We regularly offer funded places on our courses to talented writers facing barriers to entry.
Curtis Brown Creative self-funds the central Breakthrough scholarship programme. We’re also proud to work with valued partners to support talented writers.
This scholarship will award one talented budding memoir or narrative non-fiction writer of colour a place on our online Writing Your Memoir – Three Months course, taught by award-winning author Claire Lynch.
In 2025 we supported 97 talented, under-represented writers via our Breakthrough Writers' Programme – funded by Curtis Brown, HW Fisher and individual author-sponsors.
We're extremely grateful to our longstanding scholarship sponsors HW Fisher. They have been sponsoring scholarship places to enable under-represented writers to join our courses since 2016.
Scholarship sponsors have ranged from corporate sponsors to well-known authors – to former students of our courses who want to gift someone else the experience they themselves benefited from.
If you’re interested in partnering with us to provide a scholarship or want to know more about the work we’re doing through the Breakthrough Writers’ Programme, please get in touch with us via help@curtisbrowncreative.co.uk.