Emerald Coast Storytellers

TONIGHT at SOWAL House 🎤 See you there!

https://www.sowalhouse.com/event-details/sofo-poets-society-hosted-by-tricia-veldman-presented-by-emerald-coast-storytellers-2026-08-19-17-00

What are you taking to the grave? 🤐

Or… what are you willing to tell a room full of strangers tonight?

Storytellers is TONIGHT at Distillery 98, and August’s theme — Take It to the Grave — is bringing us the secrets, buried truths, private loyalties, unresolved feelings, and stories we swore we’d never tell.

Tonight, we’ll hear from our Featured Storyteller Nicole Paloma, alongside a lineup of community storytellers sharing five-minute stories of their own.

And if you’ve been sitting on a story, consider this your sign: sign up to read tonight and your ticket is on us! (DM or email us at [email protected] if interested!)

Not ready for the mic? Come listen. Come eat. Come hang. sooshplus food truck will be there serving up dinner, and there’s still plenty of time to make plans and join us.

📍 Distillery 98
🚪 Doors at 5 PM | Stories at 6 PM
🎟️ Tickets available now on our website

Some stories go to the grave.
Maybe yours makes it to the mic first…

Some stories we tell over and over.

Others? We take to the grave 🤐

August’s Story Theme is TAKE IT TO THE GRAVE — and we’re digging into the secrets, buried truths, private loyalties, unresolved feelings, and moments we carry with us long after we stop speaking about them.

The crush you never admitted to.
The betrayal you justified.
The thing you almost said.
The memory that still finds you.
The secret you swore you’d never tell.

Not every story wants daylight. But even the hidden ones leave fingerprints.

So… what are you taking to the grave?

Maybe, just maybe, you’ll tell us Thursday 👀

August Storytellers at Distillery 98
Thursday, August 13
Doors at 5 | Stories at 6

🎤: Nicole Paloma
🥢🚚: sooshplus

🎟️ Tickets at emeraldcoaststorytellers.com

Storytelling doesn’t always happen on a page or behind a microphone.

Sometimes, it’s sewn into what we create 🪡

This Thursday, we’re welcoming a different kind of storyteller to the stage: Nicole Paloma, our first-ever fashion designer Featured Storyteller.

A self-taught designer, artist, and the creative force behind her namesake hand-sewn label, Nicole has spent nearly two decades building a brand rooted in craftsmanship, individuality, and soul. Her work is deeply shaped by her own story—beauty born from struggle and gratitude, recovery, community, and a mission to help women feel effortlessly seen, inherently powerful, and undeniably themselves.

We can’t wait to hear the stories behind the woman—and the work.

Join us this Thursday, 8/13, at Distillery 98 for our August Storytellers. Doors open at 5 PM + storytelling begins at 6.

Come experience a different kind of storytelling ✨

🎟️ emeraldcoaststorytellers.com