First Story

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First Story is an English charity that encourages children and young people to write creatively, outside the curriculum, for self-expression and pleasure. Its aim is to empower children and young people from low-income communities to find and develop their voices and, in doing so, thrive in education and beyond. The charity works in state secondary schools serving low-income communities and its operating regions are Greater London, the East Midlands and the North of England.

First Story's Young Writers Programme places professional authors into schools, where they work with a consistent cohort of children and young people, to develop confidence, creativity and writing ability. The programme ends with the publication of an anthology of students' writing, edited by their writer in residence. First Story produces over 60 new publications a year. The charity also runs creative writing competitions and events for programme participants.

The charity's chief executive is the writer Antonia Byatt. Its patron is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

In the 2018–19 academic year, First Story worked in 73 schools across England and 1,565 students (aged 11–16) completed its intensive writer-in-residence programme.