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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]