Helen & Chloe Win Creative Futures Awards

Squad grad Helen Bowell and current Squad member Chloe Elliot have won Creative Futures Writers Awards for poets, Chloe carrying off the Gold award, Helen the Bronze.

The prizes include cash, free reads from The Literary Consultancy, courses with Curtis Brown or The Poetry School, mentoring and publication in an anthology, as well as a reading at the London Literature Festival..

Creative Futures “are a bridge from the margins to the mainstream and a catalyst for individual change, empowering artists to use their creative talent to change their lives.” They “give a platform for artists who face significant barriers to accessing the arts.”