diff --git a/packages/carbon-react/.storybook/main.js b/packages/carbon-react/.storybook/main.js
index 1352640a42ea..ca348a08bfdc 100644
--- a/packages/carbon-react/.storybook/main.js
+++ b/packages/carbon-react/.storybook/main.js
@@ -7,9 +7,51 @@
 
 'use strict';
 
+const fs = require('fs');
+const glob = require('fast-glob');
 const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin');
 const path = require('path');
 
+const stories = glob
+  .sync(
+    [
+      './Welcome/Welcome.stories.js',
+      '../src/**/*.stories.js',
+      '../src/**/*.stories.mdx',
+      '../../react/src/**/next/*.stories.js',
+      '../../react/src/**/next/*.stories.mdx',
+      '../../react/src/**/*-story.js',
+    ],
+    {
+      cwd: __dirname,
+    }
+  )
+  // Filters the stories by finding the paths that have a story file that ends
+  // in `-story.js` and checks to see if they also have a `.stories.js`,
+  // if so then defer to the `.stories.js`
+  .filter((match) => {
+    const filepath = path.resolve(__dirname, match);
+    const basename = path.basename(match, '.js');
+
+    if (basename.endsWith('-story')) {
+      const component = basename.replace(/-story$/, '');
+      const storyName = path.resolve(
+        filepath,
+        '..',
+        'next',
+        `${component}.stories.js`
+      );
+
+      if (fs.existsSync(storyName)) {
+        return false;
+      }
+
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    return true;
+  });
+
 module.exports = {
   addons: [
     {
@@ -32,13 +74,7 @@ module.exports = {
   features: {
     previewCsfV3: true,
   },
-  stories: [
-    './Welcome/Welcome.stories.js',
-    '../src/**/*.stories.js',
-    '../src/**/*.stories.mdx',
-    '../../react/src/**/next/*.stories.js',
-    '../../react/src/**/next/*.stories.mdx',
-  ],
+  stories,
   webpack(config) {
     const babelLoader = config.module.rules.find((rule) => {
       return rule.use.some(({ loader }) => {
diff --git a/packages/carbon-react/.storybook/preview.js b/packages/carbon-react/.storybook/preview.js
index 6867fb6a9fcb..2ddbd2fab609 100644
--- a/packages/carbon-react/.storybook/preview.js
+++ b/packages/carbon-react/.storybook/preview.js
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { white, g10, g90, g100 } from '@carbon/themes';
 import React from 'react';
 import { breakpoints } from '@carbon/layout';
 import { unstable_ThemeContext as ThemeContext } from '../src';
+import { addParameters } from '@storybook/react';
 
 export const globalTypes = {
   locale: {
@@ -132,6 +133,74 @@ export const parameters = {
   },
 };
 
+addParameters({
+  options: {
+    storySort: (storyA, storyB) => {
+      // By default, sort by the story "kind". The "kind" refers to the
+      // top-level title of the story, either through Component Story Format
+      // with the default export, or the `storiesOf('kind', module)` format
+      if (storyA[1].kind !== storyB[1].kind) {
+        return storyA[1].kind.localeCompare(storyB[1].kind);
+      }
+
+      const idA = storyA[0];
+      const idB = storyB[0];
+
+      // To story the stories, we first build up a list of matches based on
+      // keywords. Each keyword has a specific weight that will be used to
+      // determine order later on.
+      const UNKNOWN_KEYWORD = 3;
+      const keywords = new Map([
+        ['welcome', 0],
+        ['default', 1],
+        ['usage', 2],
+        ['playground', 4],
+        ['development', 5],
+        ['deprecated', 6],
+        ['unstable', 7],
+      ]);
+      const matches = new Map();
+
+      // We use this list of keywords to determine a collection of matches. By
+      // default, we will look for the greatest valued matched
+      for (const [keyword, weight] of keywords) {
+        // If we already have a match for a given id that is greater than the
+        // specific keyword we're looking for, break early
+        if (matches.get(idA) > weight || matches.get(idB) > weight) {
+          break;
+        }
+
+        // If we don't have a match already for either id, we check to see if
+        // the id includes the keyword and assigns the relevant weight, if so
+        if (idA.includes(keyword)) {
+          matches.set(idA, weight);
+        }
+
+        if (idB.includes(keyword)) {
+          matches.set(idB, weight);
+        }
+      }
+
+      // If we have matches for either id, then we will compare the ids based on
+      // the weight assigned to the matching keyword
+      if (matches.size > 0) {
+        const weightA = matches.get(idA) ?? UNKNOWN_KEYWORD;
+        const weightB = matches.get(idB) ?? UNKNOWN_KEYWORD;
+        // If we have the same weight for the ids, then we should compare them
+        // using locale compare instead of by weight
+        if (weightA === weightB) {
+          return idA.localeCompare(idB);
+        }
+        return weightA - weightB;
+      }
+
+      // By default, if we have no matches we'll do a locale compare between the
+      // two ids
+      return idA.localeCompare(idB);
+    },
+  },
+});
+
 configureActions({
   depth: 3,
   limit: 10,
diff --git a/packages/carbon-react/package.json b/packages/carbon-react/package.json
index 3a32a5bf1647..8a54ac9b84e4 100644
--- a/packages/carbon-react/package.json
+++ b/packages/carbon-react/package.json
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
     "babel-preset-carbon": "^0.2.0",
     "browserslist-config-carbon": "^10.6.1",
     "css-loader": "^6.5.1",
+    "fast-glob": "^3.2.7",
     "fs-extra": "^10.0.0",
     "mini-css-extract-plugin": "^2.4.5",
     "postcss": "^8.4.5",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 1316b694e733..61c6e6bec770 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2095,6 +2095,7 @@ __metadata:
     carbon-components-react: ^7.52.0-rc.0
     carbon-icons: ^7.0.7
     css-loader: ^6.5.1
+    fast-glob: ^3.2.7
     fs-extra: ^10.0.0
     mini-css-extract-plugin: ^2.4.5
     postcss: ^8.4.5