13 years
of helping writers tell their stories
230
former students with major publishing deals
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Get the best out of your writing with Curtis Brown Creative – the only writing school run by a major literary agency. We have a range of courses designed to help you improve your writing skills, learn what literary agents are looking for and complete a draft of your manuscript.
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Multi-million-copy bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
Bestselling author of The Circus Train
Author of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted author of The Maiden
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Write to the End of Your Novel
You’ve started writing but it’s a long way to the end of the first draft. Anna Davis will get you there. 6 weeks.
Dialogue – The Deep Dive
Bestselling author Laura Barnett shows you how to supercharge your dialogue as a powerful means to bring story and characters to life. 4 weeks.
Plot & Story – The Deep Dive
Laura Barnett offers tried-and-tested methods of plotting your new writing projects and road-testing your stories. 4 weeks.
Showing & Telling – The Deep Dive
We all know the creative writing rule of ‘show don’t tell’ – but almost every great novel uses showing and telling to conjure its magic! Learn to use both with much-loved author Anna Freeman. 4 weeks.
Character Development – The Deep Dive
Create characters that will live on in your reader’s mind long after they’ve closed the book, with Anna Davis. 4 weeks.
Relationships in Fiction – The Deep Dive
Bestselling author Laura Barnett will help you write convincingly about love, loss and connection – and create relationships in your stories that provide a key source of conflict, tension and drama. 4 weeks.