Have you ever had to send something back? Complained to the manager? Demanded a refund? Maybe you’re too polite… but just imagine… you were pushed to your limits… by ghosts! Apply Now

In this workshop students are asked to imagine what a hungry monster living under their couch might look and sound like. Students will be guided line by line as they construct a narrative poem about their first encounter with them...

Creative writing workshops for Primary students, Years 3-6. This workshop is for everyone interested in becoming a better writer, telling stories, and sharing them with more people! Apply Now

Control Alt. Edit is designed to support the development of ideas and writing. Young people will create a piece of writing with encouragement from our Storytellers and fellow students. If you’re feeling stuck with your writing, or you’re...

When we write creatively, we invent entire universes. Whether in a poem or a short story, writers need to know how to make their writing believable. In this workshop, we practice making writing that feels genuine, inspired, and exciting. Join...

We are always amazed at how unreal the writers we work with are, so we made this creative writing program just for them! If you are in primary school, and want to get better at creative writing, join this weekly...

Year of the Novella; and Year of Poetry; are our open programs for High School aged young people who love to write and want to stretch themselves creatively. In weekly writing workshops in the course of a year, students commit...

A User’s Guide to a Pandemic was an idea that started during the national lockdown in 2020. The idea was simple – that young people needed to write about this. Four writing centres for young people across the country joined together...

The Parramatta Female Factory is an important site in the colourful history of colonial New South Wales. Since 1821 it’s been an orphanage, prison, asylum, medical facility and school. In Art and the Institution, Story Factory has partnered with the...

Art Write Light is a free creative writing project curated by Story Factory, that connects Australian artists with young people in an explosion of creativity over three colourful years. This project creates opportunities for students to creatively respond to the...

CineVerse is a Story Factory Big Project spanning four high schools in Western Sydney, five emerging film-makers, over 80 poems and up to 20 short films. Cinematic in both scope and vision, CineVerse allows teenagers from widespread communities to use the language...

Marvellous Birds is a creative writing and storytelling project for Years 5 and 6 students. It investigated the feathered beauty of some truly incredible birds. Through carefully scaffolded creative writing activities, students explored themes such as community, camaraderie, displacement, environmental change, migration...

In this Story Factory partnership with the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy (NASCA) and the State Library of NSW, students are immersed in a world of books and history. In site visits to the Library, students will create a collection...

For thousands of years people have known about the beneficial effects of reading and writing: bibliotherapy. But what about Instagram therapy? And what happens when you combine the two? In a Story Factory Big Project for 2019-20 teenagers are writing...

We’re Writing to Say... is a Story Factory project that aimed to creatively document the lived experience of young people during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the shared experience of a truly unprecedented year, the project connected young people with...

All Story Factory creative writing workshops are carefully designed to encourage kids to use their imagination, to scaffold their writing to help them write more than ever have before, to use encouragement and fun to give kids the confidence to...

Do you know how toasters work? What about laptops? What about your school bus? Or an ocean liner?! It turns out a lot of the everyday machines we interact with don't run on electricity, or petrol, or microchips - it's...

What are you obsessed with? This workshop gives students the opportunity to explore the world of fandom, using the hit play FANGIRLS by Yve Blake as a prompt and mentor text. Students will write samples of monologues, duologues, 'I Want'...

All Story Factory creative writing workshops are carefully designed to encourage kids to use their imagination, to scaffold their writing to help them write more than ever have before, to use encouragement and fun to give kids the confidence to...

Ever wondered what happens in your home or classroom when the lights turn off? Do you think the objects we interact with daily are happy about the job we give them? In this workshop program students will investigate the Secret...

Whoops! You're stuck on the other side of Australia and you've got to get home! Students will explore geographical storytelling, character development, narrative obstacles and more as they write a classic road trip adventure story about getting back home. Just...

You wake up. Everything seems normal. But the wi-fi is down? And the weather is weird? And did that bird just fly into an invisible dome that's now covering your entire town? It's time to get to the bottom of...

After a warm summer’s day the amusement park has ground down to a halt, as this giant playground of fun is slowly put to sleep. The fairy floss machine is cleaned and now dormant. The tunnel of terror is...

What would it be like to be The Invisible Man on his first day of Year 7? How does Medusa order coffee without turning the barista to stone? In this workshop series students will reimagine and retell the stories of villains...

All Story Factory creative writing workshops are carefully designed to encourage kids to use their imagination, to scaffold their writing to help them write more than ever have before, to use encouragement and fun to give kids the confidence to...

“This guy’s not breathing! Quick, check his pockets… Hang on, just how old is he?” Students will use creative problem solving and their comprehension skills to get to the bottom of a mysterious man and the items found in...

Students write two poems, one protesting an issue important to the student, and the other celebrating the best parts of the students’ world. Both pieces will be values-driven, and will explore a different poetic form. Students will leave with an...

When's the last time you stopped to smell the roses, let alone said thank you to the trees for giving you air? There are plenty of obstacles that keep us from connecting to nature, but a major one might be...

The world is rapidly changing - how will we keep track of it all? Students will investigate the genre of Climate Fiction, where extreme weather leads to extraordinary circumstances. Students will experiment with character development, cause and effect narratives, epistolary...

Students will look at a dramatic performance and then tell the personal story each actor is using to drive their performance. It’s fiction…but also drama!