Page One is a volunteer-led education initiative based in Bath and North East Somerset. Dreamed up in the lockdowns of 2020 by founder Kasha-Faye Pascoe, we endeavour to empower under-represented voices in the literary world.
Our aims are to provide free education in English literature and language, primarily through a curriculum of creative writing; to provide guidance and support to writers of any skill level to achieve their goals in literature, especially those from low-income families and neighbourhoods and/or those without access to higher education; to provide inclusive and accessible learning spaces safe from discrimination, harassment and victimisation; and to partner with and support local libraries and community centres in pursuit of these aims.
Since August 2022, Page One’s flagship projects, our Creative Writing Class and Writer’s Workshop, have been running in partnerships with Bath and North East Somerset Libraries, The 3Ls, and The Hub Mulberry Park.
Feedback
I honestly really would recommend this course to anyone with any writing goals. […] With this course, I not only found the courage to face my writing demons and fears, but to discover I could improve with support. My stand out achievement from the course is to write a poem, which I have never been able to do before, which was in fact about the reflections for me of facing these fears.
Sarah N.
Kasha is extremely friendly and charismatic, as well as clearly passionate and knowledgeable about creative writing and I couldn’t help but find each class I went to be really engaging and fun!
Natalie B.
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Our Founder
Kasha-Faye Pascoe is the founder and lead tutor of Page One. They have been passionate about stories and storytelling, especially its integral place in history and humanities, for the vast majority of their life. They were encouraged to explore this passion in earnest by their mother. It was further fostered by their teachers, which would instil in them a deep respect for the profession and an eventual desire to adopt it as their own.
Following an accident in their teens, they became disabled and started homeschooling. It was here in the relative freedom of structuring their own lessons and projects that Kasha-Faye was able to seriously pursue writing. In time, they achieved A*s in English Literature and Language and applied to university as a mature student. They graduated from Bath Spa University in 2017—having written no less than three dissertations—with a BA (Hons) degree in Creative Writing. During their time at university, they worked as an English tutor and an outreach ambassador, and following graduation, became a freelance editor.
In 2020, Kasha dreamt up the first syllabus for a free creative writing class and reached out to the Bath and North East Somerset Libraries network. Although delayed by COVID-19, Page One was officially founded in the summer of 2022 and the first class was held in August of that year.
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