Nicolette Heavey *Winner* - 3rd place - 2010 Story Slam Season.m4v

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Channel: Norah Dooley · 2010 · Entertainment

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3rd place winner Nicolette Heavey showed how fruitcake can be an essential ingredient in setting family limits. Her  Fruitcake  story won at "dining disasters and while we always knew fruitcake was heavy, she made it funny too.

THE BIG MOUTH OFF  was the final contest in Bostons first story slam season, produced by massmouth  and will be held at 6PM on APRIL 20th 2010 at in the Boston Public Librarys Rabb Auditorium, Copley Square, Boston MA .massmouth has hosted  an exciting series of story slams on the following themes:  scared to death, dining disasters, its my job, so embarrassing, its relative, errors of eros, love and lies, outrageous, and in like a lion. In each slam ten contestants told real life stories and two winners became finalists. 

THE BIG MOUTH OFF  was the final contest in Bostons first story slam season, produced by massmouth  and will be held at 6PM on APRIL 20th 2010 at in the Boston Public Librarys Rabb Auditorium, Copley Square, Boston MA .massmouth has hosted  an exciting series of story slams on the following themes:  scared to death, dining disasters, its my job, so embarrassing, its relative, errors of eros, love and lies, outrageous, and in like a lion. In each slam ten contestants told real life stories and two winners became finalists. 

 We heard the winners of the monthly slams plus one Peoples Choice entrant compete for the grand prize  a week at a medieval Tuscan townhouse.  The winners were chosen by the distinguished judges; Jay OCallahan (master storyteller), Charlie Pierce ( Boston Globe, panelist on npr's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me") Brian ODonovan ( host of a Celtic Sojourn- wgbh-fm), Josna Rege ( English professor, blogging at Tell Me Another ) and Jay Allison (independent radio producer  and  nprs This I Believe)

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