NEWS AND EVENTS
We will be updating this space with all our latest news and events. Please contact us at info@firstory.co.uk if you would like to find out more.
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Wednesday 29 February, The Tabernacle, London
Premier debating forum Intelligence² is staging a fundraising evening in aid of First Story. The event will see poets, novelists and an actor take to the stage, each with fifteen minutes to make you laugh or cry or both. Join us to hear stories from William Fiennes, Salena Godden, Mark Haddon, Lemn Sissay and Sam West.
Follow the link below to purchase tickets.
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The First Story Events Committee is pleased to present dates for our forthcoming Literary Lunches:
AMINATTA FORNA Tuesday 13th March 2012, London
P. D. JAMES Tuesday 8th May 2012, LondonFollow the link below to purchase tickets.
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10th – 26th February, Southbank Centre Imagine Festival – celebrating literature, music, comedy and performance for the young Friday 17th – Wednesday 22nd February ‘The Trial of Dennis the Menace’ Calling all Beano-lovers! Join First Story writer-in-residence Caroline Bird for an hour of music, words and action in this exciting adaptation of the Beano series. Tickets Friday 17th February [...]
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Thursday 9th February 2012 On a particularly snow evening on Thursday 9th February, First Story’s first Nottingham fundraiser got off to a fantastic start with the legendary William Ivory. Ivory is one of Britain’s leading screen writers with credits such as Made in Dagenham, The Sins, Common as Muck and the adaptation of D.H Lawrence’s [...]
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23rd January 2012 On the 23rd January, a passer-by in the usually noiseless galleries of Somerset House would have been distracted by the audible whirring of a hundred young minds. Creative cogs were going into overdrive as five acclaimed authors used art to ignite the imaginations of these aspiring writers. This is the second First [...]
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We are delighted to announce that The Duchess of Cornwall has become Patron of First Story.
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We are delighted that Tariq Williams won the Wicked Young Writers’ Award for a poem he wrote with First Story writer Caroline Bird at Horizons Centre Ealing. Other First Story finalists were Elliot Boles (Queens Park Community School) and Jemma Smith (Burlington Danes Academy).
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7th October 2011 Congratulations to Robert Marston, one of the fifteen winners of the The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2011. Eleven-year-old Robert discovered his remarkable talent in First Story workshops with poets Lemn Sissay and Caroline Bird, a two-time winner of the award. He is the youngest winner of this year’s competition which [...]
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FIRST STORY FESTIVAL
We are delighted to report on the inaugural First Story Festival. Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire was enlivened with writers, students and book-lovers for two magical days… -
7th September 2011 First Story would like to say a huge thank you to The Funding Network and the very generous donors who attended TFN’s Special Autumn Event on Tuesday 6th September. They helped to raise an overwhelming £15,413 for First Story. First Story Founding Director, William Fiennes, joined a host of well-known personalities at the magnificent [...]
