14 Aug 2013

The team at Random House Australia – with help from Sydney Story Factory volunteer, Kate Boyle – stormed it home in the City to Surf last weekend. In the process...

08 Aug 2013

It’s been an action-packed first year and we are thrilled to announce we’ve had nearly 1,500 student enrolments. Students have come from a wide range of backgrounds, and nearly 100...

08 Aug 2013

It’s hard to believe, but the Sydney Story Factory is one year old! Last weekend we celebrated our birthday with two great parties for the  donors, supporters and volunteers who...

28 Jun 2013

The extraordinary team who created our Martian Embassy – for free – has been acknowledged with the Premier’s Prize at the NSW Australian Institute of Architects Awards last night. Oh,...

25 Jun 2013

  This term the journalists here at the Sydney Story Factory wrote some of the most compelling and Earth (or Mars) shattering news articles of the year. We received inside...

23 Jun 2013

This week ABC News came in to see what we’ve been up to, and had a chat with Richard, our Story-Teller in Chief, our Co-Founder Cath, and some of the...

19 Jun 2013

Huge thanks to Katie Hatch and Lauren Quinn at Pigeonhole Gatherings for the sweet success of our cake stall/bake sale at the Redwater Markets last Saturday. We raised over $850,...

11 Jun 2013

It’s official – We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen with illustrations by Helen Oxenbury is officially Sydney’s favourite children’s book. Over the last few weeks, the Sydney...

07 Jun 2013

Recently we held a competition, where we asked teenagers state-wide to send in a piece of writing for our upcoming publication, Whelp. Judged by our Storytelling Team and other students,...

03 Jun 2013

Bonnie the bluebird’s black plaits rise up in the air, off to the blue sky.   Bird floating on string Gliding high, free in the sky It makes me happy....

31 May 2013

Last Sunday saw an intrepid band of budding magazine editors brave the cold warehouse spaces of the Sydney wharfs to create zines based on the goings on of the Sydney...

28 May 2013

You have until Sunday 9th June to vote for your favourite children’s book at these excellent bookshops: Berkelouw Books, 19 Oxford Street, Paddington, or 6-8 O’Connell Street, Newtown, or 70...

24 May 2013

VOTE NOW FOR YOUR FAVOURITE CHILDREN’S BOOK You could win a prize – or see the book given a new cover by a leading Australian artist. Are you a Roald...

24 May 2013

We love a smiling face! Meet Natalie, a year 11 student, fabulous young writer and winner of our very first writing competition. Read her piece, “Dear Parents” in the first...

23 May 2013

Our first radio play! My gosh it was amusing and at times loud work. Pop Stars and Space Ships was created by a group of primary students and some wonderful...