What Happens at a Story Nest Session?
No two Story Nest sessions are quite the same. We explore stories through games, challenges, conversation, drawing, imagination and writing — with plenty of room for ideas to take unexpected turns.
We might…
Create a character from a collection of strange objects — and decide what secret they’re hiding.
Design an imaginary world, complete with maps, creatures, rules and places nobody has discovered yet.
Reach into a mystery bag and turn whatever we find into the beginning of a story.
Invent heroes, villains and characters who definitely don’t behave as expected.
Write postcards, diary entries or letters from fictional characters.
Play with brilliant first lines and see where they take us.
Create our own mythical creatures, magical objects or peculiar new inventions.
Experiment with poetry, wordplay, comics, dialogue and different ways of telling a story.
Become story detectives, using clues to piece together what might have happened.
Take an ordinary object, photograph or place and ask the most important storytelling question of all: What if…?
There’s no pressure to produce pages of perfect writing. Some young people will fill a notebook; others might draw, jot down ideas, tell parts of their story aloud, record themselves, or want a little help getting their thoughts onto the page. Spelling, handwriting and getting everything “right” aren’t the focus — imagination is.
And nobody has to read their work aloud. We celebrate ideas, encourage experimentation and help young writers discover that there isn’t just one way to tell a brilliant story.
Come with a pencil. Leave with a head full of stories.
Children are encouraged to share their ideas, but nobody has to read their work aloud. Whether they arrive already writing novels or convinced that writing simply isn’t their thing, the aim is for them to leave with new ideas, greater confidence and, hopefully, the feeling:
“I’m a writer too.”
