All Story Factory programs align closely with the syllabus to support teachers achieving their goals.
We work with schools in many ways:
- One-off workshops: bring a class to visit us for a two-hour blast of creative writing inspiration at our beautifully-designed creative writing centres in Redfern or Parramatta.
- Term Programs: book us to come to your school. We can work with you to deliver a writing program once a week for a term, or multiple terms.
- Residency Programs: once you’ve tried the above, apply to become a Story Factory Residency School. We’ll commit to working with your students for at least a year, working with multiple classes, to create a culture of writing throughout the school.
All programs, whether they run for two hours or a term, end with the publication of students’ writing in a handsomely bound book which they can take home to share with their family and community.
Enquire for a free writing workshop series via: info@storyfactory.org.au
Term-long workshops

Pixie Power
- Stage 2
- Term 1 (term-long)
- In person
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 pixie power! Students will explore the secret, magical inner workings of machines, modes of transport, and the English language itself! In this workshop series students will grow their capacity to transfer creative ideas into writing and develop an understanding of concepts of characterisation and narration.

Creating Cryptids
- Stage 3
- Term 1 (term-long)
- In person
Students will play the part of an acclaimed cryptozoologist and ‘discover’ a never-before-seen cryptid. Students will learn about cryptids from around the world (from the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland to El Chupacabra in Mexico and the Yowie from Australian Aboriginal culture) and invent their own. They will then write about their created cryptid each week through different text types such as information reports, interviews, news articles, advertisements, exposition, and narrative. Students will develop their skills in making creative choices, descriptive writing, writing for purpose and audience, and persuasive language.

Ghost Stories
- Stage 4
- Term 1 (term-long)
- In person
Welcome to Ghost Stories. In this workshop series students are inspired by spooky texts from around the world and then use their imagination to create their own take on ghost fiction. Over eight workshops students learn about the conventions of ghost fiction, engage in character and world building and create spooky poems and pieces of short fiction that evoke a pleasing terror in their readers.

Friendlies
- Stage 4
- Term 1 (term-long)
- In person
In this workshop series students will plan and write a contemporary short story in the YA genre that explores a friendship between two imagined characters. They will begin by engaging in world and character building and devising a story map before describing the challenges facing and the journey of this friendship in a series of 4-5 short scenes or vignettes. Students will explore the concept of friendship through a diverse range of mentor texts by local and international authors.

Snapshots
- Stage 5
- Term 1 (term-long)
- In person
Think of the small moments in time that are significant in our lives, or that contribute to the story of who we are. How do you capture that moment on camera? In words? Who takes the picture? What happens outside the frame? What stories do they tell? In this workshop series, students will consider the relationship between photography and poetry and create short poems, vignettes and flash fiction pieces inspired by the work of a range of local and international writers, and visual and photographic artists, as well their own photographs.