Creative Future | Working With Underrepresented Artists & Writers

Our 2022 Writers' Award competition opens

Are you an underrepresented writer with a great idea for a short story or poem on the theme of How It Started? Our FREE to enter competition is open until 22 May 2022. Submit your best poetry or short fiction.

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Announcing the winners of the 2021 Writers' Award

Congratulations to all twelve winners of our 8^th annual Creative Future Writers’ Award (CFWA). We heard all the winning pieces read at our showcase event, part of the 2021 London Literature Festival.

The Book Makers, pop-up bookshop launches in Brighton

Creative Future partners on The Book Makers project. A volunteer-run, community pop-up bookshop and learning space where commercially successful writers mentor emerging, underrepresented authors from diverse backgrounds.

Making the arts more diverse

We are an arts organisation and charity. We specialise in supporting creative people, underrepresented artists and communities facing barriers & inequality to opportunity. Our mission is to make the arts more diverse and representative of the world we live in.

What's Happening

Jan 13 2022

The 2022 Creative Future Writers’ Award competition is open

Oct 19 2021

Join our Board of Trustees!

A writing development programme and competition showcasing the work of underrepresented writers

Founded in 2013, the Creative Future Writers’ Award is an annual development  programme for talented writers from a wealth of backgrounds. It includes the UK’s only national writing competition for all underrepresented writers, alongside a series of workshops in hubs throughout the UK.

With the support of our leading literary partners, winners are selected by a panel of industry experts and are given the opportunity to develop their work through training, mentoring, assessment and coaching.

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