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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2026 Writers' Award competition 🎉 Congratulations to all 15 winners. We are delighted to have discovered these new and exciting voices as they embark on their writing journeys: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2026-wr...

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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...

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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/

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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...

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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...

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Congratulations to all our Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 winners! Read the full announcement: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

@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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

@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

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

📣⁠ 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

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Still not sure whether you want to enter the 2025 Creative Future Writers' Award competiton? Sophia Khan shares how it could be just what your writing career needs!⁠ ⁠ Find out more about the award, including how to enter for FREE: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/our-ann... #WritingCommunity

Quote from 2024 Creative Future Writers' Award Silver Fiction winner, Sophia Khan:

“The award itself is so generous with the access it gave me to the industry as well as the resources and tools to further improve my writing. I felt part of a writing community straight away and the ongoing development really nurtured my identity as a writer. Since then, I have gained a place on the London Writers Awards Development Programme. I know that this would not have happened were it not for all the opportunities that Creative Future gave me, including the confidence to pursue writing and take it more seriously.”

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A massive thank you to everyone who donated and helped spread the word. Your genoristy has raised £2,372! 🎉⁠ ⁠ This will help to keep the Creative Future Writers' Awards free to enter for ALL underrepresented writers❤️⁠ ⁠ Want to enter? Find out more: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/our-ann...

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

From 18-25 March, #BigGive is doubling every donation made to Creative Future! 📣 The Writers’ Award is the only free to enter national writing competition for ALL underrepresented writers. Your donation will help keep it free! Donate: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... #ArtsForImpact

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Our 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

Artwork for the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 with the title theme 'Wild'. Deadline for entry 18 May 2025.

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