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NOVELS
Blasted
Killick Press / Creative Book Publishing (fall 2008)
Island (working title)
In progess - first draft completed
Workshopped at the Banff Centre for the Arts (April 2008)
SHORT STORIES
Runaway
Shortlisted for CBC 2008 Literary Contest
www.cbc.ca/literaryawards
Flame Retarded read the story
Broken Pencil - "Best Of" Anthology
ECW Press (2009)
And she knew all the flowers read the story
Take Out Anthology - Issue #1 (winter 2008)
(pieces compiled from "The Cooked and Eaten" Reading Series)
Flame Retarded
Broken Pencil #37 (fall 2007)
And she knew all the flowers
Kiss Machine #14 (spring/summer 2007)
NON-FICTION
Dusk Dances in Peterborough (article)
The Arthur (August 2004)
Beneath the Skin: Shifting Cultural Perspectives on the Body (essay)
The Dance Current, Vol. 5 Issue 8 (February 2003)
Peterborough New Dance: a retrospective (essay)
The Arthur (September 2002)
PERFORMANCE WORKS
Kate's performance works are characterized by elements of dance, theatre and performance art, often in collaboration with other artists (musicians,
choreographers, designers). Written works have been produced as plays, performance art works, and theatre-dance productions.
Skirting the Edge (2005-present)
A collection of six original monologues on the issue of women and mental health (Kate contributed Green Spaces, set in a Victorian asylum). The work was
sponsored by Peterborough New Dance/Public Energy, in association with the Behind the Mind's Eye Film Festival, and in partnership with the Peterborough
Regional Health Care Centre, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Mysterious Entity Theatre - Peterborough 2005, 2006 and 2007; Guelph's Riverrun Centre (fall 2007)
The Cure for Sexual Jealousy (January 2006)
A collaborative work written with designer Martha Cockshutt, musician Susan Newman, writer/director Susan Spicer.
Peterborough, January 2006
"Innovative... evok(ing) feelings of jealousy as ancient as life itself... delighting the audience... It was over all too soon."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner
Agoreyphilia (2004)
A dance-theatre collaboration based upon the work of writer/illustrator Edward Gorey, with performer Ryan Kerr, designer Martha Cockshutt, musicians Curtis
Driedger and John McEwan, and other artists.
Market Hall Theatre (Peterborough, June 2004)
"A sensual duet of bodies clanging and clinging... a delightfully droll and polished evening of quips and cranks a la Gorey."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner
Hansel and Gretel (2002-present)
Adapted the tale for Arbor Theatre, 2002. Went on to workshop it with the support of the Ontario Arts Council as Hungry, an original piece of musical theatre, with
composer/lyricists Rob Fortin and Susan Newman, and director/dramaturge Susan Spicer. Public Energy, a presenter of dance and theatre, produced the full
production in their 2008 season as Hungry: A Musical Hansel and Gretel.
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (2002)
Written and performed by Kate Story, Music composed and performed by Curtis Driedger,
Directed by Susan Spicer, Choreographed by Claudia Moore, Designed by Martha Cockshutt
Peterborough New Dance's Emergency X (Peterborough, 2002)
"Kate Story delivers a compelling and energetic performance... humourous, unsettling and memorable."
Jonothan Fiddler, Peterborough Examiner
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (1999)
St. John's Fringe Festival
Performance for an Orange and Violet Room (1999)
7a*11d Festival of Performance Art in Toronto, 1999
Swallowed (1998)
fFIDA (Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists), Toronto, 1998; Emergency, Peterborough, 1998; Significant Others Series, LSPU Hall, St. John's, 1998
"Bold, creative work... comic and confrontational...Leaves you wanting more."
Paul Rowe, CBC Radio
"a truly manic solo... irreverent to a fault... maintains (an) integrated style."
William Littler, Toronto Star
"The L Series is particularly strong, with Newfoundlander Kate Story offering up a humourous blend of theatre and sound... "
Finbarr O'Reilly, The Globe and Mail
Throat (1997)
Summerworks, Toronto, 1997; St. John's Fringe Festival, 1997; Rhubarb! Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, 1997
"I loved it, it moved me, made me laugh."
St. John's Telegram
"Cleverly costumed in a paper dress... a graceful mover and clown... "
Susan Walker, Toronto Star
Play With Fire (1996)
Staged reading at Buddies in Bad Times, directed by Caroline Azar, 1996
In addition, Kate has worked as a writer on many collaborative theatrical shows and independent productions with various companies, including Crossings: the
Bell of Batoche; Fair Play; The 4th Line Farm Show (4th Line Theatre, collaborative works, 1998-2001); and The Maeve Project (Riverbank Productions,
collaborative work, 2000). Kate worked as a community stories mentor with the 4th Line Theatre (going into the community to gather oral histories, and working
with new writers, 1999-01). In the summer of 2003 she dramaturged the original work of students in the Centre for Indigenous Theatre's summer program in
Peterborough. In 2004 was dramaturge for Ryan Kerr's play based upon John Rauston Saul's Unconscious Civilization, developed and performed in collaboration
with The Art Gallery of Peterborough.
Blasted
Killick Press / Creative Book Publishing (fall 2008)
Island (working title)
In progess - first draft completed
Workshopped at the Banff Centre for the Arts (April 2008)
SHORT STORIES
Runaway
Shortlisted for CBC 2008 Literary Contest
www.cbc.ca/literaryawards
Flame Retarded read the story
Broken Pencil - "Best Of" Anthology
ECW Press (2009)
And she knew all the flowers read the story
Take Out Anthology - Issue #1 (winter 2008)
(pieces compiled from "The Cooked and Eaten" Reading Series)
Flame Retarded
Broken Pencil #37 (fall 2007)
And she knew all the flowers
Kiss Machine #14 (spring/summer 2007)
NON-FICTION
Dusk Dances in Peterborough (article)
The Arthur (August 2004)
Beneath the Skin: Shifting Cultural Perspectives on the Body (essay)
The Dance Current, Vol. 5 Issue 8 (February 2003)
Peterborough New Dance: a retrospective (essay)
The Arthur (September 2002)
PERFORMANCE WORKS
Kate's performance works are characterized by elements of dance, theatre and performance art, often in collaboration with other artists (musicians,
choreographers, designers). Written works have been produced as plays, performance art works, and theatre-dance productions.
Skirting the Edge (2005-present)
A collection of six original monologues on the issue of women and mental health (Kate contributed Green Spaces, set in a Victorian asylum). The work was
sponsored by Peterborough New Dance/Public Energy, in association with the Behind the Mind's Eye Film Festival, and in partnership with the Peterborough
Regional Health Care Centre, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Mysterious Entity Theatre - Peterborough 2005, 2006 and 2007; Guelph's Riverrun Centre (fall 2007)
The Cure for Sexual Jealousy (January 2006)
A collaborative work written with designer Martha Cockshutt, musician Susan Newman, writer/director Susan Spicer.
Peterborough, January 2006
"Innovative... evok(ing) feelings of jealousy as ancient as life itself... delighting the audience... It was over all too soon."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner
Agoreyphilia (2004)
A dance-theatre collaboration based upon the work of writer/illustrator Edward Gorey, with performer Ryan Kerr, designer Martha Cockshutt, musicians Curtis
Driedger and John McEwan, and other artists.
Market Hall Theatre (Peterborough, June 2004)
"A sensual duet of bodies clanging and clinging... a delightfully droll and polished evening of quips and cranks a la Gorey."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner
Hansel and Gretel (2002-present)
Adapted the tale for Arbor Theatre, 2002. Went on to workshop it with the support of the Ontario Arts Council as Hungry, an original piece of musical theatre, with
composer/lyricists Rob Fortin and Susan Newman, and director/dramaturge Susan Spicer. Public Energy, a presenter of dance and theatre, produced the full
production in their 2008 season as Hungry: A Musical Hansel and Gretel.
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (2002)
Written and performed by Kate Story, Music composed and performed by Curtis Driedger,
Directed by Susan Spicer, Choreographed by Claudia Moore, Designed by Martha Cockshutt
Peterborough New Dance's Emergency X (Peterborough, 2002)
"Kate Story delivers a compelling and energetic performance... humourous, unsettling and memorable."
Jonothan Fiddler, Peterborough Examiner
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (1999)
St. John's Fringe Festival
Performance for an Orange and Violet Room (1999)
7a*11d Festival of Performance Art in Toronto, 1999
Swallowed (1998)
fFIDA (Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists), Toronto, 1998; Emergency, Peterborough, 1998; Significant Others Series, LSPU Hall, St. John's, 1998
"Bold, creative work... comic and confrontational...Leaves you wanting more."
Paul Rowe, CBC Radio
"a truly manic solo... irreverent to a fault... maintains (an) integrated style."
William Littler, Toronto Star
"The L Series is particularly strong, with Newfoundlander Kate Story offering up a humourous blend of theatre and sound... "
Finbarr O'Reilly, The Globe and Mail
Throat (1997)
Summerworks, Toronto, 1997; St. John's Fringe Festival, 1997; Rhubarb! Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, 1997
"I loved it, it moved me, made me laugh."
St. John's Telegram
"Cleverly costumed in a paper dress... a graceful mover and clown... "
Susan Walker, Toronto Star
Play With Fire (1996)
Staged reading at Buddies in Bad Times, directed by Caroline Azar, 1996
In addition, Kate has worked as a writer on many collaborative theatrical shows and independent productions with various companies, including Crossings: the
Bell of Batoche; Fair Play; The 4th Line Farm Show (4th Line Theatre, collaborative works, 1998-2001); and The Maeve Project (Riverbank Productions,
collaborative work, 2000). Kate worked as a community stories mentor with the 4th Line Theatre (going into the community to gather oral histories, and working
with new writers, 1999-01). In the summer of 2003 she dramaturged the original work of students in the Centre for Indigenous Theatre's summer program in
Peterborough. In 2004 was dramaturge for Ryan Kerr's play based upon John Rauston Saul's Unconscious Civilization, developed and performed in collaboration
with The Art Gallery of Peterborough.
Writer, performer, and choreographer
Kate Story was born and raised in St.
John's, Newfoundland, in a house built
by her great great grandfather beneath
the Southside Hills. Her short fiction
has been published in magazines
including Broken Pencil and Kiss
Machine, and her written performance
works have been produced as plays,
performance art works, and
theatre-dance productions in Ontario
(Toronto, Peterborough) and
Newfoundland and Labrador (St.
John's). She has been twice
nominated (2004 and 2006) for the
Ontario Arts Council's K.M. Hunter Artist
Award. Blasted is her first novel.
Kate Story was born and raised in St.
John's, Newfoundland, in a house built
by her great great grandfather beneath
the Southside Hills. Her short fiction
has been published in magazines
including Broken Pencil and Kiss
Machine, and her written performance
works have been produced as plays,
performance art works, and
theatre-dance productions in Ontario
(Toronto, Peterborough) and
Newfoundland and Labrador (St.
John's). She has been twice
nominated (2004 and 2006) for the
Ontario Arts Council's K.M. Hunter Artist
Award. Blasted is her first novel.
Artwork by Paddy Moore
| Kate reads some of her work as part of Peterborough's "The Cooked and Eaten" Reading Series |
Blasted is available for purchase in the Toronto area at:
Another Story Bookshop anotherstory.ca
Pages Bookstore pagesbooks.ca
This Ain't The Rosedale Library thisaint.ca
Toronto Women's Bookstore womensbookstore.com
University of Toronto Bookstore uoftbookstore.com
World's Biggest Book Store
York University Bookstore bookstore.yorku.ca
Also at:
Titles Bookstore in Peterborough
Chapters locations across Canada, and
at all Literary Press Group book stores
Online you can purchase your copy through:
amazon.ca, chapters.indigo.ca, amazon.com and directly through the publisher at
creativebookpublishing.ca
Another Story Bookshop anotherstory.ca
Pages Bookstore pagesbooks.ca
This Ain't The Rosedale Library thisaint.ca
Toronto Women's Bookstore womensbookstore.com
University of Toronto Bookstore uoftbookstore.com
World's Biggest Book Store
York University Bookstore bookstore.yorku.ca
Also at:
Titles Bookstore in Peterborough
Chapters locations across Canada, and
at all Literary Press Group book stores
Online you can purchase your copy through:
amazon.ca, chapters.indigo.ca, amazon.com and directly through the publisher at
creativebookpublishing.ca
Blasted is the story of Ruby Jones: irreverent, exuberant, and troubled. Lurching between love affairs and cities, she is
haunted by mysteries that surround her father and generations before. Steeped in Newfoundland folklore, Blasted mines a
rich vein of experience, layering the mundane and the magical, evoking the forces that inhabit the land. The narrative shifts
between generations and geographies, between contemporary life and stories as old as the Hill that looms over Ruby's
birthplace. Vivid characters surround Ruby: her irascible grandfather, elegant Cree artist Blue, her whiskey-slugging Aunt
Queenie, and others, sinister and unexplained. When Ruby unravels at last, she must face the demons that pursue her.
"Kate Story’s debut novel is an unlikely marriage of Newfoundland’s oldest traditional lore with the contemporary urban
world of St. John’s and Toronto. The result is raw and strange and hilarious and affecting. Ruby Jones - itinerant
waitress, sometime nude model, budding alcoholic - admits early on that tenderness and rage are her ‘heart language.’
Blasted offers both in spades.”
-- Michael Crummey, author of River Thieves and The Wreckage
"The swirl of emotion and memory and anticipation tumbles forth with acrobatic skill, a blend of galloping first-person
voice, present and remembered dialogue, and expansive visuals… touching, grimly funny… Kate Story plucks the
heartstrings."
-- Jim Bartley, Globe and Mail’s first-fiction reviewer
"…a strange, shining, souring thing brimming with beauty and terror, pain and love, insight and redemption."
-- Ursula Pflug, Internet Review of Science Fiction
"I am as delighted as other readers will be with this young Newfoundland writer. With talent and patience Kate Story has
unearthed another of the many mysteries hidden within the Southside Hills."
-- Bernice Morgan, author of Random Passage and Cloud of Bone
“Altogether the narrative tide of Blasted lifts its themes and characters and carries them forward in an irresistible flow.
Throughout, Story writes with energy, vivacity, a lack of self-pity, a clear eye for detail, and a great sense of comic
timing. This is a wonderful novel.”
-- The Newfoundland Quarterly, December 2008
“A stunning first novel.”
-- Susan Dyment, The Peterborough Examiner
" ... the best novel I've read in a very long time."
-- Em Glasspool, Artistic Director, Mysterious Entity Theatre
haunted by mysteries that surround her father and generations before. Steeped in Newfoundland folklore, Blasted mines a
rich vein of experience, layering the mundane and the magical, evoking the forces that inhabit the land. The narrative shifts
between generations and geographies, between contemporary life and stories as old as the Hill that looms over Ruby's
birthplace. Vivid characters surround Ruby: her irascible grandfather, elegant Cree artist Blue, her whiskey-slugging Aunt
Queenie, and others, sinister and unexplained. When Ruby unravels at last, she must face the demons that pursue her.
"Kate Story’s debut novel is an unlikely marriage of Newfoundland’s oldest traditional lore with the contemporary urban
world of St. John’s and Toronto. The result is raw and strange and hilarious and affecting. Ruby Jones - itinerant
waitress, sometime nude model, budding alcoholic - admits early on that tenderness and rage are her ‘heart language.’
Blasted offers both in spades.”
-- Michael Crummey, author of River Thieves and The Wreckage
"The swirl of emotion and memory and anticipation tumbles forth with acrobatic skill, a blend of galloping first-person
voice, present and remembered dialogue, and expansive visuals… touching, grimly funny… Kate Story plucks the
heartstrings."
-- Jim Bartley, Globe and Mail’s first-fiction reviewer
"…a strange, shining, souring thing brimming with beauty and terror, pain and love, insight and redemption."
-- Ursula Pflug, Internet Review of Science Fiction
"I am as delighted as other readers will be with this young Newfoundland writer. With talent and patience Kate Story has
unearthed another of the many mysteries hidden within the Southside Hills."
-- Bernice Morgan, author of Random Passage and Cloud of Bone
“Altogether the narrative tide of Blasted lifts its themes and characters and carries them forward in an irresistible flow.
Throughout, Story writes with energy, vivacity, a lack of self-pity, a clear eye for detail, and a great sense of comic
timing. This is a wonderful novel.”
-- The Newfoundland Quarterly, December 2008
“A stunning first novel.”
-- Susan Dyment, The Peterborough Examiner
" ... the best novel I've read in a very long time."
-- Em Glasspool, Artistic Director, Mysterious Entity Theatre
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August 22, 2008
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August 29, 2008
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| Click here to see Peterborough Examiner's online video from the Blasted Book Launch Artspace - Aug. 28, 2008 |
Check out the...
TEAM Blasted BOOK TOUR
Photo Gallery & Travelogue
See where our travels led!
TEAM Blasted BOOK TOUR
Photo Gallery & Travelogue
See where our travels led!
The Link, Montreal
September 8, 2008
September 8, 2008
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| Click here to read Sharon Hunt's book review from CURRENT Magazine Sept. 18, 2008 |
The Labradorian
September 29, 2008
September 29, 2008
| From an interview with Andy Jones By Michael Posner Globe & Mail, October 8, 2008 Posner: "What's the last great book you've read?" Jones: "I've been reading a lot of work by British novelist William Boyd. I really like his stuff. And I've just started to read Blasted, by Kate Story, who's from St. John's, and I'm really enjoying that." |
| Click here to listen to an interview with Kate on CBC Radio's "The Weekend Arts Magazine" - Hosted by Angela Antle October 8, 2008 |
| Click to read from Melanie K's Blog: Review of Blasted Interview with Kate September 28, 2008 September 29, 2008 |
Peterborough Examiner - October 25, 2008
| Click here to read Jim Bartley's book review from The Globe and Mail November 22, 2008 |
| Click here to read book review from The Newfoundland Quarterly December 2008 |
| Click here to read Ursula Pflug's book review from The Internet Review of Science Fiction December 2008 |
The Globe and Mail
November 22, 2008
November 22, 2008
Broken Pencil
Issue #41
The Comedy Issue
Issue #41
The Comedy Issue
The Northeast Avalon Times, St. John's, NL
December 2008
December 2008
Kate was chosen as one of the 29 finalists (from over 2200 entries) in the 2008 CBC Literary Contest in the
short story category. See www.cbc.ca/literaryawards for details. Kate's nominated story is entitled Runaway.
short story category. See www.cbc.ca/literaryawards for details. Kate's nominated story is entitled Runaway.
Peterborough Examiner - February 25, 2009
Owen Sound Sun Times - February 6, 2009
Downhome Magazine,
St. John's NL - November 2008
St. John's NL - November 2008
Kate's novel Blasted has received an Honourable Mention in the Adult Category of the 2009 Sunburst Awards. The
Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a juried award based on excellence of writing in two
categories: adult and young adult. The awards are presented annually to Canadian writers with a speculative fiction novel
or book-length collection of speculative fiction published any time during the previous calendar year.
Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a juried award based on excellence of writing in two
categories: adult and young adult. The awards are presented annually to Canadian writers with a speculative fiction novel
or book-length collection of speculative fiction published any time during the previous calendar year.
Blasted has been longlisted for the 2009 ReLit Awards: “The country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses.” - The Globe & Mail.
See therelitawards.blogspot.com/ for details.
See therelitawards.blogspot.com/ for details.
| Click here to listen to the radio program "Author's Hour" with host Mike Minor. Broadcast on Oct. 27, 2009 on both MUN Radio CHMR 93.5FM, St. John's NL and Trent Radio CFFF 92.7FM, Peterborough, ON. The hour features an in-depth interview with Kate, clips from recordings of her Blasted Book Tour with musicians Curtis Driedger & Derek Bell, a song by host Mike Minor, and the poetry of Mic Mac poet Rita Joe. (File may take a few minutes to load - please be patient.) |
Peterborough Examiner - November 28, 2009