We're thrilled to welcome our new Program Coordinator – the heroic Colin Craig – into the (virtual) building!

Every year, student editors invite a guest author to contribute a piece of writing to our annual Early Harvest publication. This year, we are thrilled to announce that Melbourne-based author (and teacher) Amelia Mellor!

We are well-versed in delivering our workshops online, and anything that might otherwise be done in person can be delivered remotely. It's just as engaging, just as effective, and just as fun!

As anyone who has gone on a perilous quest with us knows, every hero setting out on a new journey needs to pack some tools and technique in their backpack to help them along the way.

Over the years, we’ve developed a methodology that encourages students’ creativity, improves literacy outcomes, and develops confidence and a sense of belonging.

Meet Lucy Allinson, the second talented artist who will work alongside students from St Leonard's and Whittington Primary Schools to build our new Geelong Story Hub.

We’re thrilled to announce that we have selected Gretel Sharp and Lucy Allison as the artists who will work alongside students from St Leonard's and Whittington Primary Schools to build our new Geelong Story Hub.

We're thrilled to share that Unboring Exploring, our 2020 edition of Early Harvest, has won 3rd Prize in the 69th Australian Book Design Awards, in the Best Designed Children's Fiction Book category.

100 Story Building is joining with students & teachers at St Leonard's and Whittington Primary Schools to design Geelong's first Story Hub - an imaginative, co-designed space where students can collaborate and take creative risks in their learning.

In support of RISING Festival, 100 Story Building collaborated with artist James Nguyen and the students from Footscray Primary to develop costumes made completely out of WEARABLE POETRY.

We’re thrilled to announce that Susan Kukucka has today been announced as 100 Story Building’s new Chief Executive Officer.

After 10 years of leadership, we say a fond farewell to 100 Story Building co-founder and CEO Lachlann Carter as he embarks on an exciting new adventure. Join Lach as he reminisces on the tale so far, and share in the memories of a decade of writing and creativity – through a story, of course!

99 more levels of adventure, mystery and giant kittens are waiting for your class. Because 100 Story Building – the home of creative story making and discovery for Victorian students – is re-opening its Footscray centre in Term 3! 

Rainbow light streams in from a sunny window; colours are cast on a large white table that stretches out in the middle of the room, chairs lining its sides. A magic wand hangs in a glass case from the ceiling, a relic from a distant land. The walls are painted in pastels; a door stands locked in the corner, with feathers peeking out from its edges. You might think this is some conference room of a fairy-tale land, but it is one of our first-ever Story Hubs.

Many of us have memories of ‘creatively borrowing’ ideas from our favourite books, television shows, movies or comics. Many of us also have feelings of shame around our copying being exposed - by a teacher, a parent, or a peer. Copying gets a bad rap (sometimes for a good reason...we’re definitely not saying you should copy something and pretend it’s your own original work)!

Everyone at 100 Story Building is thrilled to announce that we are a recipient of a West Gate Neighbourhood Fund Partnerships project to redevelop our space in Footscray's Nicholson St Mall.

Getting students excited about writing is a challenge faced by many of the teachers we work with at 100 Story Building. When teachers bring their students to one of our school workshops, many comment on how students who are normally ‘reluctant writers’ are suddenly motivated and excited to write. The central strategy we use to support young writers in our workshops is to encourage student agency.

When we run Professional Learning workshops, we focus on developing teachers’ confidence in embracing student agency, and allowing children as much choice as possible over their creative learning. Central to building student agency into the design of workshops (and lesson plans) is offering opportunities for them to share their ideas about what they would like to write, and how.

In short? You get 10 brilliant books in 10 years.

Every year, through our Early Harvest program, 100 Story Building publishes a book written and edited entirely by children. To celebrate the tenth year (and tenth book) of the program, we are breaking down the techniques we use that makes this program so successful.

We realised the other day that it’s been a while since we did an audit of the levels beneath the trapdoor of our very tall (or very deep?) building. So, we went down to Reception on Level 99, and we found four new staff members sitting in the waiting room!