03 Jun 2018

Questions to lightningWhat’s your name Where do you come from? …a place that you couldn’t findThen what attracts you to Earth? …the beauty that shines Sooo who are you trying...

23 May 2018

Imagine if you didn’t have the writing skills and confidence necessary to do essential things like do well at school or successfully apply for a job. There are thousands of young people across Western Sydney for whom this is the reality. Will you help us turn things around for them, starting now?

17 May 2018

Since late 2017, we've been working with students from 2 primary schools and 2 high schools to write cli-fi (climate fiction), imagining the types of challenges and obstacles the future might hold. The creative results have been astonishing!

14 May 2018

In 2017, we engaged NSF Consulting to run independent evaluations of the impact of two of our programs on participating young people. And the results are very encouraging!

11 Mar 2018

Alena expertly crafts her worlds and plots, and has thrown herself into this term's projects.

09 Feb 2018

In late May we're opening an exciting new creative writing centre in Parramatta. We need your help! Get involved and let's launch Sydney Story Factory Parramatta with a bang, and start opening up the future for thousands of Western Sydney young people.

06 Feb 2018

Lilliarna worked with us last year to help kids from Willmot Public School write stories about their suburb. What an amazing award! We're so proud of you Lilliarna!

27 Jan 2018

Teachers who have taken part in our NESA-endorsed professional development workshops tell us that they're implementing what they learned straight away and are seeing real improvements in the creative writing abilities of their students. That's awesome!

14 Jan 2018

Sophie is our first Pen Pal student of the month! And she has just signed up to drive from Taree twice a term to take part in our Novella program, what a spectacular commitment!

12 Jan 2018

We asked visitors to our Yabun stall to contribute a line of poetry to answer the question 'What does January 26 mean to you?'

10 Dec 2017

At the beginning of the year a group of brave young writers embarked on the Year of the Novella 2017. Their goal was to produce not just a fistful of poems, or a story, or a script but a fully realised novella. And they aced it!

06 Dec 2017

Jesse is basically a personified cyclone. He has a gigantic brain protected within a maelstrom of physicality that will often see him - literally - climbing the walls as he grapples with his story ideas.

24 Nov 2017

In 2016-17 over 3,300 students wrote up a storm in our creative writing workshops. That includes 416 young people we got to know by setting up residencies in their schools, and the seven awesome teens from Youth Off The Streets who wrote protest poems that impressed our socks off. It was an amazing year!

16 Nov 2017

It's official. State of Mind, the book, is now launched! In Term 4 we've wrapped up what's been an absolutely amazing two year project with return visits to regional NSW and a big fat launch party in Fairfield. There were 6-word selfies. And doughnuts.

09 Nov 2017

To start Term 4 we were invited to take part in a fantastic project in Mt Druitt, with students from Willmot Public School and Chifley College. The high school students became tutors for the primary school students - and the results were amazing.