Systems and methods for an ephemeral digital story channel may include (1) maintaining a primary story channel for a user of a social networking platform in which the user may post digital story compositions, (2) determining that a particular time period coincides with a life event of the user, (3) maintaining, during the time period, an additional story channel for the life event in which the user and the user's contacts may post digital story compositions, such that the social networking platform is maintaining both the primary story channel and the additional story channel during the time period, and (4) discontinuing, after the time period, the additional story channel while continuing to maintain the primary story channel. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.