From Our Students Posts

The Breakthrough Writers’ Programme is an initiative offering free courses, mentoring and scholarships for under-represented writers. It is fully funded by CBC, the Curtis Brown literary agency and partners. We caught up with some of the talented writers currently taking part in our nine-month Breakthrough Mentoring Programme to find out more about what they’re working […]

Gillian Perdue started her journey with us on our Writing YA & Children’s Fiction course in 2016. Gillian has also taken our alumni Summer School and several of our short online courses including Edit & Pitch Your Novel and Writing a Psychological Thriller. We caught up with Gillian to talk about her debut crime novel […]

Emily Randall was a student on our three-month online Writing YA & Children’s Fiction course in 2019. She went on to win the Mslexia Children’s & Young Adult Novel Competition and the 2021 Times/Chicken House Award (which includes a publishing deal with Chicken House) for her children’s book The Flood Child. Read on to find out […]

We’re pleased to announce that Sashawne Smith has been awarded the HW Fisher Novel-Writing Scholarship for Writers with Low Income for her novel-in-progress The Grosvenor Estate Pseudocides. Sashawne has won a fully funded place on our three-month Writing Your Novel course in London, with some teaching on Zoom. The CBC team were captivated by Sashawne’s […]

Natasha Hastings took our three-month Writing Your Novel course in 2018, now she has an exciting book deal for her middle grade series The Miraculous Sweetmakers with HarperCollins Children’s. The first book in the series The Frost Fair will be published next October. Read on to hear about Natasha’s time studying with us, her approach to […]

Welcome to our November edition of #WriteCBC. I hope you’re ready to be inspired by our latest writing challenge! If you haven’t taken part in a #WriteCBC competition before, we’re excited to welcome you to our writing community – and you can quickly get up to speed by reading this blog with information about how to […]

Sarah Jost was a student on our three-month Writing Your Novel course in 2019, now she has deal for her debut love story One Last Chance, which is to be published by Piatkus and Sourcebooks next year. Read on to find out all about Sarah’s time studying with us, her approach to writing as a […]

Tasha Harrison studied on our Writing YA & Children’s Fiction course in 2016. Now she has an exciting book deal with UCLan for her debut middle grade book Clementine Florentine, to be published January 2022. Read on to hear all about Tasha’s time studying with us and her approach to writing appealing fiction for younger […]

Ally Wilkes was a student on our six-month Writing Your Novel course in 2017. We’re thrilled to count her in the growing number of over 140 students that have gone on to get major book deals. Her debut historical horror novel All the White Spaces will be published by Titan Books in the UK and […]

Edit Spaudo is a young writer who was sponsored by CHEERIO – an eclectic new publishing imprint and media company launched in partnership with The Estate of Francis Bacon – to study on our online Writing a Memoir course earlier this year. She is currently writing a memoir about her life and what happened to […]