We’re currently recruiting for a freelance Project Assistant, to support our new Impart project–a training, mentoring, and workshop programme for Black, Asian and ethnic minority writers with mental health issues.

Congratulations to all twelve winners. We’re delighted to have found such brilliant new voices and are eager to continue working with them to develop their writing careers.

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.

This Social Prescribing Day (18 March 2021) is a double day for celebration! We’re thrilled to have been awarded funding from Thriving Communities to launch our PRESCRIBE TO THRIVE project. It’s a brand new partnership with various arts and health organisations in Brighton and Hove. The project partners are: Creative Future Hangleton and Knoll Project […]

Our annual Writers’ Award competition is officially open for submissions from underrepresented writers. It’s FREE to enter and you can submit ONE piece of writing in one category (poetry or fiction) or ONE in each category. This year’s theme is ESSENTIAL: what matters most? Your work should respond to the theme, implicitly or explicitly, but […]

The Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance has reviewed the recent work Hera has been doing through the pandemic. They’ve created a case study on the Hera Programme; ‘How have culture and creativity been supporting people in health, care and other institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic?’ Read the case study here: https://www.creativefuture.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CHW-Allicance-Case-Study.pdf 

The Arts &Health Network, Brighton & Hove is for freelance artists & health practitioners working in the Arts & Health Sector across our city. Creative Future is one of the partners in the Hera Partnership along with Robin Hood Health Foundation, The Old Market & Diversity & Ability. We are delivering a 3-year arts-focused social […]

My residency at Creative Future was my first. I was very excited and had big plans in how I could include nature, artistic practice and experimentation, and possibly a digital soundscape which I had successfully produced for another project. I particularly wanted to work with people from a variety of backgrounds, writing abilities, and wellbeing, […]

Last week saw the final workshop in a series of six that I had the absolute pleasure of delivering on behalf of Creative Future, for members of the migrant, asylum-seeking, and refugee community in Norwich, Norfolk. These were delivered in partnership with the National Centre for Writing, who was kind enough to let us use […]

Join us for a celebratory evening in which 12 extraordinary, underrepresented writers emerge into the limelight. Tickets are available now for the Creative Future Writers’ Award Digital Showcase 2020, featuring highlights and readings from the 12 outstanding winners of the UK’s only national writing competition and development programme for all underrepresented writers. The showcase includes […]