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Anthony Cartwright at Festival

‘First Story is a project of hope’

27 November 2020 //  by Anthony Cartwright

Award-winning novelist and long-serving First Story Writer-in-Residence, Anthony Cartwright reflects on what he’s learned as a writer and practitioner after eight years of delivering our programme with five different London schools.

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How we are navigating COVID-19 to keep supporting young people

27 November 2020 //  by First Story

First Story hasn’t stopped working through the pandemic. Adapted models of our Young Writers Programme are running during autumn term 2020/21 in partner schools across England.

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First Story writers create new BHM resources

29 September 2020 //  by First Story

Three writers – Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Bridget Minamore, and Khadijah Ibrahiim – have produced a series of creative-writing resources for Black History Month that can be used in the classroom and beyond. Read their powerful forewords.

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Caleb Parkin

We’ve created an LGBT+ training resource

5 February 2020 //  by Jess Tickell

To mark LGBT+ History Month, Writer-in-Residence Caleb Parkin put together a training resource giving practitioners the tools to deliver celebratory and inclusive writing workshops.

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On being a Writer-in-Residence

22 December 2019 //  by Rachel Seiffert

Last month, publishers Hachette UK generously hosted a reception for First Story supporters, at which Writer-in-Residence Rachel Seiffert told us what it’s like to have “the best job in the world”.

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