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First Story

Creative writing charity for young people

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First Story News Archive

Teacher CPD session

First Story Young Writers in a Ted Hughes Prize shorlisted poem

4 March 2016 //  by First Story

Kate Clanchy has been nominated for the Ted Hughes Prize for a radio poem that features the voices of First Story young writers.

Category: News

London Book Fair Logo 2016

First Story is London Book Fair’s Charity of the Year

25 February 2016 //  by First Story

London Book fair described us a ‘force for good in the larger publishing ecosystem’.

Category: News, Supporter Stories

Bookseller Logo

Our 100-Word Story Competition Winners are in The Bookseller

10 February 2016 //  by First Story

The leading business magazine of the book industry has celebrated our young writers’ work.

Category: Competitions, News

Emily Blagrove-Skinners-Potato

100-Word Story 2015 Winners

2 February 2016 //  by First Story

Armed with only 100 words, our young writers have come up with some stunning entries for our 100 -Word Competition.

Category: Competitions, News

Daljit Nagra at a First Story RSL Outreach event

First Story in the RSL Review

22 January 2016 //  by First Story

An article about the importance of our work and how closely we work with the Royal Society of Literature to provide extra provisions.

Category: Opinion

First Story Residential Anthology 2015

The First Story Residential Anthology 2015

3 November 2015 //  by First Story

The 2015 Residential Anthology is here and is jam-packed with a host of exciting new voices.

Category: Anthologies, Residential

Nottingham RWE

First Story awarded major Arts Council England grant

6 October 2015 //  by First Story

We’ve been awarded a Creative Writing in Schools grant for £600,000 by Arts Council England to expand our programme.

Category: News

What’s it like at the Residential?

21 August 2015 //  by First Story

Listen to interviews with First Story students, talking candidly about their experience of participating in the programme.

Category: News, Residential

Patrick Ness and Sally Green

Patrick Ness and Sally Green to headline Young Writers’ Festival 2015

19 August 2015 //  by First Story

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.

Category: Young Writers Festival

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

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