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
The Pirate’s Guide (Online)
- After-School Program – Term 4
- Monday 21 October to Monday 9 December
- 4pm-5.30pm
- Online
- For primary school students, years 3-6
The Pirate’s Guide – Monday (online)
Fasten your tricorns and polish your blades. The Pirates Guide will arm every young swashbuckling scallywag with the literary skills they need for a life of sea-faring, kraken-killing and treasure-nicking. In this program, students will engage in creating nuanced character narratives, developing exciting worlds, plotting persuasive mutinies, and crafting vivid descriptions. So you want to be a pirate? Let’s get stAAARRRRRRRRted.
This program is currently booked out. For any queries, please reach us at students@storyfactory.org.au
The Pirate’s Guide (In-person)
- After-School Program – Term 4
- Tuesday 22 October to Tuesday 10 December
- 4pm-5.30pm
- In-person at Story Factory Parramatta, 90 George St, Parramatta, Burramattagal Land, NSW 2150
- For primary school students, years 3-6
The Pirate’s Guide – Tuesday (In-person)
Fasten your tricorns and polish your blades. The Pirates Guide will arm every young swashbuckling scallywag with the literary skills they need for a life of sea-faring, kraken-killing and treasure-nicking. In this program, students will engage in creating nuanced character narratives, developing exciting worlds, plotting persuasive mutinies, and crafting vivid descriptions. So you want to be a pirate? Let’s get stAAARRRRRRRRted.
Enrolments for Term 4 are now closed. For any queries, please reach us at students@storyfactory.org.au
Art Attack (Online)
- After-School Program – Term 4
- Thursday 24 October to Thursday 12 December
- 4.00pm-5.30pm
- Online
- For primary school students, years 3-6
Art Attack – Thursday (Online)
Kick your creativity into gear with an Art Attack! In this 8-week workshop series, students will explore visual images by contemporary artists – including Australian and First Nations creators – from around the world, and experiment with how such representations can inspire writing that is personal, inventive and powerful. The end result will be a portfolio of writing that may include short narratives, poetry, and multimodal texts… but really it depends on where our imaginations take us!
This program is currently booked out. For any queries, please reach us at students@storyfactory.org.au
Deadly Writing (Online)
- After-School Program – Term 4
- Tuesday 22 October to Tuesday 10 December
- 4pm – 5.30pm
- Online
- For high school students, years 7-10
Deadly Writing (Tuesday – online)
This workshop explores significant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices. Each week, students will explore a range of texts crafted by First Nations artists and use it as inspiration for their own writing. They will learn about Indigenous cultures and languages from diverse communities around Australia, and will explore their own experiences and values as they write a series of short pieces of writing, producing a personal anthology. Students will learn about and experiment with a variety of editing strategies as they prepare their own writing for publication. Deadly, unna?
Enrolments for Term 4 are now closed. For any queries, please reach us at students@storyfactory.org.au
How to be a Writer (In-person)
- After-school program – Term 4
- Thursday 24 October to Thursday 12 December
- 3pm – 4.30pm
- In-person at Chifley College Shalvey Campus, 22 Noumea St, Shalvey NSW 2770
- For high school students, years 7-12
How to be a Writer – Thursday (in-person)
These workshops are being run at Chifley College Shalvey Campus, 22 Noumea St, Shalvey. Doors open at 2:30pm with a 3pm workshop start time. The workshop finishes at 4:30pm, and there will be food available. Students from other schools are welcome to attend.
At Story Factory, we believe that all students are curious about the world and have a means to put their imprint on it. These after school workshops are student-led, and will provide a safe, creative space for students to express themselves and lean into the joy of writing. Each workshop will follow a similar sequence but topics and content will be guided by the students’ interests.
Students will have the option to either complete a number of short pieces of writing or a longer, more developed work across the term to be published and released to the community.
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