Stories that choose you.

Interactive storytelling experiences and mystical everyday adventures from author and Bailey Sends Word Story Studio head, Bailey Lewis

Projects


Found Oracles

Interactive choose-your-own oracular storytelling adventure site

A top-of-page screen shot of the Found Oracles interactive story card library prompting the audience to choose an oracle character from the library grid of many colorful surreal object-based characters, to reveal the story that's meant to find them

The Gumball Machine of Great Fortune

Public art storytelling encounter
Grant recipient & ongoing installation, Art Fields ‘26

Head shot of Bailey Lewis

Hi I’m Bailey! Welcome to my story studio

I have been a professional writer, storyteller, literary artist, and interactive narrative designer for more than 20 years.

During that time I acquired a unique mix of skills over my career travels, including stints in copywriting, web content creation, digital and print publishing, user experience design, content strategy consulting, creative directorship, social media creation… you name something in writing, storytelling, or publishing and I probably have done it.

In fact, all I’ve ever done since I learned how to hold a pen and staple paper together at the age of six, is create interactive stories and publish them.

It’s what I do when not a single soul even asked me to.

And so, after two decades of telling my stories in other people’s spaces and for other people’s visions, six-year-old me finally won. I opened this story studio to bring my interactive creations to life and share them with the world. The only difference is that, this time, I have even more stories to tell. ★

Bio

Bailey Lewis is an award-winning author, interactive storyteller, and the head of Bailey Sends Word Story Studio. Her work has been published internationally, awarded in many national contests, and featured in The Wigleaf Top 50. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of South Carolina. Recently, her storytelling project The Gumball Machine of Great Fortune received a public art grant and ongoing installation at ArtFields Festival 2026.

Short story publications

Storytelling craft and narrative design theory publications

Writing and storytelling awards and recognition

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