HOLLAND PARK SCHOOL 2022/23 FOLIO ACADEMY MENTEE 2024/25 …
‘Happy Birthday whoever you are’ by Malu SummerfieldRead More
Students Writing
Writing by participants
‘House of Suits’ by Priya Gill
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE PHILIP PYKE MEMORIAL PRIZE 2025 …
‘there are fewer joys than water to drink’ by Hannah Idil
AWARDED THIRD PLACE IN THE PHILIP PYKE MEMORIAL PRIZE 2025 …
‘there are fewer joys than water to drink’ by Hannah IdilRead More
‘Heartless’ by Maria Clark
AWARDED SECOND PLACE IN THE PHILIP PYKE MEMORIAL PRIZE 2025 …
‘Naming Ceremony’ by Lewis Buxton
WINNER OF THE PHILIP PYKE MEMORIAL PRIZE 2025 …
Nothing Shines Brighter Than You
by Participants at First Story Festival 2025 The more I think of you, the less worry I feel.This knowledge is like elastic, stretching out for miles.This sentence is elastic – pinging back and forthlike my emotions do.Where there are clouds, there’s rain.And where there’s rain there’s thunder.It …
‘Hues of Insanity’ by Harriet Hassall
CO-OP ACADEMY MANCHESTERSUMMER RESIDENTIAL PARTICIPANT 2023/24 …
‘Floor time’ by Tilly Wiggins
LANDAU FORTE COLLEGE DERBYFOLIO ACADEMY MENTEE 2023/24 …
‘And I think of you’ by Sarah Zahman
ST PAUL'S WAY TRUST SCHOOL 2021/22FOLIO ACADEMY MENTEE 2023/24 …
Help Please by Danny Donnelly
FROM 'A KINGDOM OF WORDS', NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY, 2018 …
Chosen Ones by Priya Gill
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE PHILIP PYKE MEMORIAL PRIZE 2024 …
Thunder Thighs by Lily Ritchie
AWARDED THIRD PLACE IN THE PHILIP PYKE MEMORIAL PRIZE 2024 …
‘Beyond the Cover’ by Omara Campbell
AWARDED 2ND PLACE IN THE PHILIP PYKE MEMORIAL PRIZE 2024 …
Our Lover’s Discourse by Emily Freeman
WINNER OF THE PHILIP PYKE MEMORIAL PRIZE 2024 …
The Moon Has Feelings Too
by Participants at First Story Festival 2024 …
‘I am My Moon’ by Safaa Sobri
CO-OP ACADEMY GRANGE, 2022WRITTEN ON SUMMER RESIDENTIAL, 2022 …
‘What is Love?’ by Lily Ritchie
THE DUKERIES ACADEMY, 2022 …
‘Double Meanings’ by Khaya Job
Nottingham Academy (Ransom Road), 2013 …
‘Dear Maya’ by Khaya Job
Nottingham Academy (Ransom Road), 2014 …
‘It’s all worth it, right?’ by Maisie Caller
The Dukeries Academy, 2023 …
‘Just a White Room’ by Paolo Kenneth Mwazyunga
The Bulwell Academy, 2023 …
‘I live in a bird’s nest’ by Kwasery Czarneki
The Bulwell Academy, 2023 …
Untitled poem by Daniella Koranteng
Skinners' academy, London, 2022 …
‘People are not Poems’ by Iqra Shahzad
CO-OP ACADEMY GRANGE/GRANGE TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE, BRADFORD/WEST YORKSHIRE, 2018 …
‘The Hope for Peace and the Fault of the White Feather’ by Szymon Wisniewski
Co-op Academy Grange, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 2019 …
‘The Hope for Peace and the Fault of the White Feather’ by Szymon WisniewskiRead More
‘On Your Wedding Day’ by Aarzoo Khan
Co-op Academy Grange, Bradford/WEST Yorkshire, 2021 …
‘Welcome to North’ by Daniella Koranteng
Skinners Academy, London, 2022 …
Extract from ‘The Fool: A Tale of The Skinshifter and His Prince’ by Cheyenne Taylor-Guest
Hull College, East Yorkshire, 2021 …
Extract from ‘The Fool: A Tale of The Skinshifter and His Prince’ by Cheyenne Taylor-GuestRead More
‘Expecting’
by Emily Freeman
Dukeries Academy, Nottingham, 2021 …
‘Baran in Wood Green’
by Baran Gilgil
Commerce House: Haringey Learning Partnership, London, 2021 …
‘Weighted Blanket’
by Finley Parkinson
Longcroft School, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2021 …
‘Bird’
by Tomiyo Lyon
Arts and Media School Islington, London, 2020 …
‘Shattered Melanin’
by Kaya Ducasse
Hampstead School, London, 2020 …
‘Seventy Years’
by Aisha Quadery
Judgemeadow Community College, Leicester, 2019 …
‘Self-Isolation’
by Elizabeth Ibe
Hull College, 2020 …
‘I Am’
by Krystal Jackson
14 –16 School, Hull College, Hull, 2020 …
‘London’
by Teddy Valance
Raine's Foundation School, London …
‘Truth’
by Hafsa Kalim
Judgemeadow Community College, Leicester …
‘Fading In and Out of Obscurity’
by Noah Yorke
Judgemeadow Community College, Leicester …
‘Ode to the Fifteenth Hour’
by Aziza Adam
Wembley High Technology College, London, 2019 …
‘Gender vs Meaning’
by Callum Roberts
John Cabot Academy, Bristol, 2019 …
‘Stumbling’
by Elysia Brown
Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College, Bradford, 2014 …
‘When I Came from Nepal’
by Mukahang Limbu
Oxford Spires Academy, Oxford, 2015 …
‘The Case of Angela Brown’
by Imaru Lewis
Highgate Wood School, London, 2016 …
‘How Not to Be the Angry Black Girl’
by Naomi Dairo
Hampstead School, London, 2019 …
‘How Not to Be the Angry Black Girl’<br> by Naomi DairoRead More
‘What First Story Means to Me’
by Eurica Mae Medina
Wembley High Technology College, London, 2015 …
‘What First Story Means to Me’<br> by Eurica Mae MedinaRead More
‘Did You Know?’
by Barirah Ashfak
Feversham College, Bradford, 2016 …
‘In The Dream’
by Samawado Farah
Wembley High Technology College, London, 2015 …
‘Aqsal Al Awal’
by Sabah Hussein
Skinners' Academy, London, 2015 …
‘The Oak Tree’
by Shahrbano Iqbal
Belle Vue Girls’ Academy, West Yorkshire, 2017 …
‘The Animal Child’
by Rosie Barwell
Melior Academy, Scunthorpe, 2019 …
‘3.22 AM’
by Fatima Khan
Wembley High Technology College, London, 2015 …
‘Your Mother’
by Aarti Sisodiya
Judgemeadow Community College, East Midlands, 2018 …
‘Beginnings’
By Azfa Ali
Oxford Spires Academy, Oxford, 2012 …
‘I Remember: 1’
by Fatima S. Khan
Nottingham Academy (Greenwood Road Campus), Nottingham, 2013 …
‘Willow’s Toad’
by Ayisha Mahmood
Cranford Community College, London, 2018 …
‘A Pleasure’
by Grace Power
Nottingham Academy, Greenwood Road, Nottingham, 2018 …
