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Discoveries 2025

Curtis Brown Creative and the Curtis Brown literary agency are delighted to be partnering with the Women’s Prize Trust and Audible to run the fifth Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers currently residing in the UK or Ireland. The prize accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis.

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