For us, Listen to Your Mother audition season is, quite literally, the most wonderful time of the year.

Listen to Your Mother is the celebration of motherhood that we all wish we’d thought of, and that luckily national director Ann Imig did think of! Now affectionately known as LTYM, Listen to Your Mother is a series of live, on-stage readings across North America on or around Mother’s Day.

Most LTYM readers aren’t professional writers and many of them aren’t mothers. LTYM readers are people with stories about motherhood to tell. And this includes absolutely everyone—especially you.

Below are audition tips to help make the LTYM process as easy as possible. On this page, we’ll hold your hand through LTYM audition basics, a few LTYM storytelling examples, and writing prompts to get your writing rolling. Please take the time to read all of this to the very end.

The most common thing we hear about Listen to Your Mother Twin Cities is, “I could never do THAT!” THAT, being getting on the Riverview stage in front of 700 people to tell your story.

And we’re here, of course, to debunk that. If 100+ other Twin Cities women have done it since 2013, then why not you?

We want to tell you a ‘lil story today about the only two kinds of women that we’re looking for for LTYM. And yes, there really are only two.

Our talented LTYM alumni are an amazing creative resource for you! Editing, speaking, social media for writers just barely scratches the surface of what this amazing group of women can do. If you are looking for writing resources, we highly recommend our alumni!

We’re so excited to celebrate the incredible small businesses who are our local sponsors in the Twin Cities. We only invite businesses to work with us who we already respect and adore, so we mean it when we say:

These are our go-to Twin Cities businesses for realty, books, landscape & hardscape design, and sweet treats!

If you need any of these items, please consider supporting them the way that they support us, women, and storytelling in the Twin Cities!

Today, we couldn't be more excited to announce the cast of the 2025 LTYM Twin Cities Alumni Holiday Show!

You might be wondering what it’s like to actually be at a Listen To Your Mother Twin Cities show! We’ve got all the details in this post — from what you need to know about parking, seating, and bathrooms — the top three questions we get from audience members! — to what you need to know about the show itself — what it’s like, what happens when, and how does one get the famous Riverview popcorn?! Click into the post to see it all!

Listen to Your Mother Twin Cities has donated 10% of our ticket proceeds to the Jeremiah Program since 2010. It is, quite honestly, a match made in (Twin Cities) heaven.