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Start your story with expert teaching from acclaimed authors, leading literary agents and top publishers. Courses online and in London.
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Inspiring courses to suit your writing goals – from first idea to final draft. We run courses for budding novelists, children's authors, short story writers, poets, screenwriters and non-fiction writers.
Discoveries 2026
Curtis Brown Creative and the Curtis Brown literary agency are delighted to be partnering with the Women’s Prize Trust and Audible the Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers currently residing in the UK or Ireland. The prize, now in its sixth year, accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis.
Enter by 12 Jan 2026
Try a free online writing lesson
Get a taste of our online courses and how they are run! Sign up to receive a free creative writing lesson focused on how to start your novel or story with an intriguing opening scene. You'll get video advice, a task and free resource from our founder Anna Davis.
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Attend our New Writers' Day
Join us at Foyles Charing Cross on Saturday 4 October for an exciting day of pitching, learning, networking and panels for aspiring authors. We have 70 free tickets for under-represented writers available across the different events.
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