Day Mattar will be our Liverpool 2023 Regional Writer In Residence. Day ran two workshops exclusively for GYRO, Liverpool’s LGTBQ+ youth support agency, which they had greatly benefited from as a young person. Across the summer, Day will be in residence and facilitating workshops at FACT gallery–look out for them (wearing a yellow cape!) on […]

Lisette Auton will be Darlington’s Writer In Residence in July 2023. She’ll undertake a roving residency across town, with a pack of writing prompts for anyone who wants to have a go, or just chat about what a writer does and about Darlington. Lisette will explore ideas about what makes a place your home. Sometimes […]

What’s the theme for the 2023 Writers’ Award? Every year since the Awards began, we’ve put forward a theme for the competition—these have included Home, Chemistry, Tomorrow, How It Started and Essential. (You can see how past winners have responded to them in our Award anthologies.) As 2023 is the tenth Awards, we’ve selected the […]

For the tenth Creative Future Writers’ Award, we’re very excited to add a new genre—creative non-fiction. So what is creative non-fiction? Also known as narrative non-fiction, it generally means describing or telling a true story, events or experiences—and doing so creatively in a narrative way, or through literary or even poetic description. It usually recounts […]

Creative Future is thrilled to announce we have been awarded funding as a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) for 2023-26 from Arts Council England. Our organisation was founded in 2007, established by two creatives with lived experience of some of the barriers the artists we work with face. Our mission from day one has always been […]

We are delighted to announce the artists selected for FLOURISH 2 – our second programme of Arts for Health & Wellbeing training. The creative practitioners below have been successful in securing a place on this free programme. We had over 40 applications from local artists; the standard was incredibly high and the selection process was […]

How Moth the Night Is was created for Third Thursdays, an arts, music, and culture programme that aims to make the centre of Brighton the place to be, with events, performances, film projections, and new artwork commissions.

On Thursday 21 April a programme of film screenings, projections and live music will take place on North Street, East Street, North Laine and The Lanes between 7 pm and 10 pm. With music by musicians from Brighton & Hove and films by artists and filmmakers from across the globe.

My residency at Creative Future was my first. I was very excited and had big plans in how I could include nature, artistic practice and experimentation, and possibly a digital soundscape which I had successfully produced for another project. I particularly wanted to work with people from a variety of backgrounds, writing abilities, and wellbeing, […]

A surge in entries for this year’s Creative Future Writers’ Award has underscored how many writers see class as an obstacle to participation in the industry. Founded in 2013, the Creative Future Writers’ Award (CFWA) is a national writing development programme which celebrates talented, under-represented writers who lack opportunities due to mental health issues, disability, […]