Creative Future | Working With Underrepresented Artists & Writers

Watch our Writers' Award Winners' Showcase

Our first-ever Digital Showcase hosted by Joelle Taylor, celebrating the twelve winners of our annual prize for outstanding unpublished fiction & poetry from UK underrepresented writers.

Watch the showcase here

Order your copy of Tomorrow

TOMORROW is an anthology of winning entries from the 2020 Creative Future Writers’ Award, the only national competition for all underrepresented writers. Just £6+PP.

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Announcing the winners of the 2020 Writers’ Award competition

Congratulations to all twelve winners. We’re delighted to have found such brilliant new voices and are eager to continue working with them to develop their writing careers.

View the 2020 winners here

Creative Future joins The Hera Partnership

Four of the city's leading arts and health organisations have formed The Hera Partnership, a new programme for Brighton and Hove.

Spotlight Books are here!

Our collaboration with New Writing South and Myriad Editions to discover, guide and support writers who are under-represented in publishing. The Spotlight Books series features books by six under-represented women. On sale now.

Find out more and buy here

Making the arts more diverse

We are an arts organisation supporting some of the UK's most talented underrepresented artists. Our mission is to make the arts more diverse and representative of the world we live in. We support underrepresented artists of all kinds with a specialism in working with writers.

What's Happening

Dec 8 2020

Akila Richards reflects on her experience as our 2020 Writer in Residence

My residency at Creative Future was my first. I was very excited and had big plans in how I could include nature, artistic practice and ...

Nov 30 2020

Ellie McKinlay-Khojinian reflects on her Creative Future Writing Workshops for members of the migrant, asylum-seeking, and refugee community in Norwich

Last week saw the final workshop in a series of six that I had the absolute pleasure of delivering on behalf of Creative Future, for ...

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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