First there was Dave Eggers' 826 Centers. Then, Nick Hornby took that idea to England and made children writing centers there - the Ministry of Stories. Now, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, it's made its way to Australia.
From the article...
WHEN someone has a good idea, copy it, especially if the originator doesn't mind and when it can transform children's lives. The fact another famous author has already copied it - Nick Hornby in London - is evidence that something like Dave Eggers's successful children's writing centre in San Francisco should cross the Pacific and set up in Sydney. It has.
Until now, the Sydney Story Factory was an idea that existed only in the ambitions of those of us inspired by Eggers's 826 Valencia centre - which is cunningly disguised by a store selling everything the modern pirate needs, such as mermaid repellent (or attractant) - and the seven centres it spawned in the US and by Hornby's Ministry of Stories, hidden behind Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, which opened in November.
But yesterday, the Sydney Story Factory won what people like to call ''seed funding'', money from which the tree of a creative writing centre can grow into a real place which inspires kids to tell their stories.
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