“In the end, we'll all become stories.”
             ― Margaret Atwood

Tanya Roy has been a natural talker for right around 50 years and a competitive storyteller on the Eastern Seaboard for 25 of those. She is motivated by the desire to create the best and kindest versions of herself and the world around her. This rarely goes as planned. She carries a story in her pocket wherever she goes.

and became a passion for sharing the power of stories with others.

It all started with a love of stories... 

Tanya can be found at open mic nights and on stages across the US. She is available to be a featured speaker, moderator, or judge at all kinds of spoken word events.

What Tanya Does

What Tanya can bring to you. . .

Tanya can be found at open mic nights and on stages across the US performing her own poetry. Even her poems tell a story! But sometimes someone has already written the words that portray what we want to say. The story in a poem is told in both the words and in the pauses. Experience the power of poetry read aloud. 



Performance poetry

Story reading is a genre all its own. At any reading event, Tanya's lifelong love and work with literacy & writing enhances her ability to evoke emption out of the reading of other people's words. 
While Tanya loves all genre (yes, even nonfiction!) classics, children's stories, and spooky tales of the macabre are favorites. Who doesn't live a little Poe?



Readings& Recitations

Tanya's storytelling follows the tradition of the Story Slam or Story Howl: Stories must be true, told in the first person, fit within the time frame and the storyteller cannot use notes. Tanya has been a finalist at multiple Story Howls hosted by Adirondack Center for Writing and North Country Public Radio. You can also catch her on the Moth Story Hour and find her on iTunes. Give her a theme and she'll tell you a story. 


Storytelling

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We all have a story to tell. I specialize in helping you tell yours with emotion, grace, and a bit (or a lot) of laughter.

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