Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight with Steve Edwards
April, 2007 / Chicago Public Radio

WCKG with Bob Sirott and Marianne Murciano (mp3)
April, 2007 /WCKG 105.9

Celebrating wine, words and song
April 18, 2007 / Pioneer Local, Chicago Sun-Times
“Those great, intimate stories are exactly the kind Megan Stielstra, the festival's director of story development, aims to showcase. 'The difference is that I'm telling my story from a stool to 100 of my closest friends.'”

2nd Story a second home to Columbia writers
April, 2007 / Reservoir Magazine
“Columbia’s crème de la crème have all but taken over 2nd Story, a hybrid performance event combining storytelling, wine, and music held at Webster’s Wine Bar.”

Hurts so Good (PDF)
February 12 , 2007 / Chicago Sun-Times

To have loved and lost, Poetry program celebrates the downside of romance (PDF)
February 7, 2007 / Pioneer Press, News Star
“2nd Story puts a theatrical twist on the standard reading.”

Staged Right
November 16, 2006 / Time Out Chicago
“2nd Story puts a theatrical twist on the standard reading.”

2nd Story
September 18, 2006 / Centerstage.net
“Storytelling series blends wine, music and reading to the delight of diehard fans.”

Heart and Solo
April 13, 2006 / Time Out Chicago
“A noted fiction writer whose unique, dynamic readings often include elements of live music (distancing her from the pack of her hushed, floor-gazing peers on the lit-reading circuit), Stielstra will incorporate the live rock music of songwriter Julie Korman.”

High on Wine
March 17, 2005 / Time Out Chicago
“Wine and words fit together almost as perfectly as beer and rock & roll. But at Serendipity Theatre's 2nd Story event, a festival of wine, storytelling and music, the wine and words may get a rock injection. Stielstra, co-founder of Sleepwalk magazine, was one of four performers at a preview to promote the weeklong event...”