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Discoveries

From top left: Muti'ah Badruddeen, Sophie Black, Ciara Corrigan, Shaiyra Devi, Jac Felipez, Anwen Kya Hayward, Maria Jackson, Reema Kausar Majid, Harriet Matthews, Beena Nadeem, Nosa Novia, Anna Kitty O'Connor, Rosie Rowell, Suman Sandhu, Gabrielle Sidlauskaite and Lauren Van Schaik

Announcing the Discoveries Prize longlist 2025

Curtis Brown Creative and the Curtis Brown literary agency are proud to partner with the Women’s Prize Trust and Audible to run Discoveries for a fifth year.

Reading a novel

5th Dec 2024

How to write a captivating opening line

Literary Agent Advice

Chloe Timms, author and Discoveries 2025 judge

5th Nov 2024

Chloe Timms: 'Leave your fear at the door'

Author Interviews

Claire Kohda, author and Discoveries 2025 judge

30th Oct 2024

Claire Kohda: 'I think good fiction always has something true about it, no matter the genre and setting'

Author Interviews

24th Oct 2024

How to prepare your entry to Discoveries 2025

Dreda Say Mitchell, award-winning author and Discoveries 2025 judge

26th Sep 2024

Dreda Say Mitchell: ‘All the things I thought might be a disadvantage made me unique . . . No one writes like YOU’

Author Interviews

Discoveries 2024 winner Niamh Connolly and Discoveries Scholar Zeynep Kazmaz

23rd May 2024

Announcing the Discoveries Prize winner 2024

Discoveries 2024 shortlisted writers, from top left: Niamh Connolly, Alison Dudeney, Alice Fletcher, Zeynep Kazmaz, Georgia Moorhouse and Nalisha Vansia

2nd May 2024

Announcing the Discoveries Prize shortlist 2024

Author Interviews

16 writers longlisted for Discoveries 2024, from top left: Dunni Abisayo, Niamh Connolly, Catherine DeFreitas, Alison Dudeney, Alice Fletcher, Sophie Hampton, Rachel Ifans, Khadija Isak, Zeynep Kazmaz, Georgia Moorhouse, Lauren Mulvihill, Caithlin Ng, KJ Pearce, Nalisha Vansia, Sophie Wing and Jess Worsdale

18th Apr 2024

Announcing the Discoveries Prize longlist 2024

From left: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Paige Cowan-Hall, Anna Davis, Ciara Finan and Kate Mosse

7th Dec 2023

Your Novel: How to Get Started

Author Interviews

Literary Agent Advice

Jess Molloy, Literary Agent and Discoveries 2024 Judge

29th Nov 2023

Jess Molloy: 'Be confident in your submission and don’t be afraid to show us something of yourself'

Literary Agent Advice