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Jan 17 2023

Our annual writing competition opens

We’re excited to announce our 2023 Writers’ Award competition is officially open for entries from all underrepresented writers! The theme for our 10th Awards is ‘X.’ Your work should respond to the theme, implicitly or explicitly, but we’re looking for quality writing first and foremost. The theme is a creative prompt, not a requirement. Send us your best work! Twelve writers in […]
A person is stood, looking at their notebook in deep though as they write a piece of creative non-fiction

Jan 3 2023

What is Creative Non-Fiction? New Genre Announced for CFWA 2023

For the tenth Creative Future Writers’ Award, we’re very excited to add a new genre—creative non-fiction. So what is creative non-fiction? Also known as narrative non-fiction, it generally means describing or telling a true story, events or experiences—and doing so creatively in a narrative way, or through literary or even poetic description. It usually recounts […]

Nov 8 2022

Creative Future awarded Arts Council NPO Funding

Creative Future is thrilled to announce we have been awarded funding as a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) for 2023-26 from Arts Council England. Our organisation was founded in 2007, established by two creatives with lived experience of some of the barriers the artists we work with face. Our mission from day one has always been […]

Nov 3 2022

Announcing the selected artists for FLOURISH 2

We are delighted to announce the artists selected for FLOURISH 2 – our second programme of Arts for Health & Wellbeing training. The creative practitioners below have been successful in securing a place on this free programme. We had over 40 applications from local artists; the standard was incredibly high and the selection process was […]

Nov 2 2022

Our 2022 Writers’ Award Winners’ Showcase

We had a brilliant time at our Writers’ Award Showcase, with a packed audience and a wonderful atmosphere. It was a joy to meet all the winners and hear them read their work so beautifully. Our Showcase is one of our favourite nights of the year; there’s always so much love in the room.💕 Thank […]

Sep 13 2022

Announcing the twelve winners of our 2022 Writers’ Award competition

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2022 Writers’ Award competition. Migration, belonging, human connections, the determination to create a better future against the odds and lived experiences of autism and gun crime are amongst the themes explored by the twelve winning entries. The winning submissions, alongside work by our 2022 Award judges, […]

Aug 1 2022

Our Writers’ Day is back!

We are thrilled to host our FREE Writers’ Day again in 2022. Join us on Sunday 23 October from 11 am in the Purcell Room of Southbank Centre. Writers, publishers and literary professionals share hints, tips and initiatives in a day of talks and panel events, hosted by TS Eliot prize-winning poet Joelle Taylor. The […]

Jul 21 2022

Announcing the shortlisted writers of the 9th annual Creative Future Writers’ Award

This year is the 9th annual Creative Future Writers’ Award (CFWA), the UK’s only national writing competition and development programme for all underrepresented writers. The Award celebrates exceptional writing from people who traditionally lack opportunities due to mental health issues, disability, identity, health or social circumstance. Today, (21 July 2022) thirty-six writers from a wide […]

Jul 14 2022

We’re thrilled to share the stats for this year’s Writers’ Award

We’ve been busy number crunching behind the scenes, and the stats for our 2022 Writers’ Award competition are simply incredible. We had a record number of entries this year, with almost 1,400 unpublished writers across the UK submitting their work. These are voices we don’t usually hear from in the mainstream literature sector, lots of […]

Jul 12 2022

Creative Future announced as an Amazon Literary Partnership grant recipient for 2022

We’re incredibly grateful to The Amazon Literary Partnership for awarding us a grant for 2022. It will allow our Impart mentees to deliver follow on workshops of their own in 2022/23, in various locations across the UK, as well as supporting our 2023 Writers’ Award workshops. With the goal of uplifting and amplifying overlooked and marginalised […]

Jul 4 2022

Our Writers’ Award Showcase features in London Literature Festival 2022

We are thrilled to be part of this year’s London Literature Festival at Southbank Centre. Join us to celebrate the twelve winners of our 2022 Creative Future Writers’ Award. Each winner read their work alongside acclaimed judges and guest writers, and are presented with their award. This year best-selling novelist Dorothy Koomson hosts our prize […]

May 12 2022

Mental Health Awareness Week

Mental Health Awareness Week is hosted by the Mental Health Foundation between 9-15 May 2022. The theme this year is ‘Loneliness’. We’ve been exploring this idea in some of our recent creative writing workshops run as part of our IMPART programme, in workshops run by Susan Hunter Downer and Yvonne Battle-Felton. Here are two poems […]

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