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Storyteller & Teacher Matthew Dicks


Matthew DicksMatthew Dicks is the author of Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand and an award-winning slam storyteller with a record-breaking fifty-nine victories at the Moth StorySLAM competition and ten victories at the GrandSLAM. In addition to cofounding Speak Up, a Hartford-based storytelling organization, he teaches storytelling and public speaking to individuals, corporations, nonprofits, universities, and schools around the world. He lives in Newington, Connecticut, with his wife and two children. Visit him online at MatthewDicks.com


How to Be Funny

Humor is an exceptionally powerful tool in communication to make your audience connect with you.


8 Audience Engagement Hacks

Audience attention and engagement are not givens. These winning engagement strategies will captivate your crowd.


Grit, Persistence, and Luck

Learning about the lives of people in a variety of creative fields can help eliminate misconceptions and demystify the creative process.


Creativity Cannot Abide Preciousness

Not everything needs to be a thing.


Crash and Burn Writing Exercise

Use the dreaming end of your pen to mimic the free-associative thought patterns that you experience while dreaming.


The Secret to Storytelling

Every great story is about a five-second moment of our life.