02 May 2013

Do you have a short story, novel, poem or play you would like to write? At Sydney Story Factory, the Free Writers Guild meets between 10am and 12noon to work...

02 May 2013

The Body in the Mist by Anastasia Scoggin ‘Be quiet or I’ll leave you on the side of the road!’ Theo’s mum Susan yelled into the back of the car....

01 May 2013

We’re very excited because in the April school holidays, we celebrated our 1,000th student enrolment! Since opening in July last year we’ve had  1,000 enrolments in our classes, thanks to...

01 May 2013

During first term the Kool Kids from Weave Youth Family and Community in Maroubra visited the Story Factory for a series of after school workshops. Over six weeks they managed...

01 May 2013

The Australian Storytelling Guild is holding writing competitions for students in years 5&6 and 7&8 in all NSW schools. For the NSW State Storytelling Competition, the first prize winner will...

30 Apr 2013

Villains aplenty at the Richard III workshop. As you can see from the picture, there were some problems between Richard III and his brothers! It was nothing compared with the...

30 Apr 2013

Yep. From our Fairytales reboot workshop, here’s Marcus reinventing Cinderella as Cyberella and the Glass Laser Death Crystal. “It’s the year 6000…Deep in the heart of suburban Mars, there lives...

30 Apr 2013

No green cheese here! We talked until the sun went down…the holiday students came up with some wonderful moon myths at our recent workshop. This opening for a bedtime story...

24 Apr 2013

We’re very happy to be working with the Australian Theatre for Young People next term. We’ll be running a series of five workshops for high school students beginning Tuesday, 14th May. Students...

16 Apr 2013

Sydney Story Factory volunteer Oliver Downes will be spending the upcoming school holidays training for the Sydney Morning Herald Half Marathon on 19th May. He’ll then run the long race...

03 Apr 2013

We’ve been hard at work printing, binding and recording all the student work for term one. The students have produced some amazing work; a newspaper, heaps of Choose Your Own...

03 Apr 2013

News for the ones who need news. We’re proud to present the latest edition of the SSF newspaper. All the info you’ll ever need – from the zucchini invasion to...

03 Apr 2013

Last week the grade six students from Toongabbie Christian School dropped in for a group of bookmaking workshops. Marcia the Librarian whipped them into a literary frenzy. Here’s their start...

03 Apr 2013

Extracts from the Choose Your Own Adventure stories, highlights from the radio play – Pop Stars and Spaceships…stayed tuned to EZ6 Radio, and scenes from a murder mystery script written...

23 Feb 2013

Late breaking news teenagers…you now have until Tuesday 12th of March to enter our writing competition!!     Open Letter to Teenagers  One Direction are pregnant! Yes, all of them,...