First Story News Archive

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.

7 September 2013 // by First Story

Join us for the first ever cricket-literary festival!

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.

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.

2 August 2013 // by First Story

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

4 July 2013 // by First Story

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

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