All workshops are facilitated by our Story Factory Storytellers and provide a safe and supportive space where young people can develop ideas and write. Guided by our expert staff, with support from their fellow writers, young people are empowered to create an extended, exciting piece of writing.
We’re running in-person and online workshops during term on Monday – Thursday for both primary school and high school students.
Sign up to our free writing workshops using the links below or email us at students@storyfactory.org.au
Feast
- After-school program – Term 4
- Mondays from 20 October – 8 December 2025
- 4pm – 5.30pm
- Online
- For primary school students, years 3-6
Good food, good mood! In this workshop series participants will create a feast for the senses as they share their lived experiences of the food and drink they know and love. This might be the morsels and meals they eat everyday or the treats and tidbits reserved for special occasions and celebrations. Across the term students will create a portfolio of a range of types of writing that serve up a menu memoir of their lives.
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A OH KAY!
- After-School Program – Term 4
- Tuesdays from 21 October – 9 December 2025
- 4pm – 5.30pm
- Online
- For high school students, years 7-10
In this workshop series students engage in an exploration of a collection of online hybrid writing in prose and poetry by US writer, school psychologist and educator Amy Kay. They use her individual pieces as inspiration for their own imaginative or discursive writing. Students will consider the relationship between reading and writing as they use both writing by Amy Kay and the mentor texts that inspired her published texts as the stimulus for their own creativity. This workshop series will culminate in a sequence of texts that reflect the students’ own experiences and how their reading shaped their choices and voices as writers.
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- After-School Program – Term 4
- Thursdays from 23 October – 11 December 2025
- 4.00pm – 5.30pm
- Online
- For primary school students, years 3-6
Origin Stories – Tuesday (In-person)
Imagine you could be a superhero. What would be your powers? What would be your vulnerabilities?
In Origin Stories students will focus on characterisations and create their own superhero and origin story. Mentor texts will focus on superheroes who explore and represent the diversity of their community.
Origin Stories gives young writers the opportunity to write in a range of formats (including interviews for television news and a talk show) as they develop their own rich and layered superhero characters.
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I Talk, It Echoes
- After-School Program – Term 4
- Mondays from 20 October – 8 December 2025
- 4pm – 5.30pm
- In-person at Story Factory Parramatta, 90 George St, Parramatta, Burramattagal Land, NSW 2150
- For high school students, years 7-10
In this workshop series participants will craft the character of an ‘alien buddy’ who seeks to share students’ expert knowledge of their local communities. The catch is that these recently arrived aliens, known as the Caesura, only communicate through poetry. Students will describe and transform their lived experience through different poetic forms including riddle haikus, list poems, landays, kennings, and odes. Students craft and share their expert opinions as they explore themes of identity, culture, and community.
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Scifaiku
- After-School Program – Term 4
- Tuesdays from 21 October – 9 December 2025
- 4pm – 5.30pm
- In-person at Story Factory Parramatta, 90 George St, Parramatta, Burramattagal Land, NSW 2150
- For primary school students, years 3-6
science fiction + haiku = scifaiku
It’s haiku, but not as you know it! In this workshop series participants will learn about the ancient Japanese art of haiku (short little poems) and transform them into a science fiction version known as scifaiku. Think robots, rockets, planets and aliens! You will have lots of fun and creative opportunities to make, craft, draw and paint as you create a futuristic world through tiny poems.
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- After-School Program – Term 4
- Thursdays from 23 October – 11 December 2025
- 4pm – 5.30pm
- In-person at Mt Druitt Learning Ground, Bidwell Square
- For primary school students, years 3-6
science fiction + haiku = scifaiku
It’s haiku, but not as you know it! In this workshop series participants will learn about the ancient Japanese art of haiku (short little poems) and transform them into a science fiction version known as scifaiku. Think robots, rockets, planets and aliens! You will have lots of fun and creative opportunities to make, craft, draw and paint as you create a futuristic world through tiny poems.
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