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Creative Future Writers’ Award Call Out

The Creative Future Writers’ Award is the only free to enter national competition for all underrepresented writers: those who face barriers due to mental health challenges, physical or learning disability, neurodiversity, survivors, and those from LGBTQIA+, working class and/or Black, Asian and global majority backgrounds.

The theme for this year’s award’s is ‘Reveal’. The theme is a creative prompt, not a requirement, they’re looking for quality writing first and foremost. The competition is open for poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction.

This year they’ve expanded to fifteen winners (5 winners in each category) who will share:

– £23,000 worth of cash and development prizes
– be published in our anthology and eBook
– read at our showcase, part of the London Literature Festival 2024
– ongoing development support from Creative Future

Deadline: Sunday 19 May 2024, 11.59pm to submit your poetry

(up to 50 lines), fiction or creative non-fiction pieces (up to 2000 words).

For more information and to enter go to: bit.ly/CFWA2024