09 Apr 2020

Okay, a bit of an insight into teaching. There’s this thing teachers talk about called the instructional conversation, which is the conversation students and teachers have during the learning process. Basically...

09 Apr 2020

We asked some of our Year of Novella students to write for us what life is like now they are learning from home. We really have to hand it to...

09 Apr 2020

Goodbye Term One, we barely knew you. The first term of 2020 will surely go down in history as one of the most disrupted terms that Australian students have ever...

02 Apr 2020

We asked our storytellers for their top tips for parents and kids adjusting to learning at home. Their biggest tip? Take it easy on yourself! We’re all adjusting to this...

17 Mar 2020

Because we, as always, want to prioritise the health, wellbeing and safety of our students, volunteers and all in the community, Story Factory has wound up delivery of Term One...

04 Mar 2020

Vivian Pham’s debut novel of love, self-discovery and Western Sydney is out now and available from the Story Factory Bookshop. Grab your copy today in our Redfern centre or HERE.

04 Mar 2020

We are thrilled to open the doors to Story Factory’s inaugural Writers in Residence Program. We are offering eight emerging to established writers a safe, inclusive place to write and...

20 Feb 2020

Vivian Pham ‘Vivian shows a new Australia here, tied to her place and time but touching on universal themes of longing — and the alternately profound and ludicrous angst of...

06 Feb 2020

Nafisa has worked in education for more than 30 years as a teacher and principal. She left her job, in India, five years ago and moved to Australia to support...

30 Jan 2020

By Valerie Strauss for The Washington Post 7.1.2020 In 2002, the nationally renowned author Dave Eggers (“A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” “The Circle,” “What Can a Citizen Do?”) started a nonprofit...

14 Jan 2020

To begin 2020 we are thrilled to welcome our new Volunteer Manager to Story Factory – Thuy. Thuy grew up in Cabramatta and always dreamed of living and working in...

12 Dec 2019

The release recently of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) literacy and numeracy test results painted a less than ideal picture of Australian education standards. In fact, Australian students...

30 Sep 2019

‘We Talk Project’ by Caoimhe Deering  First published in WHAT WE SEEK an anthology of 115 contributions from youth delegates at the International Congress of Youth Voices, published by McSweeney’s....

25 Sep 2019

The CineVerse Project allows students to use the language of film and poetry to investigate things that matter to young people.

05 Sep 2019

We’re thrilled to announce that in 2020 we’ll be partnering with Bankstown Youth Development Service and three Bankstown High Schools to run a major project centred on… the contentious theft of a lemon tree.