Sunday 19 May 2013
Wormsley Cricket Ground, Buckinghamshire
Tickets now on sale – click here!
Gates Open 11.30am • Lunch 12.30pm • Match Starts 2.00pm • Afternoon Tea 4.00pm • Close of Play 7.00pm
Edwardian cricket team the Authors, which once featured the likes of PG Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle, has been revived and now stars amongst others today’s best-selling writers Sebastian Faulks (Birdsong), Tom Holland (Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic) and First Story founder William Fiennes (The Snow Geese).
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Thursday 18 April 2013
We are thrilled to announce that First Story student Azfa Ali, from Oxford Spires Academy, has won the 2013 Christopher Tower Poetry Prize. Now in its thirteenth year, the competition is one of the most prestigious in the UK, with a reputation for discovering talented young poets.
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
The Duchess of Cornwall, Patron of First Story, hosted a tea at Clarence House to celebrate the fifth anniversary of First Story. Attending the reception were students who have taken part in the charity’s creative-writing programme, teachers and supporters of First Story.
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Anthology season is upon us once again! Our First Story groups are busy planning their launch events, and preparing to perform their work to a room full of family, friends, teachers and First Story supporters. We would be delighted if you could join us for what is always a memorable experience.
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Featured in the Friday Story e-newsletter, 3 May 2013. To subscribe, please click here.
She walked through a new world that January evening, a world transformed into a hundred different shades of white, some so bright they made the sky above look dingy and grey. The road, broken with potholes and cracked from years of relentless use, was a smooth, seamless carpet of white. Even the kerb was invisible. Everything was undisturbed and whole.
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Featured in the Friday Story e-newsletter, 12 April 2013. To subscribe, please click here.
He spectates from afar.
It looks to him as a tiny piece of land.
Waiting for a war to strike out,
before he raises his hand.
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Tuesday 19 March 2013
On 19 March, 85 First Story students from six schools spent a wonderfully creative afternoon at the National Gallery, where the rich collection was used as inspiration for a host of outstanding poems and stories. Students were split into six groups, each overseen by a First Story writer and Gallery Educator, and led on a whirlwind tour of three or four Read the rest of this entry »
Featured in the Friday Story e-newsletter, 22 March 2013
I stood there. Confused. Hopeless. Trying to analyze my surroundings, not knowing where to stand or where to look. I was encaged within myself, with holes for escape but something just seemed to hold me back. I was always a victim of this feeling, regretting every good chance I never took, because of that same ‘thing’ that held me back. I was bombarded with
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Monday 13 May 2013
This event has now sold out
We are delighted to announce the return of First Story’s popular Literary Lunches. To start the 2013 programme, Deborah Moggach will be speaking in conversation with Susannah Herbert at the Polish Club in South Kensington on Monday 13 May.
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