The 2015 Residential Anthology is here and is jam-packed with a host of exciting new voices.
First Story awarded major Arts Council England grant
We’ve been awarded a Creative Writing in Schools grant for £600,000 by Arts Council England to expand our programme.
What’s it like at the Residential?
Listen to interviews with First Story students, talking candidly about their experience of participating in the programme.
Patrick Ness and Sally Green to headline Young Writers’ Festival 2015
The award-winning authors will be joining us to speak about the craft of writing and to answer any questions our young writers may have.
The Sunday Times publishes our young writers’ work
The overall winning poem in our First Story National Writing Competition by Mukahang Limbu has been published in The Sunday Times.
‘Writing can be a source not just of pleasure but of power’
Our co-founder on writing, First Story and why every student should have creative-writing provisions.
First Story National Writing Competition prize giving ceremony
Our prize giving ceremony and public talk will be held as past of LSE’s Literary Festival.
First Story National Writing Competition longlist announced
We are thrilled to announce the longlist for First Story’s National Writing Competition 2014-15.
The First Story Residential Anthology 2014
We are very proud to present the First Story Residential Anthology 2014.
Young Writers’ Festival 2014
YWF2014 featured Mark Haddon, Philip Pullman, Caroline Bird and John Berkavitch over two days at the University of Oxford.
First Story and Cheltenham Festivals
We’re excited to announce our partnership with Cheltenham Festivals to run writing residencies in schools in Gloucestershire.
First Story young writers are finalists in the John Betjeman poetry competition
Jasmine Burgess and Helen Woods make two of the three finalists for the competition.