Creative Future newsletters

Happy New Year to all my followers, may 2018 be healthy and happy for you all.  And talking of the future, with information on jobs, opportunities and writing competitions, here are the latest Creative Future newsletters:

Including job opportunities with Creative Future.   Job opportunity: Creative Future Literary Awards Project Manager Creative Future seeks an experienced arts administrator and programmer to organise and deliver the Creative Future Literary Awards. This is a fantastic opportunity to support emerging under-represented writers, from our offices in Brighton. Closing date: January 7th 2018. Download the job pack from our website.   CFLA will be back in 2018 We're very pleased to announce that Arts Council England have granted funding for the Creative Future Literary Awards in 2018. We'll be back in the new year with our national writing competition, workshops, showcase event, Writer in Residence opportunity and some extra-special events. Keep an eye on our website in 2018. Happy holidays from the Creative Future team We wish you a wonderful festive break and a happy new year. If you would like to donate to Creative Future over the holidays, you can do so via the link below. Donate to Creative Future this Christmas. Writing advice from around the web What is a minor character? The Unthank School looks at the importance of minor characters in fiction. Read more Transform a short story into a novel Mary Lynn Bracht reveals questions to ask yourself when turning a short story into a novel. Read more Winter writing competitions 2017 Fancy a creative challenge over the Christmas break? Try these competitions. Read more Facebook Twitter Website Creative Future Community Base, 113 Queens Rd, Brighton, BN1 3XG Tel: 01273 234780 Email:info@creativefuture.org.uk Our Funders unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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December 2017 2018 Tight Modern Winners’ Tour Private View Thursday, 14th December, 5-6:30pm Jubilee Library We’ll be celebrating the very new version for the Winners’ Tour, a mini model of our iconic miniature replica of the Tight Modern, projecting the artwork of 15 artists--10 winners from last year’s tour plus 4 ‘wild card’ artists picked by Creative Future from Tight Modern 2016/17 exhibitors. The selected artists are: Dawn Blake, Lucy Richards, Elle Isolde, Joy Turner, Paula De Sousa, Don Gibson, Emily Calland, Danika McElroy, Pat Gregson, Anne Windsor, Adrian Mundy, Yvonne J Foster, Mike Strevens, Paul Bellingham, Jack Haslam. Please email info@creativefuture.org.uk if you'd like attend. Tight Modern Winners Tour 2017/ 18 will be showcased at the following venues: Jubilee Library – Brighton: 8 December – 3 January (closed over Christmas and New Year) Redbridge Central Library, Ilford: 5 January – 18 January  Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth: 20 January – 31 January 2018 MK Gallery, Milton Keynes: 2 February – 24 February 2018 Creative Future Literary Awards Project Manager Job Vacancy Hours: 24 hours (3 days) a week Deadline: Sunday 7th January  9pm Interviews: Monday 15th January We're very sad to see the departure of Sarah Juckes from the team and wish her all the best in her future endeavours. Creative Future seeks an experienced arts administrator and programmer to organize and deliver the Creative Future Literary Awards (CFLA) (www.cfliteraryawards.org.uk) - an annual high profile literary awards competition & event showcasing the UK's most talented under-represented writers. The CFLA Project Manager will: nurture partnerships, organize the workshop programme, awards anthology & award event, manage the writer-in-residence scheme and most importantly, provide support to under-represented writers in the lead up to the competition and after the awards event. If you would like to work for an enterprising arts charity in a small informal office based in Brighton download the job pack. Meet the Writer: Alan Morrison Thursday, 18th January, 2-3pm New Writing South This series showcases under-represented writers and artists and how they got their work ‘out there’. Alan Morrison is the author of several critically acclaimed poetry collections which include A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (Waterloo Press, 2009), Keir Hardie Street (Smokestack Books, 2010), Captive Dragons (Waterloo Press, 2011), Blaze a Vanishing/The Tall Skies (Waterloo Press, 2013), Shadows Waltz Haltingly (Lapwing, 2015) and Tan Raptures (Smokestack Books, 2017). He is editor of The Recusant (www.therecusant.org.uk). Reserve a place here Developing Confidence: Creative Coaching  Thursday, 25th January, 10am-5pm New Writing South Drawing on a mix of discussion, creative exercises and reflection, this workshop is designed to develop the tools and strategies to see us through situations where we may not feel confident – from reading out loud to meetings to interviews.   Reserve a place here Editing and Preparing Your Work for Submission Wednesday, 31st January, 1-4pm New Writing South Get your work ready for publication or competitions. Learn the art of editing, redrafting and polishing, increasing your chances of success. This workshop will show you how to get work ready for submission via a series of fun exercises. Reserve a place here Support Our Work Copyright © 2017 Creative Future, All rights reserved. Creative Future provide information about services and opportunities for under-represented artists and writers. Our mailing address is: Creative Future Creative Future, Community Base 113 Queens Road Brighton, Eng BN1 3XG United Kingdom

Our social media accounts are moving! We'll continue to post lots of writing related opportunities, resources and events, but you'll now find them over on our main Creative Future social media accounts. Got something to share with us?  Tag it with #CFLA Click the images below to follow Creative Future Copyright © 2017 Creative Future Literary Awards, All rights reserved.               Our mailing address is: Creative Future Literary Awards Community Base 113 Queens Rd Brighton, BN1 3XG United Kingdom