The Stories of Our Community project offers different activities encouraging you to share both personal stories and stories on public history and community life. Come experience some unique story-sharing moments with your friends or some family or community members and take a trip back in time!
STORYTELLING, WRITING & SHARING
Love and Other Landings
A collection of eight short stories
The book is available in our Library.
Our Stories Book Launch
Wednesday, July 2, 2025, at 7 p.m.
R.S.V.P. to cultural.programming[at]morrin.org
A Life With Animals and Imagination
Storytelling for Seniors with Elizabeth Davies
Community Outreach on June 10 and July 3, 2025
An Interview and Storytelling with Deb Vanslet
Join us for this true-life storytelling afternoon!
Sunday, March 30, 2025, at 2 p.m.
Journal Workshop for All Ages
Personalize your very own journal!
Saturday, March 1, 2025, at 3 p.m.
Echoes of Our Voices Workshop
with Sophie Létourneau
February 19, March 5 & 19, 2025, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Sunday, March 30, 2025, at 1 p.m.
Story Writing Contest
Personal Stories & Popular History
Submission Deadline: February 17, 2025
Personal Storytelling Workshop
with Taylor Tower
January 18 & 19, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Our Stories: Holiday Special Family Event
Tales, stories, legends, poems, and much more!
December 14, 2024, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Book
Love and Other Landings is a collection of short stories crafted by local writers of different backgrounds and ages who participated in the Stories of Our Community Story Writing Contest that was organized by the Morrin Centre to encourage community members to write and share personal stories. The book was edited by writer Louisa Blair and it comprises eight stories of which one was written in French and seven in English. It is now part of our library collection.
Contents
- Introduction by Louisa Blair
- Paryetta Came! – by Amirhossein Bahramnejad
- The Kiss – by C.E. Battle
- Just a Good Day – by Sarah Blair
- Remade in Quebec – by Saxon Davies
- Toi – par Anaïs Laflamme
- How I Met My Sally – by Christian Shriqui
- December 23 – by Smym
- Our Story – by Ricky Zurif
Story Writing Contest
Send us your contribution for the Morrin Centre’s Stories of Our Community project writing contest! We hope to receive many different types of writing related to personal stories and popular history. You can write a story of 200 to 2000 words, in English or French, in any genre of your choice: prose, poetry, journalistic writing, letters, etc.
Submission deadline: February 17, 2025
For questions or submissions, please reach out to us at info@morrin.org.
This contest is open to all, the Morrin Centre members and people from different Quebec regions.
The winning story and the runners-up will be published in the Stories of Our Community booklet that will be made available in a digital version on our social media and as a paper copy in the Library.
The Stories of Our Community project is made possible thanks to support from the Government of Canada.
