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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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 [...]
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July 2011 A 700 year old house in Somerset was the inspirational location for our third First Story summer residential trip in July. Thirty-two First Story students spent five days writing, under the expert guidance of four experienced First Story writers. No fewer than 300 stories, poems and scripts were scribbled down during the week’s [...]
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First Story is participating in the Give a Book Scheme through Daunt Books. Click below to find out more.
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22nd March 2011 First Story Founding Director, William Fiennes, gave a spectacular speech about First Story at the 5×15 night at Tabernacle on Monday 21st March. With fifteen minutes to describe First Story’s work, without a script, William recalls watching the Russian film Mirror as an undergraduate, and the moment when a boy with a [...]
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31st January 2011 A bar at the Folies-Bergère. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. The Family of Jan Bruegel the Elder. What did these paintings mean to eighty-five First Story students who took a tour of the Courtauld Institute under the expert guidance of six First Story writers? In an afternoon of writing workshops, First Story students [...]
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The Duchess of Cornwall officially launched First Story in the East Midlands during her first visit to Nottingham on 25th January 2011. HRH visited students in workshops at the Council House and talked to them about their experiences of the First Story programme. Afterwards, guests listened to speeches from Miranda Seymour and the Lord Mayor, [...]
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23rd December We would like to wish you a very happy holiday season with a poem for Christmas from our First Story students at Cheney School. Just let us know if you would like to buy a copy of the postcard (info@firststory.co.uk) . Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
