Thank you to everyone who entered The Creative Future Literary Awards this year. We received almost 500 entries and the breadth and quality of the work was impressive. 6 poems and 6 short stories were chosen from a shortlist of 36 entries by a judging panel of literary industry professionals, including Lemn Sissay, Aki Schilz (The Literary Consultancy), Ali Lewis (The Poetry School), Candida Lacey (Myriad Editions) and Pat Winslow (award-winning poet).
Prose Alphabetically by last name:
Carbon Dating by Kirsty Capes
Hearts for Sale by Jade Cuttle
Winter Melon Soup by Charis Fox
Virmala Nagra’s hypotheses on marriage and motherhood by Anita Goveas
The Walk In by Ava Ming
There was an old lady by Sadie Nott
Poetry Alphabetically by last name :
And I know by Lisette Auton
Operation Ranch Hand by Natalie Linh Bolderston
Elegy for an eight-year-old by Alice Hiller
The alchemy of memory by Brieanne Owen
Firesetter by Yvonne Reddick
houdini by Tony Spiers
Congratulations to our shortlisted writers, too: Destiny Adeyemi, Leila Bloom, Carrie Brown, Catherine Davies, Sally Davis, Demet Dayanch, Philip Forsyth, Elizabeth Gibson, Michael Handrick, Robert Holtom, Patrick Jemmer, Poppy Kleiser, Teresa Loughrey, Helen-Rose Owen, Sarah Pickthall, Elizabeth Richards, Stephen Riley, Catherine Sleeman, Pascal Vine, Nicola Wood, Teffy Wrightson and Rosalind York.
Winners will receive a share of £1000 cash and development prizes from leading literature organisations including The Literary Consultancy, Penguin Random House Writers’ Academy, The Poetry School, and Myriad Editions. Winners will also appear in an anthology produced by Just Content and Jellyfish Solutions alongside work by international poet superstar, Lemn Sissay, and award-winning author, Kerry Hudson.
The prizes that each of these writers have won will be announced and awarded at a Showcase Event as part of The London Literature Festival at 6.45pm on Friday October 26th.
Tickets to the event can be reserved here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/131047-lemn-sissay-presents-creative-future-literary-awards-2018
