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.
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.
Breakthrough Class of 2023
We proudly supported 21 under-represented writers with our Breakthrough Writers' Programme in 2023. Find out more about their works-in-progress and what Breakthrough means to them.
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.
Winning a scholarship has been game changing for my writing career. My tutor Charlotte Mendelson was not only a fantastic teacher but also instilled in me the confidence to tell this story... This was my second time applying for the scholarship and I would not have been able to take the course without it. I highly recommend other writers seeking community, support, and structure to apply.
2023 HW Fisher Novel-Writing Scholarship winner
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.