Creative Future CFWA Winners' Showcase - 25 October

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CFWA Winners 2019 We’re super excited to announce our amazing winners of this year's Creative Future Writers' Award competition. This year we received well over 1,000 entries—our most ever—and the standard was incredibly high. Prize winners were selected by our panel of industry experts and will be given the opportunity to develop their work through training, mentoring, assessment and coaching.  Prizes include £10,000 of cash and top writing development supplied by prominent publishers and development agencies. Our 2019 winners are: Congratulations to our twelve winners, and a HUGE thank you to all who entered. We really appreciated seeing all the amazing, heartfelt and courageous writing submitted. Click here for details of the winning pieces “CFWA was a huge catalyst for me. It gave me an enormous confidence boost, but also something really incredible to put on my CV. This year, with it's help, I've been able to go full time creative freelance and am doing far better than I could have ever hoped.” Lisette Auton - CFWA 2018 bronze award winner for poetry   Join us to celebrate our talented winners at this year's showcase event hosted by the fabulous Kerry Hudson, as part of London Literature Festival. Hear lesser-told stories of what home means within the rich array of experiences in the UK today. All winning entries are also published in the anthology Home, alongside work from Kerry Hudson, Anthony Anaxagorou and our guest author for 2019, Mahsuda Snaith - stay tuned for more details. When: Friday 25 October, 7pm. Where: Southbank Centre, London Book tickets here We're partnering with the London Literature Festival to present a FREE Writers’ Day event. Find out about prizes, initiatives and schemes that can advance your writing career in a day of free short talks, advice sessions with agents and networking opportunities. When: Saturday 26 October, 1pm. Where: Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre More info here Copyright © 2019 Creative Future, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Creative Future Creative Future, Community Base, 113 Queens Road Brighton, Eng BN1 3XG United Kingdom

CFWA Winners' Showcase We’re super excited to announce this year’s CFWA Showcase Event will be at the Southbank Centre as part of London Literature Festival, on Friday 25 October, 7pm. Hear lesser-told stories from writers selected for the Creative Future Writers’ Award at an event hosted by author Kerry Hudson, with poet Anthony Anaxagorou. This year’s Creative Future Writers’ Award is on the subject of ‘home’. At this event, hear 12 shortlisted writers read their stories and poems on what home means within the rich array of experiences in the UK today. All winning entries are published in the anthology Home, alongside work from Kerry Hudson, Anthony Anaxagorou and the guest author for 2019, Mahsuda Snaith. Book your tickets here “This was one of my absolute highlights last year and this year I'm honoured to be hosting. The CFWA represent all that can be good about this industry!” Kerry Hudson – author of Lowborn (Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns)  & Lead Judge Creative Future Writers’ Award 2019   We'll be announcing the winners of this year's competition next Wednesday 31 July - stay tuned! We also publish an anthology of the winning entries, which will be available to buy as a hard copy and as an eBook via Amazon. Further details released shortly.  New for 2019, we’re also partnering with the London Literature Festival to present a FREE Writers’ Day event. Find out about prizes, initiatives and schemes that can advance your writing career in a day of free short talks, advice sessions with agents and networking opportunities. London Literature Festival Writers’ Day has a particular focus on providing opportunities for literary voices from under-represented groups, supporting writers to reach new audiences and develop their careers. The talks take place in Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer across the day and consist of 15-minute presentations from artists, publishers and organisations. Click here for more info This September, we're pleased to present a FREE talk by award-winning short story writer and novelist Lisa Blower on her work, life and career. Lisa’s stories have won The Guardian National Short Story Award, been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and longlisted for The Sunday Times Short Story Award. These and others are collected in It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s (Myriad Editions, 2019). Her novel Sitting Ducks was shortlisted for the inaugural Arnold Bennett Prize and longlisted for The Guardian Not the Booker. Lisa was the first Writer in Residence at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, where she started her novel Green Blind, which tackles the politics of fracking in rural Shropshire. Book tickets here Copyright © 2019 Creative Future, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Creative Future Creative Future, Community Base, 113 Queens Road Brighton, Eng BN1 3XG United Kingdom