One month left to enter our Writers' Award competition!You have just under one month left to enter our 2026 Writers' Award competition! Don’t miss out on this brilliant opportunity to have your work published, read at our showcase at the London Literature Festival and win cash and development prizes.
Fifteen winners will share: You have until Tuesday 5 May 2025, 11.59pm to submit your poetry (up to 50 lines), fiction or creative non-fiction (up to 2,000 words).
It’s free to enter and we aim to make it as easy as possible to submit. You can enter online, by email, or by post. |
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We're looking for trustees |
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Creative Future is looking for new Trustees as we move into our 20th year. Could you help us amplify and support underrepresented writers and artists?
If you’re passionate about literature, creative health and the arts and want to help make a real difference, we would love to hear from you.
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Lyric EssaysThis 2 week workshop explores the hybridity and fluidity of the lyric essay, planting the seeds for your own creative experiments, and using the lyric essay as a space of wonder and creative liberation.- Mondays: 11 + 18 May
- 6 - 8pm
- £25 / £12.50 concessions
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Meet the Agent: Sarah Brooks, Darley Anderson AgencyA unique opportunity to hear directly from an experienced literary agent at one of the UK’s leading agencies. You’ll learn about the role of a literary agent, the process of manuscript submissions, dos and don’ts of pitching your work, and what agents look for.- Wednesday: 27 May
- 6.30 - 7.30pm
- £5
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Poetics of Discovery: Spontaneity, Improvisation, and the Living PoemExplore poetry as a living process—where rhythm, memory, and observation collide to create something unexpected. You'll experiment with how poems emerge from the natural world, the productive ‘chaos’ of chance, and the visual energy of the page.- Mondays: 1 - 22 June
- 6 - 8pm
- £75 / £37.50 concessions
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Modern Stories: It Must Be Love
A romance novel-writing competition for writers of colourCurtis Brown Creative teamed up with Headline Eternal to launch Modern Stories: It Must Be Love, a new romance novel-writing competition seeking to uplift and support emerging writers from Black, Asian, mixed heritage and/or multiple ethnic backgrounds.
The winner will receive a £1,000 cash prize, a place on Curtis Brown Creative’s flagship three-month online Writing Your Novel course, two editorial mentoring sessions with a Headline Eternal editor, an introductory meeting with Curtis Brown literary agent Sheila Crowley and a hamper of Headline Eternal romance books.
The deadline is Tuesday 14 April. |
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Free tickets for upcoming Writing Our Legacy online talksAI, Publishing, and Creative Writing with Farhana Shaikh
Wednesday 15 April, 6:30pm - 8pm.
Online talk on AI and the implications for writers, creatives and communities of colour. Redeem your two free tickets by using the code FREEAI, which will reveal the hidden tickets at the Eventbrite checkout.
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Intimate Ecologies, an online talk with Ama Josephine B. Johnstone
Sundau 26 April, 11am - 1pm.
An insight into Dr Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone’s intradisciplinary research around the topic of Intimate Ecologies, a framework for holding together Blackness, ecology, pleasure and queer futurity.
Redeem your two free tickets by using the code FREEABJ, which will reveal the hidden tickets at the Eventbrite checkout.
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