Breakthrough scholarships
We regularly offer funded places on our courses to talented writers facing barriers to entry.
Breakthrough Novel-Writing Scholarship For Writers of Colour
This scholarship will award one talented writer of colour with limited financial means a place on our three-month Writing Your Novel course, with flexible online teaching.
Breakthrough Scholarship for Crime & Thriller Writers of Colour
This scholarship will award one talented writer of colour with limited financial means a place on our Writing Crime & Thrillers – Advanced course.
Breakthrough Scholarship for Memoir Writers with Low Income
This scholarship will award one talented writer with limited financial means a place on our Writing Memoir & Narrative Non-Fiction course.
Breakthrough Scholarship for Short Story Writers with Low Income
This short story scholarship will award one talented writer with limited financial means a place on our new Writing Short Stories – Advanced course.
HW Fisher Novel-Writing Scholarship for Writers with Low Income
This scholarship, sponsored by HW Fisher, will award one talented writer of limited financial means a place on our London-based Writing Your Novel – Three Months course.
About HW Fisher
We're extremely grateful to our longstanding scholarship sponsors HW Fisher. They have been sponsoring scholarship places to enable under-represented writers to join our courses since 2016.
Breakthrough Class of 2024
In 2024 we supported 20 talented, under-represented writers via our Breakthrough Writers' Programme – funded by Curtis Brown, HW Fisher and individual author-sponsors.
About Breakthrough
Our central programme of scholarships is funded by the Curtis Brown Group and Curtis Brown’s literary agents.
We’re also proud to work with valued partners to support talented writers. Scholarship sponsors have ranged from corporate sponsors to well-known authors – to former students of our courses who want to gift someone else the experience they themselves benefited from.
If you are interested in partnering with us to provide a scholarship or want to know more about the work we’re doing through the Breakthrough Writers’ Programme, please get in touch help@curtisbrowncreative.co.uk.
The scholarships currently open for applications are listed above. Click through to the individual pages to check the eligibility criteria. Further opportunities will open across the year. Join our mailing list to receive early information about them.