Rules

- No props.
- Five minutes to tell your story. After 5 minutes, there will be a penalty. After 7 minutes, you're gonged.
- Story must be original, unpublished and NOT A REPEAT
- You can read from a script, or just go up and tell a story.
- Sign up is at 7 pm. Competition start at 7:30 pm. Names are drawn for order of story telling.
- If there are more than 10 story tellers, the first 10 names to be drawn will be able to compete.
- $5 to enter as a writer. Money goes to the Edmonton Story Slam Society.
- Hat is passed at intermission. All money donated by the audience goes to the winner.
- Once a year in March, we hold Slam Off. All winners from the year compete for the title of Slam Off Champion.
Judges
We randomly pick 5 judges in the audience. They score from 1 to 10. We eliminate the highest score and the lowest score, then add the three middle scores together. Judges give their scores after each story teller.