Future Creative Award in its Edition 2025 and Many Valuable Prizes
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Applicant criteria
NationalityNo specific nationality required
Age
- 18 - 60
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity FieldForeign Languages and Literature, Music, Art and Graphic Design
Needed documentsSample of your work
Opportunity description
Creative Future Award is pleased to announce the edition of this year, which launched on the theme "Wild". It is open to talented, unpublished and underrepresented writers who face barriers and lack opportunities. The theme is a creative prompt, not a requirement; it is looking for quality writing first and foremost. Send your best work.
Benefits
If you are among the winners, you will get one of the following awards:
- Poetry Platinum: £75 cash prize; The Literary Consultancy Chapter & Verse mentorship and manuscript assessment & Being A Writer membership; Faber Academy Developing Your Poetry course; year's membership from the Poetry Society
- Poetry Gold: £50 cash prize; The Literary Consultancy manuscript assessment; Poetry School online masterclass; year's membership from the Poetry Society; Writers' & Artists Yearbook
- Poetry Silver: £25 cash prize; The Writing Coach manuscript assessment & coaching; 1:1 consultation with Bad Betty Press; year's membership from the Poetry Society
- Poetry Bronze: Poetry School manuscript assessment & feedback session; year's membership to the Poetry Society
- Fiction Platinum: £75 cash prize; Curtis Brown Creative mentorship & agent meeting; year's The Literary Consultancy Being A Writer membership; Writing A Novel course with Faber Academy; year's membership with Society of Authors
- Fiction Gold: £50 cash; The Literary Consultancy manuscript assessment ; Writers Online Novel Writing Bootcamp course; year's membership from the Society of Authors; Writers' & Artists' Yearbook
- Fiction Silver: £25 cash prize; manuscript assessment & coaching from The Writing Coach; 1:1 agent consultation with Clara Foster; year's membership to The Society of Authors
- Fiction Bronze: Booksmiths London mentoring or manuscript assessment; year's membership to Writers HQ
- Creative Non-Fiction Platinum: £75 cash prize; The Literary Consultancy Chapter & Verse mentorship and manuscript assessment & Being A Writer membership; Faber Academy’s Memoir & Life Writing course; year's membership with Society of Authors
- Creative Non-Fiction Gold: £50 cash prize; The Literary Consultancy manuscript assessment; online course from Writing Magazine; year's membership from Society of Authors; Writers' & Artists' Yearbook
- Creative Non-Fiction Silver: £25 cash prize; manuscript assessment & coaching from The Writing Coach; 1:1 agent consultation with Salma Begum of Greyhound Literary; year's membership to The Society of Authors
- Creative Non-Fiction Bronze: Writers' & Artists' Opening Chapters manuscript assessment & feedback session; year's membership to Writers HQ
- Joint Prizes: All winners receive one year's membership to Jericho Writers and Writers Online, and Creative Future's Pitching To Agents guide; are published in the award anthology; read their work at the showcase event as part of the London Literature Festival; be invited to our Writer’s Day event as part of the London Literature Festival; receive ongoing support, advice, and signposting from Creative Future
- Highly Commended Poetry: Writers' & Artists' Yearbook or guide; year's membership to the Poetry Society
- Highly Commended Fiction: Writers' & Artists' Yearbook or guide; year's membership to Writers HQ
- Highly Commended Creative Non-Fiction: Writers' & Artists' Yearbook or guide; year's membership to Writers HQ
Eligibility criteria
You should follow the following criteria:
- The Writers' Award is only open to those who are:
- Over 18 years old.
- Currently living in the UK (regardless of immigration status).
- From underrepresented backgrounds—those whose opportunities are limited as a result of:
- Black, Asian, mixed heritage or other global majority background
- Gypsy or Irish Traveler
- Learning disability
- LGBTQIA+
- Mental health challenges
- Neurodivergent
- Physical disability/long-term limiting illness/sensory impairment
- Survivors
- Substance misuse issue
- Working class background
- You can submit ONE piece of writing, up to and not exceeding:
- Poetry: 50 lines
- Fiction: 2,000 words
- Creative Non-Fiction: 2,000 words
- Titles and epigraphs do not count towards the total word count.
- There is no minimum word count.
- Entries must not have been published previously in magazines, anthologies, or online where there is an external selection process.
- This does not include academic, technical, cookbooks, or children's books or similar.
- Submissions cannot be altered after entry.
- Your work must not have been created using AI software (e.g. ChatGPT), unless this is done in a transformative or artistic way and this is clearly indicated.
- Copyright remains with the author, though by submitting you agree to allow us to publish winning work in the anthology and e-book.
- Employees of Creative Future or our project partners, and past winners, are ineligible to enter.
- All entrants will be notified by 30 September.
About Creative Future:
Creative Future is an arts organisation and charity specialising in supporting creative people, underrepresented artists, and communities facing barriers and inequality in terms of opportunity. Founded in 2007, it is a bridge between the margins and the mainstream and a catalyst for individual change. It creates and drives equitable access to the arts and influences sustainable and positive change in the sector.
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