Nov 29 2023

Arts & Health Network Festive Celebration and Arts Workshop

Wednesday 13th December | 10am – 12pm | Friends Meeting House, Brighton. Our December Arts & Health Network meeting will be a festive celebration, including an arts workshop, and a feedback session on what you'd like future network meetings to cover.

Sep 25 2023

Finding A Language: Liverpool Writer In Residence Day Mattar’s Reflections

Day Mattar was our 2023 Liverpool Writer In Residence–bringing the residency to the writer, and letting them make it best fit the place and their ideas. Their residency at FACT Gallery included readings, workshops, and on-site interaction. They also held workshops at GYRO, and wrote a new poem for the CF Writers’ Award anthology.   A room …

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Sep 20 2023

Announcing the Creative Future Writers’ Award 2023 winners

The Creative Future Writers’ Award 2023 received over 1,300 entries from underrepresented writers across the country. We sincerely thank every one of you for giving us a chance to read your work. We’re pleased to announce those selected: Creative Non-Fiction Platinum:  Siam Hatzaw, “Homecoming” Gold:  Bethany Handley, “The National Trust’s Bomb Disposal Squad” Silver: C. …

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Sep 19 2023

Join Creative Future as our new Communications Manager

We are looking for a new Communications Manager to support Creative Future build on the strong foundations already laid. You will share our ambition to further develop the quality, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility of Creative Future’s work to benefit our communities whilst supporting our resilience through your excellent communication skills and creativity. We celebrate and …

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Lisette wearing her Writer In Residence cape

Sep 11 2023

What Is Home? Darlington Writer In Residence Lisette Auton’s reflections

Lisette Auton was our 2023 Darlington Writer In Residence–bringing the residency to the writer, and letting them make it best fit the place and their ideas. Her residency included writing a new piece for the CF Writers’ Award anthology, six writing workshops, and roving about town to cafes, bookstores, markets, parks, the train station and …

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Sep 5 2023

Goodbye to our Director Jane McMorrow

After five amazing years, today we say farewell to our Director, Jane McMorrow, who leaves Creative Future to pursue other opportunities. Jane’s hard work and tireless efforts created a new, thriving arts & health strand and achieved a long-standing goal of Creative Future joining the Arts Council National Portfolio. She also steered the organisation through …

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Jun 29 2023

Creative Future Welcomes Rose Kigwana as New CEO

After five years Creative Future’s current Director/CEO Jane McMorrow is stepping down having successfully secured the organisation’s place as a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) of Arts Council England. “It’s been a wonderful five years with Creative Future. The team are incredible and the best part of the role has been working with them and achieving …

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Jun 26 2023

2018 CFWA Winner Yvonne Reddick Wins a Northern Writers’ Award for Memoir

Huge congratulations to our 2018 Writers’ Award winner Yvonne Reddick who recently won a Northern Writers’ Award for Memoir. Yvonne will be developing her book project Fire on Winter Hill, about her father’s passion for hills and mountains, his work in the petroleum industry, and the climate change impacts she’s witnessed in hills and high …

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Jun 26 2023

Cover Reveal – Our 2023 Writers’ Award Anthology

Each year we publish an anthology featuring the award-winning entries from the Creative Future Writers’ Award competition. This year is the tenth anniversary of the awards and the theme for our writing competition was ‘X’. Our anthology features the winning entries from the 2023 Creative Future Writers’ Award, the UK’s only national competition for all …

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Day performing and looking fabulous

Jun 20 2023

Announcing our Liverpool Writer In Residence, Day Mattar

Day Mattar will be our Liverpool 2023 Regional Writer In Residence. Day ran two workshops exclusively for GYRO, Liverpool’s LGTBQ+ youth support agency, which they had greatly benefited from as a young person. Across the summer, Day will be in residence and facilitating workshops at FACT gallery–look out for them (wearing a yellow cape!) on …

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Jun 8 2023

What Is Home? Announcing our Darlington Writer In Residence Lisette Auton

Lisette Auton will be Darlington’s Writer In Residence in July 2023. She’ll undertake a roving residency across town, with a pack of writing prompts for anyone who wants to have a go, or just chat about what a writer does and about Darlington. Lisette will explore ideas about what makes a place your home. Sometimes …

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Mar 20 2023

We have an exciting opportunity to join Creative Future as our new CEO

Creative Future is a national charity that specialises in supporting creative people, artists and communities who are underrepresented in mainstream culture and face barriers and inequality to opportunities. Our mission is to make the arts more diverse and representative of the world we live in. In recognition of the quality and impact of our work, …

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