An award-winning Canadian charity that inspires, educates and empowers youth to be great storytellers, changing lives and transforming communities.

An award-winning Canadian charity that youth to be great storytellers, transforming lives and communities.

DONATE AND FUEL OUR SPRING PROGRAMS!

With over 12,000 youth served, the need for our confidence-building workshops has never been higher — especially for youth facing financial barriers.

We need to raise $20,000 by December 31st to meet the growing demand for bursaries and keep our resources strong.

Every gift opens a door to a new chapter for a young creator. You can make an immediate difference by:

Making a Matched Gift of $500+ (Your impact doubles!)
Becoming a Monthly Donor for sustainable support.
Funding a $50 Bursary for a young writer

FREE WINTER WRITING ACTIVITY

We’re giving you the gift of inspiration!

Click the image to download a free PDF and follow along each day. Write a few sentences in response to each prompt. By December 31, email your favourite piece of writing to info@storystudio.ca (Maximum 250 words. Please include your first name, age and home province/country.)

We’ll share some of our favourite submissions online!

CURRENT PROGRAMS

UPCOMING EVENTS

MUSIC BINGO FUNDRAISER

Wednesday November 26th
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Fernwood Inn
1302 Gladstone Ave, Victoria, BC

Join award-winning charity Story Studio in an exciting evening of music bingo at the Fernwood Inn! Guess the songs, win prizes and raise critical funds to support our literacy workshops for under-resourced youth across Victoria.

Join us Nov 26th, doors open at 6:00 pm and Bingo starts at 7pm!

Tickets are $32 and sold online only.

Full food and drink menu will be available for you to enjoy.

YOUNG WRITERS DAY AT THE VFA

October 19, 10:30 am – 4:00pm
KWENCH Coworking & Culture Club
2031 Store Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

A full day of activities, hosted by Story Studio, for young writers (and fans of writers for kids!) Click below to learn more and register.

Meet Your Main Character (workshop)

Atlas of Imaginary Places (workshop)

Stories That Shape Us: Writing for—and Inspiring—Young Readers (presentation with Uma Krishnaswami and Giselle Vriesen)

In Conversation with Kenneth Oppel (presentation)

Kind Words

Thank you for telling us how to take our experiences and showing how to mesh them together to make a story.

I just wanted to say, thank you so much for this program! It is genuinely the best writing program I have ever been in...

Thank you for inspiring me to make my story better and helping me!

Story Studio inspires creativity in young minds, and makes the task of writing (even to the point of publication) exciting, achievable, and even practical. Keep up your wonderful work!

Thank you so much for doing the summer studio!!! I had so much fun!! I know that having my story edited and published is an amazing opportunity, and I’m super grateful for it.

Thank you for all the good ideas you gave me to be a better writer!

Your summer writing sessions have given her an opportunity to explore her writing at a deeper level. She looks forward to it every week.

Thank you so much for coming and teaching us how to write these awesome stories.

I think that as teachers we often get caught up in the writing and spelling and lose sight of the students’ creativity. They were free to be as creative as they wanted. They also became authors which made them very proud.

Thank you so so so much for helping us write cool stories!

Writing Gallery

Lou is throwing a ball against the wall in her backyard. Lou is a tall seven-year-old girl with brown hair. She always wears a purple shirt with a red heart. Lou is good at swimming and walking around. She is afraid of wolves, and she really wants to have a unicorn…

I look out the frosty window in my cold bedroom. I have three hours until I leave to go camping. I will be gone for half of my winter break, camping on some mountain I’ve never heard of. I hate camping. Sadly, my dad says it builds character, so I guess I’ll have to put up with it for a while.

It all started in the middle of the night sometime in the future. There lived a T-Rex and his name was Jackson. He was six and a half years old.

Territorial Acknowledgement

Story Studio Writing Society is located on the traditional territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ and Lkwungen-speaking peoples. We respectfully acknowledge and thank the Lkwungen People, also known as the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations communities, for allowing us to live, work, learn, play and create on their lands. Through the work we do on the territory, we are accountable to the following communities: Esquimalt, Songhees, SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout), W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), MÁLEXEŁ (Malahat), W̱SĺḴEM (Tseycum), T’Sou-ke Nation, Scia’new Nation and Nuu-chah-nulth: Pacheedaht Nations.

We acknowledge that the historical relationship to the land and territories of these peoples continues to this day. As an education based organization, we recognize that we have the responsibility to work towards truth and reconciliation, and to remain open to suggestions, consultations, and partnerships, especially with local Indigenous communities and organizations, on how our organization can continue to work towards reconciliation.