04 Jul 2014

It begins with a tax lawyer, yet Violet gives this 10 out of 10.

04 Jul 2014

It's 8 out of 10 for Geronimo.

04 Jul 2014

I give this 9 out of 10, says Isabella.

04 Jul 2014

Book Title: The Strange Adventures of Isador BrownAuthor: Ursula Dubosarsky Publisher: Puffin Books ISBN: 978-1-740-301-589 RRP: $11.95 Reviewed by: Sascha (9) This is a book about adventure and excitement. The main character is Isador Brown....

02 Jul 2014

Who doesn't love a character with a beard? We had a whole workshop's worth of them.

27 Jun 2014

We are delighted that poet, essayist and fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke is our next guest at Factory Talks. Her short story collection Foreign Soil won the Victoria Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished...

04 Jun 2014

Do you have a taste for crime? The healthiest way to indulge it would be to come along to our next Factory Talks on Tuesday June 17, when best-selling crime...

25 May 2014

This collaborative story was written by four groups of young writers on  Sunday 25th May, at our Exquisite Genres workshop at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. PART 1 Virginia, 1862, August...

25 May 2014

This collaborative story was written by four groups of young writers on Sunday 25th May at our Exquisite Genres workshop at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.  Part 1 Kazoo Webfoot hopped...

25 May 2014

This collaborative story was written by four groups of young writers on Sunday the 25th May at our Exquisite Genres workshop at the Sydney Writer’s Festival.  Part 1 “Excuse me.”...

25 May 2014

 This collaborative story was written by four groups of young writers on Sunday 25th May, at our Exquisite Genres workshop at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.  Part 1 ‘Do you have...

20 May 2014

Failure. It’s the grit that creativity turns into a pearl. In his recent TEDx talk, the wonderful Markus Zusak – author of The Book Thief and Sydney Story Factory board...

12 May 2014

For six months now, we have been working on Home, a community writing project about Redfern/Waterloo. This story was written during a Home workshop last term with students from Alexandria...

29 Apr 2014

After our holiday workshop with the amazing Wendy Fitzgerald, we’ve been flooded with terrific book reviews written by our talented students. You can read them all in the Student Writing...

29 Apr 2014

That’s right, she’s the talk of the town since being long-listed for the Miles Franklin award recently, and we’re very excited to have Fiona McFarlane visiting us on Tuesday May...