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First Story

Creative writing charity for young people

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First Story News Archive

Mukahang Limbu and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall

The Sunday Times publishes our young writers’ work

1 March 2015 //  by First Story

The overall winning poem in our First Story National Writing Competition by Mukahang Limbu has been published in The Sunday Times.

Category: Competitions, News

William Fiennes

‘Writing can be a source not just of pleasure but of power’

8 February 2015 //  by First Story

Our co-founder on writing, First Story and why every student should have creative-writing provisions.

Category: Opinion

National Writing Competition: Home

First Story National Writing Competition prize giving ceremony

22 January 2015 //  by First Story

Our prize-giving ceremony and public talk will be held as part of LSE’s Literary Festival.

Category: Competitions

National Writing Competition: Home

First Story National Writing Competition longlist announced

22 January 2015 //  by First Story

We are thrilled to announce the longlist for First Story’s National Writing Competition 2014-15.

Category: Competitions

The First Story Residential Anthology 2014

27 November 2014 //  by First Story

We are very proud to present the First Story Residential Anthology 2014.

Category: Anthologies, Residential

Mark Haddon at the First Story Young Writers' Festival 2014

Young Writers’ Festival 2014

3 October 2014 //  by First Story

YWF2014 featured Mark Haddon, Philip Pullman, Caroline Bird and John Berkavitch over two days at the University of Oxford.

Category: News, Young Writers Festival

First Story and Cheltenham Festivals

23 September 2014 //  by First Story

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Cheltenham Festivals to run writing residencies in schools in Gloucestershire.

Category: News

First Story young writers are finalists in the John Betjeman poetry competition

11 September 2014 //  by First Story

Jasmine Burgess and Helen Woods make two of the three finalists for the competition.

Category: News

Louisa Young

First Story’s Fundraising Auction

7 May 2014 //  by First Story

Bid on Louisa Young joining your book group, Michael Morpurgo naming a character after you, or dinner at Le Café Anglais.

Category: News

King Solomon Academy at UCL

Creative writing afternoon at UCL museums and collections

29 January 2014 //  by First Story

Our young writers have written an array of excellent poems and prose inspired by UCL’s varied museums and collections.

Category: News

Helen Woods, Mukahang Limbu at YWF

First Story young writers dominate COMPAS Poetry Competition

27 January 2014 //  by First Story

Six – that’s right six – First Story young writers were shortlisted for the COMPAS ‘Poetry on the Move’ competition.

Category: Competitions, News

RSL and First Story Discussion

A literary discussion hosted by First Story and the RSL

23 January 2014 //  by First Story

Alan Johnson, Stephen Kelman, Kate Fox and Salena Godden ask whether the world of literature is becoming more, or less, closed.

Category: News, Supporter Stories

Boys reading Malorie Blackman

Thank you Give a Book

20 January 2014 //  by First Story

Give a Book donated over 500 books to our Young Writers’ Festival so that every participant could leave with at least one book.

Category: Supporter Stories, Young Writers Festival

Literary lunch with Frances Osborne

28 November 2013 //  by First Story

Best-selling author Frances Osborne will be talking about her life, work, and her recent book Park Lane.

Category: News, Supporter Stories

Malorie Blackman at First Stort YWF

Malorie Blackman on the importance of reading

18 October 2013 //  by First Story

Listen to the Children’s Laureate, on reading, the impact of technology and why author visits to schools are so important.

Category: Opinion, Supporter Stories

The First Story Young Writers’ Festival 2013

19 September 2013 //  by First Story

YWF13 saw Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman share her experiences to a tent packed with 700 young writers.

Category: Young Writers Festival

Words and Wickets

Words and Wickets

7 September 2013 //  by First Story

Join us for the first ever cricket-literary festival!

Category: News, Supporter Stories

Literary Lunch with John O’Farrell

19 August 2013 //  by First Story

One of Britain’s most popular comic authors will be talking about his novels, Spitting Image, and being a First Story Writer-in-Residence.

Category: News, Supporter Stories

Young writers outside Nettlecombe at the 2013 First Story Residential

The First Story Summer Residential 2013

5 August 2013 //  by First Story

1 house, 5 days, 6 Writers-in-Residence, 60 talented young writers, and over 450 poems and stories written.

Category: Residential

Two boys with First Story notebooks

First Story 2012-13: the year at a glance

2 August 2013 //  by First Story

This year we’ve worked with 32 school, 700 students, and produced some 11,300 poems and stories.

Category: News

Michelle Dockery on front cover of Harper's Bazaar

First Story in Harper’s Bazaar

4 July 2013 //  by First Story

We’ve been featured in the August edition of the glossy magazine!

Category: News

The Duchess of Cornwall cutting First Story's 5 year anniversary cake

The Duchess of Cornwall celebrates five years of First Story

23 April 2013 //  by First Story

We celebrated our five year anniversary at Clarence House with First Story young writers and guest writers such as Philip Pullman.

Category: News

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