Creative Future

Join Creative Future Writers' Award 2024 winner, Maya Little for a 4-part online workshop series 'Writing About Work' ✍️⁠
📅 Mondays, 6 - 27 October
⏰️ 6-8pm
🎟️ £50 / £25 concessions
@creativefutureuk.bsky.social workshops are for all underrepresented writers
www.creativefuture.org.uk/workshop/wri...

And a huge thank you to our partners and prizegivers who make the Creative Future Writers' Award possible!⁠
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See the announcement of our Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 winners: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...

A huge thank you to our brilliant judges for the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025!⁠
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See the announcement of our Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 winners: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...

A huge congratulations to all of the 2025
@creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers' Award winners! 🎉

Congratulations to all our Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 winners!

Read the full announcement: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...

William Wyld is a poet and artist from London. They are a Poetry Archive Now winner, were highly commended in the Bridport Prize, and have performed widely including at the Queen Elizabeth Hall alongside the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Nathan Steward is from the Cotswolds and currently studying English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter where he is a fiction editor for the University’s literary journal, and the Editor In Chief of the arts and culture magazine.

Beatrice Feng is an agender, aroace poet from Changshu, China. Their work has appeared in Wilderness House Literary Review, Writing Disorder, The Wordarium Journal and other literary journals and magazines. They hold a BA in English Literature, Creative Writing and Practice.

Godelieve de Bree is a poet and critic based in London who has been published in Propel, TATE and fourteen poems. Her critical work has featured in Poetry London, The London Magazine, and LARB.

Jasmin Allenspach is an exophonic Swiss writer and award-winning physicist. Speaking seven languages, she writes in English, despite her mother tongue being Swiss German, and her poetry explores multilingualism, sexism, science, and severed roots, both metaphorical and literal.

Congratulations to the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 poetry winners:
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Emma Allotey has been published in Peepal Tree Press’s Oluwale Now anthology (2023) and longlisted for the Harvill Secker and Bloody Scotland BAME writer’s competition in 2021 for an excerpt of her novel Grudge. She was longlisted for the SI Leeds Prize 2012.

Abu Leila is a writer interested in love, violence and revolution. Their work, preserving family histories of anti-colonial resistance, was shortlisted for the 2024 Wasafiri New Writing Prize and won the 2024 Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize.

Amy Leonard is a writer from Suffolk. She gained her Bachelor's degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the Open University in 2024. This is the first time her work has been published. She is currently working on multiple novels simultaneously.

Eve Naden has an English degree from the University of York and works as a Project Manager for the Civil Service, teaching English in her spare time. Diagnosed with autism in 2024, she writes to make sense of a world that's increasingly difficult to navigate.

Laurel Hart is a writer and illustrator born and raised in East Sussex. After completing a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, she has been working in museums and medieval castles. She is currently working on her debut novel.

Congratulations to the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 fiction winners:
#WritingCommunity #Writer #UnderrepresentedWriters #Writing #AmWriting #WritingCompetition #CFWA #poetry #creativenonfiction #fiction #LoveWriting #WritersNetwork #WritingLife #DiverseVoices

Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed is a research & evaluation specialist focused on gender equality & inclusion. Her essays have been published in Critical Muslim and 3 of Cups Press. Her writing has been featured in New African Magazine, African Arguments, The Republic, and Selamta Magazine.

@matt-taylor.bsky.social is an award-winning creative non-fiction writer, who won ‘A Writing Chance 24/25’ (Substack strand), was longlisted for Fish Publishing’s short memoir competition 2024, was Highly commended at the Life Writing prize 2021 and won Spread The Word’s Scribe UK 2021.

@stephanieytam.bsky.social is a radio journalist, producing content for Freakonomics Radio, New York Public Radio, and BBC World Service. Her writing has been published in The Believer, The Behavioral Scientist and Slate, among others, and she won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Competition

gobscure is a mixed-media artist who has toured 'brokenword,' a show about their lived experience of homelessness across the UK. They were a finalist in the Arts and Homelessness international awards and have a permanent text-based mural 'wallriot' at the Museum of Homelessness.

Ellen Rickford began writing regularly eighteen months ago, finding that turning experiences and observations from a sometimes painful world into stories, made life feel altogether warmer and more colourful. Her favourite form is short fiction.

Congratulations to the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 creative non-fiction winners:
#WritingCommunity #Writer #UnderrepresentedWriters #Writing #AmWriting #WritingCompetition #CFWA #poetry #creativenonfiction #fiction #LoveWriting #WritersNetwork #WritingLife #DiverseVoices

Announcing the winners of our 2025 Writers' Award competition for #UnderrepresentedWriters. We received 1,600+ entries from across the UK. THANK YOU, every one of you, for allowing us to read your work. Today, we share our winners: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...
#CFWA #DiverseVoices

One-To-One Feedback - Creative Future We’re pleased to offer one-to-one personalised feedback on your work, delivered by experienced and published underrepresented writers, for those at any stage. See the full list of our feedback readers...

📣 We're excited to launch a new service offering individual feedback on your writing. Delivered by experienced and published underrepresented writers.⁠
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We can offer appraisals on poetry, and fiction or creative non-fiction short stories/novel excerpts.

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Applications to our 2025 Writers' Award are now CLOSED!⁠
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Good luck to all those who submitted 😊 We can't wait to read your work!⁠
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Please be patient whilst we read all of entries submitted.
All entrants will be contacted and the winners announced by mid-September.

📣⁠ There's just 5 DAYS left to enter the Creative Future Writers' Award competition!

Don't let anything stop you from believing in yourself and submitting your work before 11.59pm on 18 May!⁠

Enter now: bit.ly/CFWA2025⁠

#WritingCommunity #Writer #Writing #AmWriting #WritingCompetition #CFWA

Teaching a writing workshop tonight for @creativefutureuk.bsky.social on Character. I love this quote from Woolf’s essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown: ‘we go down into them as we descend into some enormous cavern. Lights swing about; we hear the boom of the sea; it is all dark, terrible and uncharted.’

Psst @creativefutureuk.bsky.social
@bridportprize.bsky.social
@bathnovelaward.co.uk

The deadline for the @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is just around the corner - 18 May! ✍️⁠

It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Wild'.

⁠Find out more and enter: bit.ly/CFWA2025