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Celebrate Halloween with our scary prompts! 🎃

We challenge you to create a 200 word piece of flash fiction, an illustration, or a piece of music. Join one of our themed Discords to share your work with our creative community!
A grey sky with tree branches. Spiders hang from them, a crow perches, and a few bats are out flying. A tattered scarecrow with a pumpkin for a head sits in grass at the bottom of the image, smiling, with two gravestones either side. Large back letters read: ‘THE PORTRAITS OF FORT AMHERST’. Beneath this, in smaller letters, it reads: ‘During restoration works, an artist is commissioned to paint portraits of volunteers at Fort Amherst. When the paintings are unveiled, each sitter’s reflection in the frame is slightly… wrong - older, thinner, wearing uniforms from centuries past. And one painting starts whispering in the tunnels.’
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Count down to Halloween with our scary prompts! 🎃

We challenge you to create a 200 word piece of flash fiction, an illustration, or a piece of music. Join one of our themed Discords to share your work with our creative community!
Glowing white writing on a dark grey background. In large, dripping letters, it reads: ‘THE CHATHAM DOCkYARD WATCHMAN’. In smaller letters below, it reads: ‘When the Dockyard closed, a few old security guards stayed on to keep watch over the empty sheds. One night, one of them radios in, saying he’s seen the ghost fleet returning - ships docking silently, their crews pale and dripping wet. Then the signal cuts out.’
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Count down to Halloween with our scary prompts! 🎃

We challenge you to create a 200 word piece of flash fiction, an illustration, or a piece of music. Join one of our themed Discords to share your work with our creative community!
An image formed of dark and light grey shapes, blurred like paint scraped vertically. The effect is like a scene viewed through a foggy window. In the centre are the words: ‘The Last Bus from the Pentagon. The 101 night bus from the Pentagon Centre used to run until midnight - now it only appears when it’s foggy. Passengers say the driver never speaks, the ticket machine works without power, and those who ride all the way to the terminus at Capstone Valley are never seen again.’
October 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Count down to Halloween with our scary prompts! 🎃

We challenge you to create a 200 word piece of flash fiction, an illustration, or a piece of music. Join one of our themed Discords to share your work with our creative community!
Cobwebs spiral around the edges of a dark grey square, forming a circular frame. A lone spider hangs to the left. In the centre sit the words: ‘THE BELLS’ in large capital letters, like a newspaper article. Below this, it reads, in smaller letters, ‘BENEATH THE RIVER’. Below this, also in smaller letters, it reads: ‘Every year at low tide, when the Medway mudflats glisten like oil, the faint tolling of church bells echoes from beneath the river. Locals say it’s the old church of St Mary’s, lost to the floods centuries ago - but this year, the bells are louder… and someone’s name is being rung.’
October 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Looking for inspiration? Try our new creative prompt! ✨

We challenge you to create a 200 word piece of flash fiction, an illustration, or a piece of music. Join one of our themed Discords to share your work with our creative community!
A golden brown honeycomb pattern with a bright orange trim, overlaid with the words: ‘“Festival of Forgotten Things” - A gathering in Gillingham where lost items - and stories - return.’, and the B Cre8ive logo.
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Introducing another of our talented team members: our artist, Jess Kirby! 🎨
An anime style drawing of Jess, winking and smiling at the viewer. She wears a light blue t-shirt and denim jeans, and a black belt with a gold buckle. Two yellow exclamation marks float beside her to emphasise her expression. Her hair is brown with green highlights, and the background holds similar shades of green. This image has an orange border, and around it is a golden brown honeycomb pattern with another orange trim. The B Cre8ive logo sits in the bottom left hand corner.
October 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Looking for inspiration? Try our new creative prompt ✨
A golden brown honeycomb pattern with a bright orange trim, overlaid with the words: ‘“The Last Ferry from St Mary’s Island” - A tale of escape, departure, or transformation’, and the B Cre8ive logo.
September 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Introducing another of our brilliant team members: our talented musician, Darren Currington! 🎶
A headshot of Darren, who wears glasses, and a black jacket over a white t-shirt. Darren has short brown hair. This photograph has an orange border, and around it is a golden brown honeycomb pattern with another orange trim. The B Cre8ive logo sits in the bottom left hand corner.
September 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Introducing two more of our talented team members: our wonderful writers, Wordsmithery! 📚

Sam and Barry Fentiman Hall run Wordsmithery, a Medway-based literary organisation that has been making word-based projects in the area since 2010.
Sam and Barry stand in front of a brick structure, with two metal archways. A shopping centre and trees sit behind this. Sam wears pink coat and a black scarf, and Barry wears a black coat and hat. The photograph has a bright orange border, and around this is a golden brown honeycomb pattern with another bright orange trim. The B Cre8ive logo sits in the bottom left hand corner.
September 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Looking for inspiration? ✨

We challenge you to create a 200 word piece of flash fiction, an illustration, or a piece of music. Join one of our themed Discords to share your work with our creative community!

If you have your own prompt idea, please share it in the comments!
A golden brown honeycomb pattern with a bright orange trim, overlaid with the words: ‘“The Medway Mermaids Return” - Once every 100 years, they appear to choose one person’, and the B Cre8ive logo.
August 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Meet our team!

Introducing another of our talented team members ✨

Our writer, Charlie Wilson, is a professional book editor, ghostwriter and writing coach.
A headshot of Charlie, smiling. She wears a blue cardigan over a black t-shirt, and a silver necklace with a pendant. The photograph has an orange border, and around this is a golden brown honeycomb pattern with another orange trim. The B Cre8ive logo sits in the bottom corner.
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Looking for inspiration? ✨

We challenge you to create a 200 word piece of flash fiction, an illustration, or a piece of music. Join one of our themed Discords to share your work with our creative community!

If you have your own prompt idea, please share it in the comments!
A golden brown honeycomb pattern with a bright orange trim, overlaid with the words: ‘“The Busker with the Silver Ukelele” - No one knows his name, but his music stirs memories’, and the B Cre8ive logo.
August 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Looking for inspiration? ✨

We challenge you to create a 200 word piece of flash fiction, an illustration, or a piece of music. Join one of our themed Discords to share your work with our creative community!

We had some wonderful responses to our previous prompt in our B Cre8ive Writers group.
A golden brown honeycomb pattern with a bright orange trim, overlaid with the words: ‘“Beneath the Arches of Rochester Bridge”. A secret world awakens each summer’, and the B Cre8ive logo.
July 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Meet our team!

First up, we have our amazing writer, David!

David Stokes has been CEO of The Halpern Charitable Foundation since March 2019, leading the charge in using the arts to combat mental health challenges and social isolation.
A black and white headshot of David, smiling at the camera. David wears a pair of rectangular glasses, and a jumper over a checked shirt. The photograph has a bright orange border, and around this is a golden brown honeycomb pattern with another bright orange trim, and the B Cre8ive logo sits in the bottom left hand corner.
July 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Looking for inspiration? ✨

We challenge you to create a 200 word piece of flash fiction, an illustration, or a piece of music. Join one of our themed Discords to share your work with our creative community!

A prompt will be posted each week!
A golden brown honeycomb pattern with a bright orange trim, overlaid with the words ‘“Carnival Ghosts - Something (or someone) lingers after the Chatham parade’, and the B Cre8ive logo.
July 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM