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Mar 18 2021

Creative Future receives funding from Thriving Communities

This Social Prescribing Day (18 March 2021) is a double day for celebration! We're thrilled to have been awarded funding from Thriving Communities to launch our PRESCRIBE TO THRIVE project. It's a brand new partnership with ...

A writer is sat at a table with their notebook open on a blank page. Their pen is resting above the page, as they just begin to write their next masterpiece!

Mar 1 2021

2021 Writers Award Competition Open!

Our annual Writers' Award competition is officially open for submissions from underrepresented writers. It's FREE to enter and you can submit ONE piece of writing in one category (poetry or fiction) or ONE in each category. ...

Feb 8 2021

Hera Reviewed by The Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance

The Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance has reviewed the recent work Hera has been doing through the pandemic. They've created a case study on the Hera Programme; 'How have culture and creativity been supporting people in ...

Jan 29 2021

First Arts & Health Network, Brighton & Hove – Our First Meeting

The Arts &Health Network, Brighton & Hove is for freelance artists & health practitioners working in the Arts & Health Sector across our city. Creative Future is one of the partners in the Hera Partnership along ...

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 experimentation, and possibly a digital soundscape which I had successfully produced ...

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 members of the migrant, asylum-seeking, and refugee community in Norwich, Norfolk. ...

Oct 6 2020

2020 Writers’ Award Digital Showcase

Join us for a celebratory evening in which 12 extraordinary, underrepresented writers emerge into the limelight. Tickets are available now for the Creative Future Writers’ Award Digital Showcase 2020, featuring highlights and readings from the 12 ...

Jul 28 2020

The winners of our 2020 Writers’ Award competition

Grief, male sexuality, the plight of pets in Covid-stricken Wuhan, and Scottish teenagers’ love lives are amongst the themes of the twelve winning entries of the Creative Future Writers’ Award, announced Tuesday 28 July. Now in ...

Jul 6 2020

The CFWA 2020 Shortlist

We’re pleased to announce the shortlist of the 2020 Writers’ Award. This year we had 1,400 entries from all over the country—our highest number ever. The judges were incredibly impressed by the standard of work. Thanks ...

Jun 16 2020

Creative Future joins The Hera Partnership – a new arts & health programme for Brighton & Hove

Brighton & Hove City Council have made a major funding award to a charity partnership that puts the arts at the heart of health. A three-year funding award of nearly £300,000 has been made by the ...

Apr 20 2020

Online Writers’ Day 2020

The National Centre for Writing and Creative Future present the 2020 Online Writers’ Day: free short talks and Q&A sessions for underrepresented writers.  Find out how to start and advance yourself as a writer and what ...

Apr 14 2020

Announcing Our 2020 Writer In Residence

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Akila Richards as our 2020 Writer In Residence. We received a record 54 applications this year of extremely high quality. We’d like to thank all of those who applied ...

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