Meeting Each Storyteller
Where They Are
Storytelling isn’t a one-size-fits-all experience. While writing takes heart, forethought, skill, and implementation, there’s several ways to achieve results. Progress essentially depends on each individual’s personal style and creative journey.
The reality is many aspiring storytellers give up on their brilliance because the tools and direction to complete projects are costly, out of reach, or ineffective. Quitting leads to a shortage of stories that honor the truths of diverse communities to ensure everyone feels seen.
Show-Me Stories, LLC is devoted to ending the storyteller deficit. Providing a customized framework for emerging writers and visionaries in varied sectors helps them share riveting narratives and thrive on their respective paths.
About the Founder
Lyndsey Ellis is a writer and communications professional who earned her BA in English from University of Missouri-Columbia and MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She enjoys reading and crafting stories that center intergenerational relationships, regional history, and/or speculative folklore. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies. Ellis's debut novel, Bone Broth (Hidden Timber Books, 2021), won a Friends of American Writers Literature Award and was selected as a first-year read for Maryville University’s freshman class in St. Louis for two consecutive school years. She’s also been a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Kimbilio Fiction Writers Fellowship, and Washington University's Inaugural Heartland Journalism Fellowship.
Ellis has worked with several publicatioms as a prose editor, including River Styx, The Common, Alternating Current, great weather for MEDIA and The Account: A Journal for Prose, Poetry & Thought. She’s currently a curatorial editor for Scarlet Literary Magazine, a subsidiary of Jaded Ibis Press. Over the years, she’s also developed an expansive list of clients who’ve sought her out for personal editing.
As a creative writing instructor, Ellis has taught classes for a number of organizations, like Gotham Writers Workshop, The Loft Literary Center, YourWords STL, midnight & indigo, and California Writers Club-Berkeley Branch, with a focus on craft, publication, and cross-arts collaboration. In 2023, she launched “PlainTalk: Intergenerational Voices of St. Louis”, a community enrichment workshop series, with an artist support grant from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis.
St. Louis-bred and San Francisco Bay Area-trained, Ellis is a reverse transplant on a mission to help other griots be the best version of themselves through their gift of words. For more info, visit www.lyndseyellis.com.
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