16 May 2017

Our Unmapping Project with the Museum of Contemporary Art starts today!

03 May 2017

You know how sometimes people are so smiley and happy, all of the time, that you wonder if there is a way to bottle up their personality and spread it across the globe to create world peace? That's how we feel about Xixi.

20 Apr 2017

Host an Eat Your Words event in May and raise money to help us open the doors of Sydney Story Factory Parramatta. It's easy. And heaps of fun!

03 Apr 2017

We were very honoured to have been offered a chance to help these fierce (both in intelligence and character) young people explore their world through rap and poetry, and we can't wait to work with them again.

03 Apr 2017

Reki, you're an inspiration to writers everywhere, congratulations on your great work this term!

02 Apr 2017

We worked with a talented group of Year 10s from Canterbury Boys to write and capture this touching short film on the theme ‘Being Human’. We were proud as punch to see it screened at the ‘Being Human’ film festival at Canterbury Girls and it was a roaring success!

08 Mar 2017

Meet brothers Jack and Shannon. We are so proud of their persistent efforts, continued presence and thoughtful explorations, and for that they are our students of the month!

27 Jan 2017

On Thursday January 26, we were honoured to have been at the 2017 Yabun Festival in Victoria Park. Throughout the day we asked visitors to our stall to contribute a line of poetry to answer the question, What does January 26 mean to you? The results were a long, emotional and inspiring poem created by our community that we live tweeted on our Twitter account. 

26 Jan 2017

Wow, didn’t that year go fast! First up, we at the Sydney Story Factory send huge congratulations to Vicki Jellie, the 2017 Australian of the Year Local Hero. Vicki’s story...

24 Jan 2017

A short focus piece on Briana, one of the talented writers from our year-long Novella project.

19 Jan 2017

A year on from Cath being named Australian of the Year Local Hero we have some VERY exciting news...

08 Dec 2016

Congratulations to all of our first Novella writers ... drumroll please!

27 Nov 2016

Give something special this Christmas. Just $30 could change the life of a marginalised child. You can give an at-risk young person the chance to unleash their imagination and find their voice. What an amazing gift that is.

24 Nov 2016

It's not many organisations that can boast confidently that their annual report is definitely NOT boring. But we do. Our Annual Report for 2015-16 provides a great snapshot of a year at the Sydney Story Factory. And what an amazing year it was! Read on...

20 Nov 2016

Our Lady of Mt Carmel student Niamh has just won the Red Room Poetry Competition!