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A round-up of opportunities from our partners We've compiled a whole host of opportunities, events, and activities for the writers among you, specifically from our brilliant prize partners of the Creative Future Writers' Award. All these organisations do incredible work in the world of creative writing and supporting under-represented writers.  Writers’ Toolkit Online Studying from home is easy with National Centre for Writing’s online courses. All you need is a computer with an internet connection. You don't need to install new software or be a techie. You can sign up to the courses from anywhere in the world and work through the courses at your own pace. Start off with some of the free courses and browse the full catalogue when you're ready. Find out more here: courses.nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk Online feedback sessions with a professional editor  TLC is delighted to announce a limited number of online writers’ surgeries, giving you easy digital access to one-to-one feedback from an experienced TLC Reader. Use your Online Writer’s Surgery to…  Brainstorm a new idea  Troubleshoot a specific issue  Get a perspective on one aspect of narrative craft  Find new inspiration  Get out of a writer’s block  Stay motivated to keep writing.   More details can be found here New short story collection She-Clown and Other Stories is Hannah Vincent’s recently published short story collection. Her fierce and funny feminist stories shine with everyday heroines at work and at play. Ordinary lives are transformed as women try to be themselves while clowning around for others. There's currently a 25% discount plus free UK p&p on all Myriad books using the offer code: MYREADATHOME For more details click here Writing Magazine are doing loads to help writers stay sane and creative during the lockdown. Including all of this: A special print subscription offer: First 3 issues for just 3. CLAIM HERE Celebrate the NHS heroes with their new writing competition and all proceeds will be donated to the NHS. Competition details can be found here Daily news updates on publishing opportunities and more - click here for details WIN £1,000 in their new Grand Prize writing competition. See details here Download their Writers App and get daily inspiration and prompts to keep you occupied. Available on Apple and Android.  Writers & Artists have announced the return of the W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize. This year, they’ve teamed up with Lisa McInerney, award-winning author and tireless advocate of working-class writers. This prize offers writers a chance to win a year of mentoring from Lisa herself, a £200 cash prize, a year-long membership for The Society of Authors, a place at one of our writing and publishing events, a bundle of creative writing books, and online publication on the W&A site. For more information on how to enter, visit the Prize page here Poetry Workshop This workshop looks at the poetics of ships, shipwrecks, and ghost ships. Delve into the human histories set adrift at sea, and sunk to the bottom of the ocean, the ones washed up on shore and wrecked on the rocks in stormy weather. Saturday 16 May, 10.30 am – 4.30 pm via Zoom. Find out more about the workshop here. Our friends at The Poetry School offer concessions to their activities. Find out more here Copyright © 2020 Creative Future, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Creative Future Creative Future, Community Base, 113 Queens Road Brighton, Eng BN1 3XG United Kingdom

Announcing our 2020 Writer in Residence  We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Akila Richards as our 2020 Writer In Residence. We received a record 54 applications this year of extremely high quality. We’d like to thank all of those who applied and wish them luck with their work.   You can read more on Akila's work via our blog here Akila will undertake a residency at Preston Park Recovery Centre later in the year when current measures have been lifted. She will serve on the Creative Future Writers’ Award judging panel, contribute to the awards anthology, and read her work at the showcase. Akila will also provide writing workshops to their service users and at another Brighton organisation. Due to current conditions, Akila will facilitate online writing workshops. For more information about these, please see full details below.  We’re offering online video workshops via Zoom with our 2020 Writer In Residence, Akila Richards. We’ll provide a short guide on getting started with Zoom to all participants, but it’s very easy to use. Poets: Explore poetic forms such as prose, couplets, haiku and free form. Practice writing with imagery, line breaks and metaphors. There will also be a session in how to read your poems to keep the audience engaged and reading out your favourite poem. Prose: In-session exercises on character development, writing engaging dialogue, the short story arc and structure. Explore the use of language and dialects and creating a consistent world in speculative fiction. The last session will include extract readings of your new or revised work. Wednesdays: poetry, 11am-1pm and prose, 2-4pm  6 May 13 May 20 May 27 May 3 June 10 June Please book on only one course to reserve spaces for others. Book poetry course here Book prose course here There's still plenty of time to submit to our writing competition, open until 31 May. It's FREE to enter and there are over £12,000 worth of cash and writer development prizes up for grabs. This year’s theme is Tomorrow and, as ever, we are looking for broad interpretations in all genres of short fiction and poetry. In poetry, judges are looking for a maximum of 42 lines words and in fiction a maximum of 2,000 words. Please make sure you read the rules and eligibility criteria before submitting. Happy writing and good luck!  Enter the competition here Did you know you can support Creative Future every time you shop online at Amazon. Just choose us as your charity to support. Donations are made at no extra cost to you and it's a great way to take advantage of a service you’re likely using anyway. For more information about the AmazonSmile programme click here. Follow us on social media for loads of resources from us and our partners to stay creative at while at home Copyright © 2020 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

Dear friends, During this uncertain time, we have temporarily suspended our programme of face to face delivery and are exploring how our creative offer can work digitally for the interim period. For those of you who had already booked on our CFWA writing workshops, we are creating a series of virtual workshops and will be in touch with you directly. Stay tuned for further details on upcoming workshops in Brighton that have yet to be announced. Our small team of staff are working from home and we are looking at ways to continue providing support to our artists and writers whilst maintaining social distancing measures. We’re sharing daily creative challenges and resources through our social network channels, so do follow us and keep an eye on these. We’d love to know what ways you’ve remained creative so please do tag us and share anything new you’ve been working on.   Our Annual Writing Competition  For the writers among you, our Writers’ Award competition is still open for entries until the 31 May. It’s FREE to enter and open to all under-represented writers. We’re looking for poetry (max 42 lines) or fiction (2000 words) and the theme is ‘Tomorrow’. We have over £12,000 worth of cash and writer development prizes up for grabs. Click here for full details, including how to enter.   How You Can Support Us If you value the work of Creative Future please consider supporting us at this difficult time with a donation - every amount will help us provide ongoing support for under-represented artists and writers, and will allow us to plan for a return to activity in the near future: https://www.creativefuture.org.uk/donate Copyright © 2020 Creative Future, All rights reserved. Creative Future provide information about services and opportunities for under-represented artists and writers. You are receiving this email because you opted in to communications from Creative Future. Our mailing address is: Creative Future Creative Future, Community Base, 113 Queens Road Brighton, Eng BN1 3XG United Kingdom