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We make the arts more diverse. We work nationally with underrepresented creatives & specialise in working with writers through our Writers' Award. #CFWA

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My debut poetry collection, Divinations on Survival, can now be pre-ordered! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

See below for more info. If you'd like to book me for a reading / talk / workshop next year, drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com

#PoetryNews #UKPoetry
The cover of Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston against a starry mountain background. Natalie Linh Bolderston's debut collection traces her matrilineal heritage across continents and centuries, interweaving her voice with those of her mother and grandmother. The poems move between 1930s China, 1970s Vietnam and an ancient landscape populated by mother's, daughters and deities from Vietnamese and Chinese myth. Divinations on Survival asks what it means to share a lineage in the shadow of war, and traces the complex legacies of survival that emerge as a result of conflict. Always returning to the question of how intimate, familial ties are warped and undone by political turmoil, violence and displacement, the collection distils and expands on stories passed down from grandmother to mother, to daughter, and casts women not as victims, but as powerful protectors, healers and survivors. Formally innovative and supple, these poems disrupt and unsettle meaning, confronting the colonising force of language to work towards a radical new poetics. Divinations on Survival comes out in spring 2026 and can be pre-ordered now. If you would like to book me for a reading, talk or workshop, please feel free to drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize. Her poem 'Middle Name with Diacritics' came third in the 2019 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. In 2024, she was Creative Future’s writer-in-residence for Stoke-on-Trent, her hometown. Her pamphlet, The Protection of Ghosts, was published by V. Press in 2019.
October 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Join Creative Future Writers' Award 2024 winner, Maya Little for a 4-part online workshop series 'Writing About Work' ✍️⁠
📅 Mondays, 6 - 27 October
⏰️ 6-8pm
🎟️ £50 / £25 concessions
@creativefutureuk.bsky.social workshops are for all underrepresented writers
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September 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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And a huge thank you to our partners and prizegivers who make the Creative Future Writers' Award possible!⁠
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See the announcement of our Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 winners: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...
September 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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A huge thank you to our brilliant judges for the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025!⁠
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See the announcement of our Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 winners: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...
September 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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A huge congratulations to all of the 2025
@creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers' Award winners! 🎉
creativefutureuk.bsky.social Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · Sep 16
Congratulations to all our Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 winners!

Read the full announcement: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...
September 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
creativefutureuk.bsky.social
Congratulations to all our Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 winners!

Read the full announcement: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...
September 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Congratulations to the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 poetry winners:
#WritingCommunity #Writer #UnderrepresentedWriters #Writing #AmWriting #WritingCompetition #CFWA #poetry #creativenonfiction #fiction #LoveWriting #WritersNetwork #WritingLife #DiverseVoices
September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Congratulations to the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 fiction winners:
#WritingCommunity #Writer #UnderrepresentedWriters #Writing #AmWriting #WritingCompetition #CFWA #poetry #creativenonfiction #fiction #LoveWriting #WritersNetwork #WritingLife #DiverseVoices
September 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Congratulations to the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 creative non-fiction winners:
#WritingCommunity #Writer #UnderrepresentedWriters #Writing #AmWriting #WritingCompetition #CFWA #poetry #creativenonfiction #fiction #LoveWriting #WritersNetwork #WritingLife #DiverseVoices
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Announcing the winners of our 2025 Writers' Award competition for #UnderrepresentedWriters. We received 1,600+ entries from across the UK. THANK YOU, every one of you, for allowing us to read your work. Today, we share our winners: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/2025-wr...
#CFWA #DiverseVoices
September 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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📣 We're excited to launch a new service offering individual feedback on your writing. Delivered by experienced and published underrepresented writers.⁠
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We can offer appraisals on poetry, and fiction or creative non-fiction short stories/novel excerpts.

www.creativefuture.org.uk/one-to-one-f...
One-To-One Feedback - Creative Future
We’re pleased to offer one-to-one personalised feedback on your work, delivered by experienced and published underrepresented writers, for those at any stage. See the full list of our feedback readers...
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July 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Applications to our 2025 Writers' Award are now CLOSED!⁠
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Good luck to all those who submitted 😊 We can't wait to read your work!⁠
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Please be patient whilst we read all of entries submitted.
All entrants will be contacted and the winners announced by mid-September.
May 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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📣⁠ There's just 5 DAYS left to enter the Creative Future Writers' Award competition!

Don't let anything stop you from believing in yourself and submitting your work before 11.59pm on 18 May!⁠

Enter now: bit.ly/CFWA2025⁠#WritingCommunityt#Writere#Writingn#AmWritingn#WritingCompetitiono#CFWAWA
May 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Teaching a writing workshop tonight for @creativefutureuk.bsky.social on Character. I love this quote from Woolf’s essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown: ‘we go down into them as we descend into some enormous cavern. Lights swing about; we hear the boom of the sea; it is all dark, terrible and uncharted.’
May 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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writershq.bsky.social Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · May 6
The world needs your stories (and poems. And non-fic. And your weird-ass experimental word cloud story about werewolves at a spreadsheet convention). Here's our top five subs and comp opportunities for May.

Full details here writershq.co.uk/5-competitio...

Oh, and let us know if you've subbed!
May 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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The deadline for the @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is just around the corner - 18 May! ✍️⁠

It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Wild'.

⁠Find out more and enter: bit.ly/CFWA2025
May 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Looking forward to kicking off this creative writing workshop course with @creativefutureuk.bsky.social tonight: www.creativefuture.org.uk/workshop/wri...
Writing Prose (Online) - Creative Future
Learn how to write powerful and compelling prose, focussed on plot, character, dialogue and editing.
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April 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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The deadline for our 2025 Writers' Award Competition is just a month away!
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It's completely FREE to enter and 15 winners will receive £20k worth of prizes 🌟⁠
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The competition is open to poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction under the theme 'Wild'.
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Enter now: bit.ly/CFWA2025⁠#Writere#Writingng
April 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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One month left to enter the @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers Award for UK-based writers from underrepresented backgrounds.

Deadline: Sunday 18 May at 11:59pm
Prompt: ‘wild’

#Poetry: 50 lines
Fiction: 2,000 words
Creative Non-Fiction: 2,000 words
creativefutureuk.bsky.social Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · Jan 29
Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for Underrepresented Writers is officially open! ✍️⁠

It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟⁠

The theme this year is 'Wild'.
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Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V
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#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #diversevoices
Artwork for the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 with the title theme 'Wild'. Deadline for entry 18 May 2025.
April 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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📝 @creativefutureuk.bsky.social are holding workshops in Stourbrigde as part of this year’s Writers In Residence programme, join Sallyanne Rock for a 2-part creative writing workshop inspired by watching glassmakers at work and spending time with the stunning exhibitions.

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Making Language - workshop 1 (Stourbridge) - Creative Future
Join Sallyanne Rock for a 2-part creative writing workshop inspired by watching glassmakers at work and spending time with the stunning exhibitions.
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April 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Want to put pen to paper this April? Take a look at our upcoming events for the month, including a £5 masterclass on submitting to #literary competitions with @creativefutureuk.bsky.social

Find out more: www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...
April 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Still not sure whether you want to enter the 2025 Creative Future Writers' Award competiton? Sophia Khan shares how it could be just what your writing career needs!⁠
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Find out more about the award, including how to enter for FREE: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/our-ann...

#WritingCommunity
Quote from 2024 Creative Future Writers' Award Silver Fiction winner, Sophia Khan: “The award itself is so generous with the access it gave me to the industry as well as the resources and tools to further improve my writing. I felt part of a writing community straight away and the ongoing development really nurtured my identity as a writer. Since then, I have gained a place on the London Writers Awards Development Programme. I know that this would not have happened were it not for all the opportunities that Creative Future gave me, including the confidence to pursue writing and take it more seriously.”
April 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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A massive thank you to everyone who donated and helped spread the word. Your genoristy has raised £2,372! 🎉⁠
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This will help to keep the Creative Future Writers' Awards free to enter for ALL underrepresented writers❤️⁠
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Want to enter? Find out more: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/our-ann...
March 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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From 18-25 March, #BigGive is doubling every donation made to Creative Future! 📣

The Writers’ Award is the only free to enter national writing competition for ALL underrepresented writers. Your donation will help keep it free!

Donate: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

#ArtsForImpact
March 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is officially open! ✍️⁠

It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Wild'.

⁠Find out more, including how to enter: https://buff.ly/3WVEUGo

#WritingCommunity
February 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM