Young Writers Workshop

Story Studio is an award-winning charity that inspires, educates and empowers youth to be great storytellers, transforming lives and strengthening communities.

Our Impact

Our programming unleashes and cultivates the creativity that lies within every child, using professional techniques and mentors to help nurture developing storytellers.

We celebrate and encourage young writers by crafting beautiful publications from their words.

Our programs cultivate narrative capacity in youth, by improving their ability to take in and understand stories, and their ability to tell them. Storytelling is an essential tool in forging connections among people, and between people and ideas – skills that are critical for youth to survive, thrive and lead.

Our programs build confidence in youth, by giving them the skills and opportunities to tell their own story. In doing so, we build their resilience, improve their mental health and help them connect with communities near and far.

What We Do

We develop innovative, ‘fun-first’ workshops that give youth the narrative tools to create amazing stories, using a methodology we’ve developed with almost 10,000 youth.

We bring together emerging kid writers with adult authors and illustrators, so they can learn from each other.

We operate both within the school system and outside of it to reach the kids who really need our help. We leverage partnerships with other non-profits and agencies so that we can benefit and support the entire community.

We target 80% of our programming towards serving ‘vulnerable youth’ – students who may be at risk in terms of their academic achievement and social functioning. Whenever possible, we offer workshops at no cost to these youth and families through partnerships with other community organisations.