Your Novel: What Next?
Thank you for entering Discoveries 2025! Our expert readers – representatives from across the publishing industry – have started reading your entries and are already captivated by the exciting ideas submitted. The longlist of 16 writers, decided by our brilliant panel of judges, will be announced in early May. In the meantime, we're delighted to invite all entrants to attend our free Your Novel: What Next? webinar on Tuesday 25 March, 7.00pm-8.30pm.
Sign up nowDiscoveries is not just about the prize it's a development programme full of free support and practical guidance to help aspiring authors. Whether or not you make it to the longlist stage of Discoveries 2025 we want to help you put your best foot forward as you continue your writing journey!
Now that you've written at least 10,000 words of you novel and you have a working draft of a synopsis, you might be wondering 'What next?'...
Join us for this free Your Novel: What Next? webinar on Tuesday 25 March, 7.00pm-8.30pm to learn about the ins and outs of submitting to literary agents and working with publishers, as well as advice on how to keep up the writing momentum you’ve established.
This online event will be chaired by Lyndsey Ng Courses Manager at Curtis Brown Creative, she will be joined by expert speakers from the Discoveries 2025 judging panel: Claire Kohda (author of Woman, Eating), Chloe Timms (author of The Seawomen) and Curtis Brown literary agent Jess Molloy. They'll discuss the ins and outs of submitting to literary agents and working with publishers, as well as advice on how to keep up the writing momentum you’ve established.
Event speakers
We're inviting webinar attendees to submit one question to the speakers ahead of time. We'll curate the most frequently asked and interesting questions to put forward to the panel.
We’ll have capacity for 1,000 attendees on the night. If you miss out on a spot for the live webinar, don’t worry! You can still watch it, as we’ll be sharing a private link to a subtitled recording of the webinar hosted on our YouTube channel (Curtis Brown Creative) for everyone who registers. This will be available to all Discoveries 2025 entrants for a limited time after the event.
Please email discoveriesprize@curtisbrown.co.uk with any queries concerning the webinar.