Not sure if there is a setting to do this, though it might be an interesting category option - particularly for this and similar use cases like journals.
At the very least these listings can be done via URL query.
Depending on which order you want, you could add this query to the end of your category string, and then share or display that URL with users in some way such as Topic List Sidebars
?order=created&ascending=true
?order=created&ascending=false
For example, here is the community section here at meta, but sorted from the first created topic to the most recently created:
https://meta.discourse.org/c/community/65/?order=created&ascending=true