Young Writers' Festival

First Story's Young Writers Festival is an annual celebration of writing for, and by young people. For the first time in First Story history, 2021's celebrations took place entirely online, with …

First Story’s Young Writers’ Festival in 2019 was yet again a packed event that saw over 330 students, more than 30 teachers, 24 volunteers, and 18 Writers-in-Residence from around the country …

Juno Dawson is a best-selling author of YA fiction, a successful journalist with bylines in publications from Glamour magazine to The Guardian, a former teacher who specialised in PSHCE and …

In 2018 First Story's annual Young Writers’ Festival was held for the first time in partnership with the University of Cambridge. We welcomed over 330 students to the new venue, from schools across …

In 2017 we were excited to trial a special dual-site Young Writers' Festival. We returned to Oxford University's Lady Margaret Hall College, and also premiered at the University of Hull, as a part of …

We are hugely excited to announce that award-winning writers Naomi Alderman, Laura Dockrill, Anthony McGowan and Dave Rudden will be joining First Story at this year’s …

What an exciting month for First Story. Last week we launched the 2014-2015 programme with our Young Writers’ Festival 2014 – two days of inspirational talks and creative-writing wonders.  1,000 …