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National Writing Day
National Writing Day 2021 #FilltheBox Challenge Highlights
The fifth annual National Writing Day took place on 23 June 2021, celebrating the power and pleasure of creative writing. This year's celebrations took place both online and in schools, to ensure as …
Young Ambassadors programme pilot
We announced First Story's new Young Ambassadors programme with much excitement in autumn 2020. At that time, we had no idea what lay ahead in terms of the impacts of the pandemic; contending with …
National Writing Day 2020 #247Challenge Highlights
The fourth annual National Writing Day took place on 24 June 2020. In the context of a global pandemic, activities necessarily shifted online. We framed the day around a mass participation creative …
National Writing Day Instagram takeover!
In the week leading up to this year's National Writing Day on 24 June, we invited two former First Story students from West Yorkshire, Henna Ravjibhai (17) and Sophie Crabtree (19), to take over our …
Writing From Home
National Writing Day 2020 takes place on 24 June. With most young people at home due to the pandemic, this year's programme is being delivered digitally. Our NWD 2020 resource bank includes nine, …
National Writing Day Ambassadors Announced
National Writing Day is our annual mass celebration of the pleasure and power of creative writing, driven by a coalition of leading literacy organisations and publishers, led by First Story. Now in …
Picket Line Poetry in Hull
To celebrate National Writing Day 2019, First Story East Yorkshire collaborated with local partners to put on a packed day of activities culminating in an original event, 'Picket Line Poetry'. …
