Want to create and write your own stories or personal narratives? You can even submit your stories for publication on Amazon!
If you are in middle school or high school, join live virtual sessions on Thursdays with The Stories Inside Me and Fridays with Noon Hour Story Ninjas.
Noon Hour Story Ninjas brings in a new author every week for live Zoom sessions, like Wanda Tayor, a former television producer, award-winning author Wanda Taylor with ten books of fiction and non-fiction, and credits in film, radio, television and documentaries. CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR ACCESS CODE.
The Stories Inside Me has a focus on Indigenous stories with Indigenous author mentors, like David A. Robertson, two-time Governor General Literature Award winner from Norway House Cree Nation, with over 25 books. CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR ACCESS CODE.
Don’t want to wait until Thursday or Friday to write?
Jump right in with these fun recorded lessons below for all ages! Just click on the course you’d like and you are in!
Terrific Storyific Picture Book
For grades one and up. Learn how to write an amazing picture book! CLICK HERE TO JOIN.
Write A True Story From Your Life
For grades three and up. Take a story from your life to share with others! CLICK HERE TO JOIN.
Win YOUR Argument On Paper
For grades three and up. Write an opinion that people will love to read! CLICK HERE TO JOIN.
meet your story guides!
Short Story Writing
For grades three and up. Let your imagination go will in a short story. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.
Wanda Taylor is an award-winning journalist, professor, and author of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. Her most recent fiction release is The Grover School Pledge for middle school readers.
Mat Cardinal, from Bigstone Cree Nation, Wabasca/Demarais, AB is the lead singer of The Prairie States and seven-time Country Music Alberta Awards.
As a Métis writer, Jacqueline Guest’s award winning books deliver main characters from different ethnic backgrounds including First Nations, Inuit or Metis, where they face issues common to every child such as bullying, blended families and physical challenges and are strong role models for today’s youth.
Mireille Messier écrit. Elle écrit pour les petits et les grands. Elle écrit des livres, des articles et des scénarios pour la télé. Elle écrit en français et en anglais. Elle écrit à Toronto, où elle habite avec son conjoint, ses deux grands enfants et ses cinq chats super poilus! Lorsqu’elle n’écrit pas, Mireille lit. Beaucoup!.
Lana Button is an award winning picture book author and a passionate early childhood educator with over 30 years experience. With picture books shortlisted for numerous awards, she inspires children across Canada with presentations about perseverance, empathy and anti-bullying.
Guyanese-Canadian author Natasha Deen writes for all ages. Her novels include In the Key of Nira Ghani, (Amy Mathers’ Teen Book Award), and The Signs and Wonders of Tuna Rashad (A Globe and Mail Top 100 Read of 2022). She teaches writing courses at the University of Toronto’s SCS.
Author of the critically acclaimed middle-school novel Call Me Al about an immigrant facing anti-Muslim racism, Wali Shah is an alumni of RBC’s Top 25 Canadian Immigrants. He has delivered TED Talks and once closed out a keynote speech made by President Barack Obama.
With Indian Treaty Status as a member of Treaty 6 Mistawasis Hehiyawak, Cree artist Liz Buller Page makes it her goal to share the beautiful art and culture of the Plains Cree. Her works are in fine galleries across Canada, and her drawings are part of the Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan.
A former television and radio producer and host, Lorna Schulz Nicholson has published over 30 books, including children's picture books, middle grade, YA fiction and sports non-fiction, with books with NHL stars Connor McDavid and PK Subban.
