11 Mar 2018

Alena expertly crafts her worlds and plots, and has thrown herself into this term's projects.

09 Feb 2018

In late May we're opening an exciting new creative writing centre in Parramatta. We need your help! Get involved and let's launch Sydney Story Factory Parramatta with a bang, and start opening up the future for thousands of Western Sydney young people.

06 Feb 2018

Lilliarna worked with us last year to help kids from Willmot Public School write stories about their suburb. What an amazing award! We're so proud of you Lilliarna!

27 Jan 2018

Teachers who have taken part in our NESA-endorsed professional development workshops tell us that they're implementing what they learned straight away and are seeing real improvements in the creative writing abilities of their students. That's awesome!

14 Jan 2018

Sophie is our first Pen Pal student of the month! And she has just signed up to drive from Taree twice a term to take part in our Novella program, what a spectacular commitment!

12 Jan 2018

We asked visitors to our Yabun stall to contribute a line of poetry to answer the question 'What does January 26 mean to you?'

10 Dec 2017

At the beginning of the year a group of brave young writers embarked on the Year of the Novella 2017. Their goal was to produce not just a fistful of poems, or a story, or a script but a fully realised novella. And they aced it!

06 Dec 2017

Jesse is basically a personified cyclone. He has a gigantic brain protected within a maelstrom of physicality that will often see him - literally - climbing the walls as he grapples with his story ideas.

24 Nov 2017

In 2016-17 over 3,300 students wrote up a storm in our creative writing workshops. That includes 416 young people we got to know by setting up residencies in their schools, and the seven awesome teens from Youth Off The Streets who wrote protest poems that impressed our socks off. It was an amazing year!

16 Nov 2017

It's official. State of Mind, the book, is now launched! In Term 4 we've wrapped up what's been an absolutely amazing two year project with return visits to regional NSW and a big fat launch party in Fairfield. There were 6-word selfies. And doughnuts.

09 Nov 2017

To start Term 4 we were invited to take part in a fantastic project in Mt Druitt, with students from Willmot Public School and Chifley College. The high school students became tutors for the primary school students - and the results were amazing.

08 Oct 2017

In 2016 we travelled 3,000 kilometres to run writing workshops with 800+ teenage in 35 schools across New South Wales. And now.. the book! State of Mind is a simply awesome collection of poems, stories and memoirs from teens from all walks of life. Buy yours now!

04 Oct 2017

Victoria is a wonderful presence in workshops, always willing to share her work and thoughtfully comment on the work of other students.

08 Sep 2017

Our biennial art auction and exhibition, If you can tell a story..., was a huge success. With all winning bids and donations taken into account, we raised an impressive $80,000! 

06 Sep 2017

Kids from Plunkett Street School came along to our fundraising art exhibition to explore their responses to the artworks. SBS was there...