She began writing humorous stories and commentaries based on the rural German-Canadian Lutheran farming community she was raised within in 1950.
[2] In 1950,[3] having received encouragement from her husband to express herself in writing,[5] she began to author funny stories and commentaries based on rural life she grew up in.
[2][4] Story's works were broadcast on CBC Radio,[2] and she made literary reports from her Vanscoy, Saskatchewan home for the network.
[6] In 1978, she earned the Saskatchewan Culture & Youth Poetry Prize, giving her the W. O. Mitchell bursary,[7] and a CBC Radio Literary Award two years later.
[3] From 1984 to 1985, Story was made writer-in-residence of Prince Albert by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild as part of Saskatchewan's government resident artist program,[3][9] the Saskatoon Public Library between September 1986 and July 1987,[10] the University of Winnipeg in 1988,[3] the Moose Jaw Public Library until July 1991,[11][12] and was appointed the same role of the Yukon Territory in the North of Canada,[13] serving from September 1991 to February 1992.
Story spent a lot of time teaching writing at sponsored workshops staged by the Guild and writer-in-residence programs.
They've left behind the angst-ridden, 30-something years, where the preoccupations were making a living, fleeting romances and the stresses of the competitive, materialistic world.