First Story
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First Story is a literacy charity. It was founded in 2007 by Katie Waldegrave and the writer William Fiennes[1] to improve literacy and foster creativity[2] in young people through creative writing. The organisation works with "challenging" state schools.[3]
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Activities
First Story supports and inspires creativity, literacy and confidence in UK secondary schools and their communities. They arrange and pay for acclaimed authors to run weekly creative-writing workshops for groups of up to twenty-one students attending ‘challenging’ secondary schools across the country. At the end of the year-long programme, First Story publishes a professional anthology of the students' work, and each school hosts a book launch event where the students read their work aloud to family, friends and teachers.
Writers
- Roland Chambers
- Kate Clanchy
- Laura Dockrill
- Ben Faccini
- Kevin Fegan
- Salena Godden
- Peter Hobbs (novelist)
- Courttia Newland
- Ross Raisin
- Shauna O'Briain (MC Angel)
- Lou Kuenzler
- Anthony Anaxagorou
- Frances Wilson (writer)
- Anthony Cartwright
- David Reynolds
- James Dawson
- Alice Albinia
- Francesca Beard
- Leo Benedictus
- Philip Womack
- Diana Evans
- Caroline Bird
- Edward Platt (author)
- Kate Kingsley
- Julie Bolitho-Lee
- Tim Pears
- Alan Buckley
- John Berkavitch
- Graham Lester George
- Anthony Cropper
- Nicola Valentine
- Cathy Grindrod
- Irfan Master
- Matt Black
- Richard MacSween
- Andrew McMillan
- Kate Fox
- John Siddique
Executive team
- Executive Director: Katie Waldegrave
- Founding Director: William Fiennes
- National Director: Mónica Parle
Board of trustees
- Ed Baden-Powell – Partner, Michael Simkins LLP
- Beth Colocci – Curator
- Sophie Dalling – Head of English, George Green’s School
- Charlotte Hogg – Chief Operating Officer, Bank of England
- Sue Horner – Educational Consultant
- Rob Ind – Head of English, Cranford Community College
- Andrea Minton Beddoes (Chair) – Consultant
- Mayowa Sofekun – Student
- David Stephens
- Betsy Tobin – Writer
Advisory board
- Lord Adonis - Director of The Institute for Government
- Julian Barnes - Writer
- Jamie Byng - Publisher, Canongate Books
- Alex Clark - Editor, Granta
- Julia Cleverdon - CEO, Business in the Community
- Andrew Cowan - Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, UEA
- Jonathan Dimbleby - Writer and Broadcaster
- Mark Haddon - Writer
- Josephine Hart - Writer and Presenter
- Simon Jenkins - Writer
- Derek Johns - Literary Consultant
- Andrew Kidd - Literary Agent, Aitken Alexander Associates
- Rona Kiley - CEO Academy Sponsors Trust
- Chris Patten - Chancellor, University of Oxford
- Kevin Prunty - Headteacher
- Deborah Rogers - Literary Agent
- Zadie Smith - Writer
- Alicia Stubbersfield - Writer and Teacher
- William Waldegrave - Chairman, Science Museum
- Brett Wigdortz - CEO, Teach First
First Story in the press
- Director William Fiennes, and First Story writers Salena Godden, Kate Clanchy and Jon McGregor talk about First Story in The Independent
- Tim Pears writes about his experiences as First Story Writer-in-Residence in The Guardian
- Frances Wilson writes about First Story in the Sunday Times
- Irena Barker writes about First Story in the TES
- John Humphreys hears about First Story on the Today Programme
- Alex Clark writes about First Story in the Daily Telegraph
- Sean Dodson writes about First Story in The Guardian
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Notes
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- ↑ Dodson, Sean, "826 Valencia: children's literacy inspired by pirates", The Guardian 21/08/08 from website 04/08/09.
- ↑ Humphreys, John, "Storytelling at school", BBC Radio 4 Today, 25/09/08, from website 04/08/09.
- ↑ Waldegrave, Katie, http://www.FirstStory.co.uk, January 2009.
