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Story Slam cancelled for this year

Story Slam 2022 has been cancelled for lack of entries.


It will return next fall.

And the 2021 winner is...

Yorkton’s 6th annual Story Slam was held Wednesday, October 20 at the Yorkton Public Library. It is a storytelling competition presented by the Yorkton Arts Council in partnership with the Parkland Writers Alliance and the Yorkton Public Library.  


The winner is awarded a $100 prize and the winning story will be published in Yorkton This Week and, on this website.


And the winner is Yuri Forbes-Petrovich with his story I Almost Got Hit By a Car in the McDonald’s Parking Lot on Broadway Street.


Read the 2021 winning entry


Congratulations to all participants! They were:

  • Jo–Ann Kennedy:  The Button Box
  • CV Parameshwaran: What’s in a name?
  • Ross Green:  Colour My Words
  • Monica Fraske Bornyk:  Garden Life
  • Sarah Christie–Petrovich: A Letter to Mark Hamill
  • Rachel Watson: Kovu
  • Crystal Dyste: Boulder Tag


Story Slam 2021 winner  Yuri Forbes-Petrovich 

Funding for Story Slam is provided by:

Hosted and presented by:

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