Everyone has a voice.
First Story helps students find theirs.
We’re England’s leading creative writing charity for young people.
Our talented professional writers equip students in underserved communities with the confidence and skills to tell their own stories.
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First Story is 15!
We’ve been changing lives through writing since 2008.
Our writers
Our flagship Young Writers Programme places an inspiring professional writer in residence in a partner school for an academic year. Writers work intensively with a consistent group towards the publication of a printed anthology.
First Story writers are acclaimed and award-winning authors, poets and playwrights, with the skills to transform students’ creativity, confidence and ability.
The Young Writers Programme
Our flagship provision includes a professional writer in residence, sixteen weeks of extracurricular creative writing workshops, a published anthology, support and resources for teachers, plus exclusive access to year-round activities and opportunities.
Our anthologies
Since 2008, we’ve published thousands of poems and stories by young writers, in hundreds of beautifully produced anthologies—all of which are in the collection of the British Library.
We are committed to amplifying emerging voices from underrepresented communities and to providing platforms for our young writers to be read and heard.
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