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Saint Gabriel’s College ’20:20 Vision’ anthology launch

27 July 2020 //  by Antonia Byatt

After months of lockdown and Zoom meetings, our CEO got to attend a First Story anthology launch in person earlier this month —albeit socially-distanced—when she went along to St Gabriel’s College in South London, to help students celebrate the publication of their new anthology ’20:20 Vision’.

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National Writing Day 2020 #247Challenge Highlights

17 July 2020 //  by First Story

National Writing Day 2020 was framed around a mass participation creative writing exercise, the #247Challenge. As a call to action, it proved to be incredibly popular, with thousands of stories and poems shared online. Here we have collated just a few of the incredible submissions we read.

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Rathbones Folio Mentorships 2020-21 Open

1 July 2020 //  by First Story

First Story alumni can apply until the 31 July 2020 to take part in the 20/21 Rathbones Folio Mentorships programme, for a chance to work for a year with an acclaimed pro author. Two of this year’s mentees, Mariamah Davey and Nidaa Raoof, share their reasons to get involved.

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First Story partnership with Unislam

18 June 2020 //  by Jess Tickell

Throughout 2019-20, we’ve been working in partnership with Unislam, the National Slam Poetry Festival, to place Unislam artists as ‘shadow writers’ in First Story schools. Jess Tickell caught up with one of these shadow writers, Sophie Horton.

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Writing From Home

26 May 2020 //  by First Story

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, feature-length creative writing video tutorials led by talented First Story Writers-in-Residence. We’ve been encouraging users on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to give the tutorials a try and post new writing online. Here we highlight a small selection of the pieces shared during May via the hashtag #WriteFromHome.

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National Writing Day Ambassadors Announced

22 May 2020 //  by First Story

The impressive line-up of literary talent helping us celebrate National Writing Day 2020 includes: current and former Children’s Laureates, Cressida Cowell and Malorie Blackman; Scotland’s National Poet, Jackie Kay; Carnegie medal-winning screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce; best-selling author Mark Haddon; writer and illustrator Laura Dockrill; poet Caroline Bird; playwright Vinay Patel; and children’s author SF Said.

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John Berkavitch at First Story Young Writers' Festival

School closures have highlighted the gulfs in inequality between young people

28 April 2020 //  by Antonia Byatt

The COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap for attainment, but has also robbed a generation of valuable social and emotional learning.

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Announcing the 100-Word Story Competition 2019/20 winners

30 March 2020 //  by First Story

We’re really excited to announce the winners of the 2019 100-Word Story Competition judged by the lovely folks at Vintage books.

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Covid-19 Update

19 March 2020 //  by Antonia Byatt

With current government advice in mind, First Story’s Chief Executive, Antonia Byatt, responds to the uncertainty surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19.

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Writer-in-residence, Christina Lewis, with the participating 14-16 young female writers

Hull College students’ response to 21st century pressures: We Are Strong

12 March 2020 //  by Jessica Fear

On Tuesday 18th February, First Story were proud to present the launch of We Are Strong – an anthology of work written by a group of inspiring young women who powerfully opened up about the world around them.

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audience reaction at YWF19

Regional Writing Stars – Autumn term

3 March 2020 //  by First Story

We ran a new competition this year – Regional Writing Stars – created to highlight and celebrate regional voices and stories.

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A good education for all: First Story and the Ofsted inspection framework

20 February 2020 //  by Antonia Byatt

Ofsted recently published its Annual Report for 2018/19, the year it introduced its new education inspection framework and sparked fresh debate about what works best to tackle disadvantage. Our Chief Executive shares her thoughts.

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