#WriteCBC – how to join in our monthly writing competition
BY Anna Davis
29th Jun 2018
Curtis Brown Creative runs a monthly writing competition on Bluesky (in the past this competition was hosted on X/Twitter) – it happens on the first Thursday of every month, join in and potentially win a free place on one of our six-week online writing courses. Here's how to play ...
On the first Thursday of every month we post one writing tip and one writing task on Bluesky and in our CBC blog. The tip is a delicate pearl of wisdom to help you in your novel-writing. The task requires you to do a nifty bit of writing in under 300 characters. (#WriteCBC takes a summer break for the month of August. In December #WriteCBC transforms into a longer festive competition.)
Each month the tip and task come from a special guest – this could be one of our creative writing tutors, a literary agent from Curtis Brown or C&W, a publisher, or one of our published alumni.
The tip and task are posted at 11 am (UK time) – and are also posted in our blog, where you can get some extra writing advice to help you with the task.
To take part – just have a go at the day's task, and post the results up on Bluesky – tagging @cbcreative.bsky.social, and including the hashtag #WriteCBC
The competition closes at 10 am (UK time) the next morning – Friday. We choose a winner and two runners-up, and tweet and post the results in our blog at 11 am (UK time).
The winner gets a free place on one of our four- week or six-week online creative writing courses (worth up to £230). The two runners-up get a £50 discount off the price of one of our short online courses. (See below).
Easy? Well, let's just see . . .
A few rules
- Only one entry per person per month, please.
- Over-18s only.
- This competition is just on Bluesky – there isn't another way of taking part.
- Winners and discount winners can redeem their free place/£50 voucher for use on any of the short online courses listed on this page. Prizes are not eligible for use on courses that are not found on that web page.
- If you're in receipt of more than one discount offer, you can only trade in one per course enrolment.
- Discounts and free place valid only on courses running in the 12-month period after the prize is received.
- Winners and runners-up cannot exchange their prize for cash.
- If a winner has already paid and enrolled on one of the applicable courses (yet to run), we will refund the £230 fee/£50 discount (as relevant).
- If a winner or runner-up has already taken all relevant courses, they may gift their discount or full fee (as relevant) to another writer.
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