Future Worlds Prize

Mahmud El Sayed is a British-Egyptian SFF writer and translator who lives in East London. His stories explore Arabic and Islamic-inspired themes in a genre he is calling Arabfuturism. He won Future Worlds Prize 2023.

Ese Erheriene is an emerging writer of fiction and poetry. From London, she has lived in France, Norway, and across Asia. As a journalist, she wrote for The Wall Street Journal — in London and Hong Kong — for almost six years, before moving to Portugal for a year to write about identity, [dis]connection and culture. That experience became her short story ‘The Knowledge’, published in the Goldfish Anthology (2023). Her writing has been published in ‘The Himalayan Journal’ (2025), longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Fund Award (2023) and she is a winner of the Future Worlds Prize (2024), as well as a former participant of the Mountain Writers Intensive residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Her poetry, commissioned by the Montcalm Collection, is on display in three of its London hotels.

Amber is game developer and writer living in the UK. She has a master’s degree in creative writing, and recently was the runner up for the 2025 Future Worlds Prize. When she’s not reading, writing about terrible sapphic women, or chasing her grandparent’s mischievous dog out of a nearby building site, she can be found running slowly, surprising friends with strange baked goods and taking game-nights way too seriously.