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Share Tweet Forward Share       Opportunities from our partners   Mslexia's 2021 Women's Poetry Competition is now open for entries! Judged by Pascale Petit, this year’s top prize is £2,000 plus publication in Mslexia magazine. Deadline: 6 December 2021 Find out more here     The Breakthrough YA & Children's Fiction Scholarship for Writers of Colour. This scholarship will award a talented writer of colour with limited financial means a place on our Writing YA & Children's Fiction course. Apply by 12 December. Find out more here   Breakthrough Novel-Writing Course for Writers of Colour. Eight talented writers of colour with low incomes will join this two-week Zoom/online novel-writing course with teaching, workshops and tutorials led by award-winning author Jacob Ross. Apply by 12 December. Find out more here   Breakthrough Mentoring Programme for Writers with Low Income. Five talented writers with low incomes will receive nine months of mentoring from a published author. Apply by 16 January. Find out more here   The Breakthrough Novel-Writing Scholarship for Writers of Colour. This scholarship will award a talented writer of colour with limited financial means a place on our six-month online Writing Your Novel course. Apply by 30 January. Find out more here     Writers & Artists have bursary places available for their online course Finding Your Voice. Explore the craft of creative writing by paying attention to voice. 25 January - 1 March 2022 7:00 to 9:00pm Find out more here     The Writing Coach is offering a free resource to help you develop a more confident and sustainable writing practice. You can access this short ebook which contains a five-day writing programme here You can also join The Writing Coach’s active and friendly community on Facebook. Find out more here     The Ginkgo Prize is open for submissions. It's the world's biggest ecopoetry prize in association with our friends Poetry School. First prize £5,000, second prize £2,000 and third prize £1,000, plus an additional £500 prize in partnership with AONB for ‘Best Poem of Landscape’, as well as a writing residency for the first prize winner. The prize is entering its fourth year with three new judges at the helm: Camille T. Dungy, Anna Selby, and Sara Hudston. Submissions are open 21 September 2021 until 31 January 2021 at 6pm (GMT). Find out more here     Our friends at The Literary Consultancy have unveiled the programme for WRITE CLUB PLUS, a new digital platform to help you finish your writing project in 2022, with workshops, Masterclasses, weekly prompts and more! Find out more here     Waterloo Press is holding a 'Happy Holidays' BOGOF sale. From now until midnight on 19 Dec all book orders on their website will be eligible for one of the following sales:   BUY ONE GET ONE FREE  With every order of a single title £10 and over, choose a free title* from their acclaimed backlist. With every order of a Waterloo Slim or Winstanley by Simon Jenner (£7- £8), choose a free title* from their pamphlet backlist. BUY TWO GET ONE FREE  With every order of two titles (minimum total of £20) choose *any* free book worth up to £12 from their shop.  To access the sales, please visit their website for the various voucher codes. Follow us on social media       Copyright © 2021 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