Stories We Don’t Tell: The Book.

Stories We Don’t Tell is a live storytelling event held in living rooms across Toronto. For five years, hosts have warmly welcomed us and our audiences into their home where a lineup of performers share personal stories about their lives. Some stories are sad, or a little weird, or intimate, and others funny.

This anthology includes 61 stories that were all told in front of a live audience at one of our shows. The authors of these stories have generously contributed these pieces of their lives to be included in this book.

Each story created a memorable moment in front of a roomful of people. Moving through this anthology is an experience where these many moments complement and reflect each other, contradict and draw parallels, have profound wisdom and absurdity. Welcome to the Stories We Don’t Tell.

Buy Now.

Paperback and ebook of Stories We Don’t Tell is available at these retailers and over 40 others around the world.

Listen to the SWDT Podcast.

The podcast includes stories recorded live from the event. In addition to a new story every episode, the hosts of the show discuss a different element of storytelling. There are almost a 150 episodes and more coming.

Read this Behind-the-Scenes Article.

To mark our fifth anniversary, we decided to take a look back and publish a book that included stories that were performed at the event. We settled on sixty-one stories and set off to put it all together. The clock was ticking, and in order to accomplish this for our fifth anniversary, we had to produce the book in four months. That’s a pretty tight turnaround time. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the process we went through to make it happen.

Book Launch.

We made a book! This gallery is from the official book launch that happened on October 17, 2019. Thank you to all the contributors to the book, all our storytellers, everyone that made this night a huge success, and of course the audience. Photographs by Tyler Blacquiere.