Kate Story
Kate Story is a writer and theatre artist. She is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Foundation’s K.M. Hunter Artist Award in theatre, and as part of Peterborough’s centennial celebrations she was named one of the region’s 100 most important performing artists. Artistic director of three month-long multi-arts festivals in Peterborough, the Precarious Festivals saw Kate work with a wide array of arts and non-arts community partners to deliver workshops, learning and mentorship opportunities for youth, panel discussions, and original performance, music, visual art, literary, and media works. She is the director of Public Energy’s Alternating Currents program, for the past 4 years facilitating creative processes for wildly diverse artistic projects.
Kate is an active supporter of local arts organizations, previously serving as vice-chair of Peterborough’s arts council the Electric City Culture Council, and currently chairing the advisory committee and Board of The Theatre on King. She also sits on the Theatre Trent Executive.
Kate’s first novel Blasted received the Sunburst Award’s honourable mention, and her third novel This Insubstantial Pageant was tipped by the Toronto Star as a top SF pick. 2018-19 saw the publication of her first young adult fantasy, the Antilia duology, identified as a best new work for children by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, and a new Young Adult novel Urchin is coming out in the fall. Her short fiction has been published in World Fantasy Award and Aurora Award-winning collections, and has been shortlisted for the Sunburst Award and the CBC Literary Award.
