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 […]

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 […]

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 We had a record number of entries this year, with almost 1,400 unpublished writers across the UK submitting their work.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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

How Moth the Night Is was created for Third Thursdays, an arts, music, and culture programme that aims to make the centre of Brighton the place to be, with events, performances, film projections, and new artwork commissions.

On Thursday 21 April a programme of film screenings, projections and live music will take place on North Street, East Street, North Laine and The Lanes between 7 pm and 10 pm. With music by musicians from Brighton & Hove and films by artists and filmmakers from across the globe.

We are thrilled to announce the ten Next Up writers we’ll be supporting in 2022. Next Up is a programme specifically for unpublished writers. All writers come from communities that are underrepresented in the publishing industry.