The Port of Seattle and Seattle Propeller Club Present:

Stories of the Sea:           

Seattle Maritime Day

Spoken Word, Song and Storytelling Slam!

7-10 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 24

Highliner Public House

3909 18^th Avenue West

@ Fisherman’s Terminal

No Cost to Participate & Free Admission

Stories of the Sea, a raucous night dedicated to song, poetry and storytelling about the epic adventures of commercial fishing and the maritime industry. The evening will feature 14 performers, with cash prizes awarded to the top participants.

2020 Cash Prizes!

First Place – Spoken Word Story:        $150                               First Place - Story Song:           $100    

Second Place – Spoken Word Story:   $100                                Second Place – Story Song:    $  50

Third Place Spoken Word Story:          $  50                                Third Place – Story Song:        $  25

Best Overall Presentation/Stage Presence: $100

Honorable Mention:  $25

Each performer will have 10 minutes and we are limited to 14 storytellers. Performers may combine a Spoken Word and Song Story in their performance. Artists can perform one story or multiple stories. Each story by an artist during a performance will be judged individually and artists can win multiple cash prizes based on their performance. Performers will be judged based on if it is an Original Story, Creativity, Presentation & Stage Presence, Imagery, Poetic/literary Content, If You Have Worked in the Maritime Industry, and Nautical Relevance. Judging will be industry leaders and media members. 

With a full field of 13 storytellers from Oregon to Canada and a packed house, the 10th Annual Stories of the Sea was a raucous night dedicated to song, poetry and storytelling about the epic adventures of commercial fishing and the maritime industry,

The 2019 Seattle Maritime Festival Stories of the Sea, which was sponsored by National Fisherman magazine and Pacific Marine Expo, was held on Thursday, May 10, at the Highliner Public House at Fishermen’s Terminal.

Each performer had 10 minutes to perform. Each story (spoken word or song) by an artist during a performance was judged individually and artists could win multiple cash prizes based on their performance. Performers were judged based on if it is an Original Story, Creativity, Presentation & Stage Presence, Imagery, Poetic/literary Content, If You Have Worked in the Maritime Industry, and Nautical Relevance. Representatives of the maritime industry will judge the performers

A total of $600 in prizes were awarded.

Spoken Word

First Place Spoke Word                              Phil Lansing

Second Place Spoken Word                      Jeff Stonehill

Third Place Spoken Word                          Susan Hawk

Songs

First Place                                                  Fae Wiedenhoeft

Second Place                                            John Sparrow

Third Place                                                Wendy Joseph

Honorable Mention                                   Tonja Michelle

Best Overall Presentation                         Daniel Quinn