive bonus Prompt: episodes (coming soon)
more fun stuff coming soon
lots of love and appreciation
Most importantly—do you realize we pay the storytellers who grace our stage? It’s true, and we pay them quite well. But we’d love to pay them more because, well, it’s THRILLING to compensate artists for their creative work! Seriously. So the more storytelling enthusiasts like you can support efforts like ours—places that aim to bring art and connection to our community—the more we can invest in the people making all the wonderful art. Your paid subscription directly helps artists and creatives fund events like In a Nutshell Storytelling, and increases the amount we pay the artists so they can keep creating the art and connections we all truly need.
Do you love paying artists for their work? A paid subscription to In a Nutshell Storytelling increases how much we can pay storytellers to tell their stories! How awesome is that?
The Nutshell Crew:
Keith Lowell Jensen is the best host a live show could ever hope for, plus a sharp, witty, and subversive comedian who just happens to also tell fantastic stories. Keith is writing his fourth novel and sharing it here on Substack, so go show the guy some love. In the form of eyeballs. Yes, he wants your eyeballs.
Amy Bee is aces at managing all the behind-the-scenes Nutshell dirty work, and is a memoirist, book editor, failed thru-hiker, and wannabe storyteller. She’s updating her Substack to reflect the strange turn her life has taken, so go take a peek and say Hi—she will both love and hate it.
Aaron Carnes, aka Moneybags or Monkey Wrangler, is an author, journalist, and podcaster who keeps everything at Nutshell running smoothly—documents stamped, checks signed, appointments kept—making his two neurodivergent partners appear way more professional and mature than they really are. Aaron is working on his third book—a speculative novel!—and sharing updates about it here on Substack. Someone should give this guy some accolades. He defended all of ska, for gosh's sake!
We’re just three friends who want nothing more than to bring humans laughter, insight, and the full range of emotion from the absolute best live storytellers in the universe—that’s all.
Come and get what you need, human! You deserve to connect, reflect, and celebrate the power of live storytelling. You are welcome here!
Love,
