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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

What’s the theme for the 2023 Writers’ Award? Every year since the Awards began, we’ve put forward a theme for the competition—these have included Home, Chemistry, Tomorrow, How It Started and Essential. (You can see how past winners have responded to them in our Award anthologies.) As 2023 is the tenth Awards, we’ve selected the […]