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The Literary Consultancy @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Huge congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Creative Future Writing Awards! @creativefutureuk.bsky.social We're proud to support the Awards and look forward to working with the winners 🌠 Take a look at this year's winners: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2026-wr...

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2026 Writers' Award winners announced - Creative Future

The Creative Future Writers’ Award 2026 received over 1,850 entries from underrepresented writers across the country. We sincerely thank each and every one of you for giving us a chance to read your w...

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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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Bethlem Gallery @bethlemgallery.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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

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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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Bethlem Gallery @bethlemgallery.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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:

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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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Writers Online @writersonline.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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: bit.ly/CFWA26 #WritingCommunity

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Rose Kigwana @rosebird99.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Exciting news …

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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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Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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

The cover of Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston against a starry mountain background.

Natalie Linh Bolderston's debut collection traces her matrilineal heritage across continents and centuries, interweaving her voice with those of her mother and grandmother. The poems move between 1930s China, 1970s Vietnam and an ancient landscape populated by mother's, daughters and deities from Vietnamese and Chinese myth.

Divinations on Survival asks what it means to share a lineage in the shadow of war, and traces the complex legacies of survival that emerge as a result of conflict. Always returning to the question of how intimate, familial ties are warped and undone by political turmoil, violence and displacement, the collection distils and expands on stories passed down from grandmother to mother, to daughter, and casts women not as victims, but as powerful protectors, healers and survivors.

Formally innovative and supple, these poems disrupt and unsettle meaning, confronting the colonising force of language to work towards a radical new poetics.

Divinations on Survival comes out in spring 2026 and can be pre-ordered now. If you would like to book me for a reading, talk or workshop, please feel free to drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com

Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize. Her poem 'Middle Name with Diacritics' came third in the 2019 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. In 2024, she was Creative Future’s writer-in-residence for Stoke-on-Trent, her hometown. Her pamphlet, The Protection of Ghosts, was published by V. Press in 2019.

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 30/09/2025

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...

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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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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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

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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 · 02/07/2025

📣 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...

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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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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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Patrick Cash @paddycash.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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.’

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Apples and Snakes @applesandsnakes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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

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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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Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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

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Writing West Midlands @writingwestmids.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

📝 @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

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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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Writers & Artists @writersandartists.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Want to put pen to paper this April? Take a look at our upcoming events for the month, including a £5 masterclass on submitting to #literary competitions with @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Find out more: www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...

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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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