29 Apr 2015

We’re very excited to be hosting a movie night at the beautiful Golden Age cinema in Surry Hills! We’ll be screening the magical Where The Wild Things Are (co-written by...

17 Apr 2015

On Tuesday we’re stoked to be hosting four of the five wonderful writers who comprise the pseudonym Alice Campion for our Factory Talks! They’re all members of a book club...

11 Mar 2015

Next week we’re super excited to have the wonderful Debra Oswald here for our Factory Talks – not just because her new novel (and first for adults) Useful has just...

23 Jan 2015

We’re excited to announce novelist, poet and writer James Bradley as our next Factory Talks guest on Wednesday February 18! He’ll be discussing his brand new book Clade, as well...

23 Jan 2015

Last term we ran a workshop to help our students write engaging and wonderful scripts. The results were spectacular, with one of the scripts gaining entry into the Short +...

14 Nov 2014

Last night our Executive Director Cath Keenan won the Westpac Community Leader Award (Board Member category)! Westpac’s Jason Yetton said, ““Good leaders are people who set out to make a...

05 Nov 2014

We had to postpone one of Australia’s most eminent authors after he won yet another well-deserved award last month, but he’s booked in again for Tuesday November 18! Thomas Keneally...

26 Oct 2014

Oh yes, it's happening. The World Premiere of our Radio with Pictures short films!

15 Oct 2014

Will you give a child the chance to attend a Sydney Story Factory workshop? We’re looking for awesome individuals to give just $30 a month – less than a dollar a day.

07 Oct 2014

Last week the wonderful Emma Mactaggart was here to take our students through a scintillating session on plot writing. The great news is the organisation Child Writes is hosting a...

03 Oct 2014

We’re stoked to announce journalist, columnist, screenwriter and all-round nice guy Benjamin Law as our next Factory Talks guest! He’ll be discussing his books The Family Law, Gaysia and Sh*t...

12 Sep 2014

What a wonderful night! Last Wednesday evening, September 10 2014, our year-long community writing project came to a spectacular conclusion as we launched our latest book, Home: Mapping the Stories...

06 Aug 2014

In case you missed it last night, ABC’s The Life Series can now be seen on iView! We featured on last night’s episode, focussing on the importance of fostering creativity...

21 Jul 2014

Omar Musa is a poet, rapper and writer from Queanbeyan who has released both books and hip hop albums, and is a champion of numerous Poetry Grand Slams. His latest...

21 Jul 2014

We are incredibly excited by the news that Dave Eggers – author, publisher, philanthropist, all round awesome dude – is coming to Sydney in September! He’ll be speaking at Carriageworks...