(First Story Festival Poem)by Participants at First Story Festival 2024 Not like a star, like a supernova, it shines, this festival. And you are all leaves, intricate and unique, special. We enter this forest of words the sky dark as our past, Sometimes the …
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Writing by participants
‘I am My Moon’ by Safaa Sobri
CO-OP ACADEMY GRANGE, 2022WRITTEN ON SUMMER RESIDENTIAL, 2022 I am the Earth's moon. The one that smells polluted, The one reeking of old plastic, The one that inhaled the aroma of purity, The one similar to other moons of other planets. The pale surface full of dust, With broken blemishes …
‘What is Love?’ by Lily Ritchie
THE DUKERIES ACADEMY, 2022 Is it thinking of you immediately after waking up?Is it thinking of you right before drifting to sleep?I don’t know what that is.When I go to sleep, I think of that book resting beside me.I think of the character I relate to most.I think of my favourite quote from the …
‘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 …