Story Factory

Have you ever had a nightmare you can't quite explain? In this workshop students explore prose poetry and surrealism as they prepare to write their own short horror narrative based on an alien invasion. They learn strategies for ideating and...

In this one off workshop participants will be inspired by the fascinating tradition of Rorschach inkblots and the possibilities they offer to explore individual perspectives and create rich and playful metaphors and symbols in writing. They will use the award...

Looking for practical and engaging ways to enrich your students' understanding of the relationship between reading and writing? In this two hour workshop students will be exposed to diverse and appealing mentor texts (including contemporary poetry, multimodal and digital texts...

Looking for a way to inspire and motivate your Year 12 students as they tackle Module C? In this two hour workshop students will engage with a rich mentor text by a contemporary Afro-American music writer and draft short and achievable...

So, as you may or may have not noticed, InstaPoetry is pretty big! This workshop introduces students to this rich and exploding new genre, explores the interesting ways its multimodal nature is being used inventively by contemporary poets, and leads...

We know the story of the Gingerbread Man. We know how it ends. But what about how it begins? Students from Willmot Public School (Baran, Lachlan, David and Jonathan) present an unusual take on the classic fable: the first few...

Want to give your reader the ookie spookies? Leave them a bit… freaked out? Then this workshop is perfect for you! Students will aim to develop a short piece of horror prose poetry about an alien invasion in their very...

What is freedom to you? It means different things to different people at different times. What if you could build your very own freedom machine? What would it look like? How would it move? Where would it take you? In...

Come to outer space with us! This term students will use poetic scaffolds and frameworks to write poetry and stories about different aspects of space. Students will practise observation, integrate sensory descriptions, and imagine communications with the outer reaches of...

“Smells like teen writing…” In this workshop series students will learn about features of discursive writing and create a series of short responses or segments that will accumulate to become a personal essay about the olfactory world. From surveying their...

Short genre narratives and monologues "Have you heard this story? It happened to a friend of a friend of mine..." Using Jess Bellamy's script Compass as a starting point, students will imagine their own class trip to the bush. Students...

You are what you eat! In this workshop series students develop and share their personal voice as they build their skills as writers of memoir, short narratives and poetry. Over eight workshops students engage with a delicious and diverse range...

Have you ever wondered about your future, your destiny? Students this term will explore geographical storytelling, character development, narrative obstacles and more as they write an adventure story that allows them to discover who they are, and who they want...

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...