Creative Future Writers’ Awards Showcase

Discover rising talent at the Creative Future Writers’ Award, a showcase of underrepresented writers hosted by Wayne Holloway-Smith and Nina Mingya Powles.

The Creative Future Writers’ Award is a development programme for talented writers from a wealth of backgrounds. It includes the UK’s only national writing competition for all underrepresented writers, alongside workshops online and across the UK.

This year’s competition invited entries from poets, short story and creative non-fiction writers on the theme of ‘Reveal.’ For the first time in the award’s eleven years, the number of prizewinners has been increased from twelve to fifteen.

At this event, the winning writers read their work alongside the hosts in a showcase of new and emerging voices.

The award-winning writers were selected by judges poet Wayne Holloway-Smith and poet/essayist Nina Mingya Powles, alongside prize givers Joey Connolly (Faber Academy), Tessa Foley (Poetry School), Jennifer Kerslake (Curtis Brown Creative), and Aki Schilz (The Literary Consultancy).

The winners receive £23,000 in cash and development prizes from leading literary partners, long-term support, and publication in an anthology which debuts at the showcase.

Presented in partnership with Creative Future