Fahad Awarded the Arts Foundation Literature Fellowship

Fahad Al-Amoudi has been awarded the Arts Foundation Futures Awards Fellowship for Literature. Imtiaz Dharker, poet and jury of the Award, said of Fahad: “It is truly a privilege to award the Literature Fellowship to Fahad. He is an exceptionally assured and formidable young poet.” An incredible achievement!

The other recipients include Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu (theatre), William Marsey (music), Zein Majali (visual art), and Dorothy Allen-Pickard (film).

The five winning fellows received their prizes from the judges at an awards ceremony, featuring a welcome address from renowned poet and novelist Ben Okri and a live performance from Festival Voices, conducted by Gregory Batsleer, the Arts Foundation’s Choral Conductor Fellow of 2015.

The annual Arts Foundation Futures Awards support the UK’s most promising artists and creatives at a pivotal moment in their career, providing £115,000 in unconditional grant funding, awarding five transformative £20,000 fellowships, with all shortlisted artists receiving £1,000 towards the development of their practice.