Click here to download Telling Stories: Volume 1 Telling Stories is a collection of 30 writing prompts for writers, artists, and entrepreneurs. They've been...

I am a descendent of the people without names remembered only in the water that holds every soul she has ever been gifted jealously. When I pass her, she ask...

“either tell the story four ways or not at all” – “Victorian Quartet,” Adèle Barclay When I was a kid my father told me a bedtime story about a fish whose tai...

Mercedes Caxaj, Co-artistic Director of one of Canada’s largest world music festivals, speaks to Last Draft’s Hillary Watson about how she is navigating her wa...

Becky Han spoke to The Last Draft’s Lena Slanisky about tech, tweets, and teaching Inuktitut online. Becky Han is an Inuk musician who was born in Arctic Ba...

Writing prompts to spark authentic connection.

I am a descendent of the people without names remembered only in the water that holds every soul she has ever been gifted jealously. When I pass her, she ask...

Last Draft is proud to share a spoken word performance of the poem Black Power Dance by Brandon Wint. Black Power Dance can be found in print in Brandon Win...

The Grass Stain Sessions is a video series that explores the sense of human connection music and art provide. The videos feature musicians sharing two songs an...

The Grass Stain Sessions is a video series that explores the sense of human connection music and art provide. The videos feature musicians sharing two songs an...

The Grass Stain Sessions is a video series that explores the sense of human connection music and art provide. The videos feature musicians sharing two songs an...

The Living Room Sessions is a video series that explores the sense of human connection music and art provide. The videos feature musicians sharing two songs an...

The Living Room Sessions is a video series that explores the sense of human connection music and art provide. The videos feature musicians sharing two songs an...

The Living Room Sessions is a video series that explores the sense of human connection music and art provide. The videos feature musicians sharing two songs an...

“either tell the story four ways or not at all." When I was a kid my father told me a bedtime story about a fish whose tail went swish. As the story came to an end, I felt plagued with inexplicable dread. I was certain once the story ended the characters would vanish from existence.

Living put to words and song We learn that struggle Can become a journey And there is more To the wanderer’s drift Than a listless privilege

What’s in a story? Limitless potential, our collective history, our unbound future. Everything is contained within a story. The whole sum of the Universe is ...

“Stories are existential. Not just inseparable from the way we communicate and play out our lives, but actually the very basis of our existence.” – Jacob Sandl...

“Stories provide connection. Connection to ourselves, to others, to the earth, even across space and time.” – Hillary Watson, Illustrator + Editor I think I’d...

“Stories bring people together in the most universal ways and the most minuscule. They are both finite and infinite, reminding us how connected we inevitably a...