Creative Future
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We make the arts more diverse. We work nationally with underrepresented creatives & specialise in working with writers through our Writers' Award. #CFWA www.creativefuture.org.uk
Join us in August for our free weekly online Wednesday Talks Starting 5 August,1-2pm with Jess Murrain: Poetic Practice Get your free ticket via link in bio! Jess will explore aspects of writing poetry and the relationship between poetic and artist practice. @creativefutureuk.bsky.social
Booking is now open - hope you can join us. @creativefutureuk.bsky.social @headwaylondon.bsky.social @cripticarts.bsky.social @disabilityarts.bsky.social @disabilitydaily.bsky.social @johnpring.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social @dadafest.bsky.social @universityofatypical.org
Together! 2012 CIC@together2012cic.bsky.social · last mo.Join us to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month on Thursday 30 July from 7-8pm, free on Zoom with BSL. Poetry / dance / performance art https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unity-in-diversity-a-celebration-for-south-asian-heritage-month-tickets-1993527535523 #SAHM2026 #unityindiversity #ourstoriesmatter
The deadline for our 2026 Writers' Award Competition is just under a month away 🚨 It's completely FREE to enter and 15 winners will receive £25k worth of prizes 🌟 The competition is open to poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction under the theme 'Material' Enter now: bit.ly/CFWA2026
The @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is officially open! ✍️ It’s free to enter and 15 winners will receive £25k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Material'. Find out more, including how to enter: bit.ly/CFWA26 #WritingCommunity
The @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is officially open! ✍️ It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £25k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Material'. Find out more, including how to enter:
Creative Future Writers' Award - Creative Future
The Creative Future Writers Award is an annual development programme for talented writers from a wealth of diverse backgrounds that are under-represented in mainstream publishing.
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The @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is officially open! ✍️ It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £25k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Material'. Find out more, including how to enter: https://bit.ly/CFWA26 #WritingCommunity
Exciting news …
Creative Future@creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 7mo agoOur Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is officially open! ✍️ It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £25k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Material'. Find out more, including how to enter: bit.ly/CFWA2026 #WritingCommunity
Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is officially open! ✍️ It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £25k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Material'. Find out more, including how to enter: bit.ly/CFWA2026 #WritingCommunity
We still have spaces left on our upcoming workshop, Queer Nature 🌈 This 4-session series with Simon Maddrell will explore the the glorious and surprising variations of queerness found in nature, and use them as a launchpad for creative writing! Book: www.creativefuture.org.uk/workshop/que...
Happy New Year! 🎉 We hope you've had a great start to the year. We're excited to be back with new writing workshops ✍️ Sign up: www.creativefuture.org.uk/workshops/
My debut poetry collection, Divinations on Survival, can now be pre-ordered! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... See below for more info. If you'd like to book me for a reading / talk / workshop next year, drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com #PoetryNews #UKPoetry
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! 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! See the announcement of our Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 winners: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...
Congratulations to all our Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 winners! Read the full announcement: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...
Congratulations to the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 poetry winners: #WritingCommunity #Writer #UnderrepresentedWriters #Writing #AmWriting #WritingCompetition #CFWA #poetry #creativenonfiction #fiction #LoveWriting #WritersNetwork #WritingLife #DiverseVoices
Congratulations to the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 fiction winners: #WritingCommunity #Writer #UnderrepresentedWriters #Writing #AmWriting #WritingCompetition #CFWA #poetry #creativenonfiction #fiction #LoveWriting #WritersNetwork #WritingLife #DiverseVoices
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
📣 We're excited to launch a new service offering individual feedback on your writing. Delivered by experienced and published underrepresented writers. We can offer appraisals on poetry, and fiction or creative non-fiction short stories/novel excerpts. www.creativefuture.org.uk/one-to-one-f...
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...
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Applications to our 2025 Writers' Award are now CLOSED! Good luck to all those who submitted 😊 We can't wait to read your work! 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
Writers’ HQ@writershq.bsky.social · last yr.The world needs your stories (and poems. And non-fic. And your weird-ass experimental word cloud story about werewolves at a spreadsheet convention). Here's our top five subs and comp opportunities for May. Full details here writershq.co.uk/5-competitio... Oh, and let us know if you've subbed!
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
Looking forward to kicking off this creative writing workshop course with @creativefutureuk.bsky.social tonight: www.creativefuture.org.uk/workshop/wri...
Writing Prose (Online) - Creative Future
Learn how to write powerful and compelling prose, focussed on plot, character, dialogue and editing.
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The deadline for our 2025 Writers' Award Competition is just a month away! It's completely FREE to enter and 15 winners will receive £20k worth of prizes 🌟 The competition is open to poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction under the theme 'Wild'. Enter now: bit.ly/CFWA2025 #Writer #Writing
One month left to enter the @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers Award for UK-based writers from underrepresented backgrounds. Deadline: Sunday 18 May at 11:59pm Prompt: ‘wild’ #Poetry: 50 lines Fiction: 2,000 words Creative Non-Fiction: 2,000 words
Creative Future@creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 2y agoOur Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for Underrepresented Writers is officially open! ✍️ It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Wild'. Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #diversevoices
📝 @creativefutureuk.bsky.social are holding workshops in Stourbrigde as part of this year’s Writers In Residence programme, join Sallyanne Rock for a 2-part creative writing workshop inspired by watching glassmakers at work and spending time with the stunning exhibitions. buff.ly/fBB3XRR
Making Language - workshop 1 (Stourbridge) - Creative Future
Join Sallyanne Rock for a 2-part creative writing workshop inspired by watching glassmakers at work and spending time with the stunning exhibitions.
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