Five Good Things (Up Yours, 2016)
Abi Hynes, one of the producers behind First Draft, looks back on what we’ve been up to over the past 12 months… I’ve spent the last half hour writing and […]
Tom and Trisha’s Film Club
Oh my, have we got a treat for you… Brilliant fiction regular and First Draft favourite, Trisha Starbrook, shares the piece she performed at our Fan Club event last month. […]
In praise of The Castle Hotel
Writer, producer, performer and exactly one third of the team behind First Draft, Harry Jelley, blogs about the place we call home… Every now and then, Abi, Andrew and I […]
Friends at the Table
Musician and regular First Draft contributor Jez Hewes has created two music tracks for us in response to our Fan Club event this month. Read his short blog post and […]
Prevent: poetry from Alex Webb
Alex Webb, poet, co-founder of Sleepy House Press and member of M20 Collective, shares his piece Prevent, written for our Voices event with Archives+. When I signed up for First […]
Announcing ‘Perspectives’: First Draft at the People’s History Museum
Member of the First Draft team, Harry Jelley, spills the beans about our very exciting one-off event this spring… At the moment here at First Draft, we seem to be specialising […]
Voices – bringing sound archives to life
We’ve just announced the details of our next event, Voices, which will see us partner up with The Greater Manchester Sound Archive. In this guest blog, archivist David Govier tells […]
The Surveilled – call for female poets
Amelia and Catriona, the duo behind One Fine Night – a collective who host creative events across Manchester to raise money for charity – tell us about their upcoming project […]
Visiting
The next to respond to our In From The Cold callout for creative wintry submissions, here is brilliant poet and previous First Draft performer Ciarán Hodgers, with his poem ‘Visiting’. Visiting […]
Reunions
In response to our In From The Cold callout for creative wintry submissions, we’re very pleased to publish a poem from writer and teacher Ian O’Brien. Reunions Ian O’Brien He […]
