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Creative writing charity for young people

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Jess Tickell

About Jess Tickell

Jess supports our programmes in the East Midlands, and has a particular focus on writer development. Her background is in arts and literature, a field in which she’s been working for almost 20 years. She’s an enthusiastic champion for the East Midlands, where she loves to live and work, and for the region’s writing community.

Creative Writing and Social and Emotional Learning

23 July 2020 //  by Jess Tickell

After reading the National Literacy Trust's tenth annual literacy survey, published earlier this month, First Story's programme manager for the East Midlands, Jess Tickell, reflects on the …

Category: East Midlands, Opinion, Outcomes and Impact

First Story partnership with Unislam

18 June 2020 //  by Jess Tickell

For the past year, First Story has been working in partnership with Unislam, the National Slam Poetry Festival, to place its artists as 'shadow writers' in First Story schools. Jess Tickell caught up …

Category: East Midlands, News, Partnerships

We’ve created an LGBT+ training resource

5 February 2020 //  by Jess Tickell

February is LGBT+ History Month. In honour of this year's theme — ‘Poetry, Prose and Plays’ — we’ve released a dedicated training resource for First Story Writers-in-Residence. We're delighted to be …

Category: News, Writers

Six days in Lviv ‘where every third person is a poet’

30 September 2019 //  by Jess Tickell

I’ve recently returned from six days in Lviv, Ukraine’s cultural capital and one of Nottingham’s sister UNESCO Cities of Literature. Like Nottingham, Lviv is a young UNESCO City of Literature, rich in …

Category: East Midlands, Opinion

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