The Coconut Children out now!
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.
Read More04 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.
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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...
Read More20 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...
Read More06 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...
Read More30 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...
Read More14 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...
Read More12 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...
Read More30 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....
Read More25 Sep 2019
The CineVerse Project allows students to use the language of film and poetry to investigate things that matter to young people.
Read More05 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.
Read More30 Aug 2019
In the second phase of Art Write Light, our year-long collaboration with Bangarra Dance Theatre, we’re offering free poetry workshops to schools in Western Sydney
Read More29 Aug 2019
For thousands of years people have known about the beneficial effects of reading and writing. That's why we created our new project, Prescription Poetry.
29 Jul 2019
90 teachers, 3 Storytellers and 1 exciting Robot Birds workshop.
Read More03 Jul 2019
An exciting new 3 year program partnering with contemporary artists from different disciplines. First up, Kaine Sultan Babij from Bangarra Dance Theatre.
Read More27 Jun 2019
Year 12 students at Alexandria Park Community School worked with us to write personal responses to the 2019 NAIDOC Week themes of Truth, Voice and Treaty. Here we share three of them, by Intan, Reece and Siu.
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