The BBC recently announced First Story and the University of Cambridge as the new partners for its short story awards, in a three-year collaboration starting in 2018.First Story will support the BBC …
Competitions
The winner of our Letters Live Six-Word Story Competition
A big thank you to all those who entered the Six-Word Story Competition that First Story ran at Letters Live – there was a delightful array of funny, moving and clever entries that we hugely enjoyed …
Our 100-Word Story Competition Winners are in The Bookseller
The winners of this year's First Story’s 100-Word Story Competition, judged by Vintage Books, have been featured in The Bookseller. This is just one more way to give them a huge congratualtions. …
100-Word Story 2015 Winners
The judges at Vintage Publishing were hugely impressed with the inventiveness and creativity of all entries, and after a long deliberation process we are excited to announce the overall winner and the …
The Sunday Times publishes our young writers’ work
The overall winning poem in our First Story National Writing Competition has been published in The Sunday Times paper and online, celebrating the achievements of the winner Mukahang Limbu from Oxford …
First Story National Writing Competition prize giving ceremony
First Story’s National Writing Competition public talk and prize giving ceremony will be held as part of LSE’s Literary FestivalDate: Monday 9 March 2015Time: 6-7.30pmVenue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, …
First Story National Writing Competition longlist announced
We had a record number of entries from state secondary schools across the country all responding to the theme of ‘Home’. We feel truly privileged to have received and read so many entries of …
First Story young writers dominate COMPAS Poetry Competition
First Story were incredibly excited to learn that not one but, six students at First Story school Oxford Spires Academy, were shortlisted for the COMPAS ‘Poetry on the Move’ …