National Writing Day
Wednesday 25 June 2025
Calling all young writers, teachers, parents and everyone else — grab your pens, pencils or laptops and make your voices heard this National Writing Day!
Anyone can take part in our annual celebration of writing for pleasure and self-expression — at home, school, work, wherever. Share your writing online using #NationalWritingDay.
Explore our library of free writing resources for prompts and inspiration to get your started. You could…
- use a famous opening line to write a new poem
- choose an object that reminds you of being younger and use it to tell a story from your own life
- draw around your foot and create a character
National Writing Day 2023
Roll the dice
In 2023, we commissioned poet and First Story writer John Berkavitch to create a NWD activity.
This fun activity is inspired by the 15th birthday ‘tombola poem’ created by attendees of the 2023 Young Writers Festival. It explains how you can use random words and number generation to spark your creativity.
In his video John shares a great way to start writing, by using a single die and whatever you can see and hear around you to generate ideas for lines.
Download and print our accompanying resource.
Check out other great resources by National Writing Day partners, below.
BBC Teach x First Story resources
We collaborated with the team at BBC Teach and some fantastic contemporary writers to produce an exciting new set of creative writing resources, ‘Inside the Writer’s Mind’. Packed with tips and insights, six of the films in the BBC series are accompanied by a free classroom resource produced by First Story.
