Karen's blog: Curtis Brown Creative newsletter

Thursday 6 January 2022

With tips on how to start your writing year right, here is the latest newsletter:

Take your writing to the next level this year
We've got advice to help you get writing and #CBCNewYear prompts designed to kick-start your creativity and energise you for the year ahead

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Share your 2022 writing goal and you could win a free course place
Join us on Twitter @cbcreative today for a special New Year edition of #WriteCBC. We're asking you to share your 2022 writing goals. Join in the fun by letting us know what you're hoping to achieve and you could win a creative writing course place (worth £210). Enter by 10am, Fri 7 Jan (UK time).

'I’m looking for stories with big heart and emotionally accessible characters...'
We caught up with Curtis Brown’s Jess Molloy – also one of the team working behind the scenes on Discoveries, a pioneering writing development programme for unpublished women writers – to find out what it’s like working at a literary agency, what she enjoys reading and her advice for writers submitting to Discoveries 2022.

New course alert: Finish Your Novel – Eight Months
Get all the way to the end of that tricky first draft on this advanced online course, with help and advice from three expert author-tutors (Laura Barnett, Lizzie Enfield and Jacob Ross) and a supportive peer group. This course includes live Zoom teaching, workshops and tutorials, and is the perfect next step for writers looking for extra guidance and motivation to finish their manuscript this year. Apply by 13 Feb.

Our current courses

Short Story Writing – Five-Day Intensive

Unlock the potential of your story. Join daily live teaching sessions with award-winning author Cynan Jones and an exclusive Q&A with Curtis Brown's Caitlin Leydon and publisher Mark Richards.

Apply by 9 Jan

How to Write Your Novel

Make serious progress on your novel this year! Join us for one of our popular six-week online courses: Starting to Write Your Novel, Write to the End of Your Novel or Edit & Pitch Your Novel.

Enrol by 18 Jan

Get £20 off selected courses this January

We're running a special New Year discount to help you put pen to paper in 2022. You can get £20 off selected short online courses when you use code NEWYEAR20. Offer ends midnight, 31 Jan 2022.*

Redeem offer

*This code is valid for £20 off the full price of our four-, six- and ten-week online courses. Offer excludes new courses running of the first time in January or February 2022. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Offer ends midnight, 31 Jan 2022.