Book Review: The Volcano of Fire
04 Jul 2014
It's 8 out of 10 for Geronimo.
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I give this 9 out of 10, says Isabella.
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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....
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Who doesn't love a character with a beard? We had a whole workshop's worth of them.
Read More27 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 Her short story collection Foreign Soil won the Victoria Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished...
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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...
Read More25 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...
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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...
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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.”...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Read More29 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...
Read More29 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...
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Book Title: Ivory RoseAuthor: Belinda Murrell Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 978-1-74275-071-2 Reviewed by: Lisa A girl called Jemma has excitedly gotten her first job as a babysitter, but her job is in...
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