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Step inside the Writing Studio, Curtis Brown Creative's affordable monthly membership for writers at every stage of the journey.

Exclusive access to writing resources, video masterclasses, live events, and a supportive community of writers.

Membership

The Writing Studio is perfect for those looking for continuous writing support and community without the bigger commitment of a course – or for those who have already taken courses with us and would like some ongoing CBC flavour in their writing lives. Attend live Zoom events, including Q&As with agents, authors and publishers. Take part in writing hours and pitch clinics with the CBC team. Reply to weekly messages, writing prompts and chats in our studio forum with Anna Davis and a supportive online community of writers. Access a library of practical resources – and more.

Join us in the Studio for inspiration, accountability and a chance to connect with trusted readers to help you keep writing with confidence, word by word, week by week and month by month.

Whether you're wrestling with a manuscript, searching for your voice, or need the discipline and camaraderie that keeps you writing – the Writing Studio is your creative sanctuary. Your story is waiting. Your community is ready.

‘Writing is a solitary endeavour until you have a writing community. Many writers don't get that community until they have an agent, editor and publisher. I love that CBC gives me my community on the way to those achievements. It makes a lonely job a lot more fun!’ – Current member of The Writing Studio

What’s included in your membership?

Weekly message & chat: Anna Davis kicks off the writing week each Monday morning with a thought-provoking message in the Writing Studio forum, offering tips and insights, plus her opinions on writing issues of the day. Every message invites a discussion from members, and Anna will be hopping back online on Tuesdays to read the replies posted and offer further comment. (In weeks when Anna is not available, the message and chat will come from other senior members of the CBC team).
Weekly prompt: A new writing prompt from Anna or a member of the CBC team will be delivered straight to your inbox on Monday mornings and posted in the studio forum to spark your ideas and get you straight down to your writing.
Community & work-sharing: Join our moderated members-only forum where writers share work, exchange feedback and find beta readers. Respond to the weekly prompts for critique or use our feedback exchange to swap chapters and manuscripts. Our supportive community operates on reciprocity – share your work, support others, and build lasting friendships with writers worldwide.
Weekly writing hours: Every Friday you’ll be invited to join a writing hour on Zoom hosted by a member of the CBC team – a chance to join other writers online for a moment in your day simply dedicated to getting words on a page. These hours will alternate between mornings and lunchtimes (UK time). Find accountability and get writing alongside your fellow members.
Monthly ‘In Conversations’: Join a one-hour Zoom session every month in which Anna Davis (or a senior CBC team member) will be in conversation with a published author, literary agent or publisher. These events are exclusively for studio members, and you’ll have a chance to get your questions answered live.
Regular pitching clinics: At regular times across the year 12 members will join a live one-hour Zoom to practise delivering their elevator pitches to two experienced members of the CBC team, who’ll give verbal feedback. Each clinic the 12 writers will be enrolled on a first come, first served basis (due to high demand, writers selected for pitch clinics will be able to sign up once every three months).
CBC event pass: You'll get free tickets to our stellar series of online events with guest authors, publishers and literary agents. Events are hosted once a month.
Library of content: Access our growing library of CBC recorded author events and publishing industry interviews – as well as professionally filmed video lessons and written resources covering topics such as finding inspiration, developing characters, constructing your plot and structure, editing and pitching.
2 free courses: You’ll gain free access to two of our video-based Deep Dive courses, on Dialogue and Relationships in Fiction, led by bestselling author and popular Writing Your Novel tutor Laura Barnett (now exclusive to members). You can work through these courses at your own pace .
10% off courses: Members get 10% off selected courses and early access to apply for select courses.
Choose your membership plan: You can pay monthly or yearly. Our upfront annual membership provides our best rate of £240 per year – while our pay-as-you-go monthly plan at £25 allows you to cancel and restart your membership at any time. While we’d love to see you every month, we understand that life happens.

Tutors

Meet the senior CBC courses team. They will host live events and forum discussions for members.

Anna Davis

Anna Davis is the founder and Director of the Curtis Brown Creative writing school. She is the author of five acclaimed novels which have been published in twenty languages. She has been a journalist and Guardian columnist, as well as a Curtis Brown literary agent. She taught creative writing at the University of Manchester and in many other settings before founding Curtis Brown Creative in 2011.

Jack Hadley

Jack Hadley has been part of the Curtis Brown Creative courses team for 10 years, helping run courses and mentoring programmes for writers at every stage of their journey. He has contributed to the production of over 30 online video-based writing courses. Jack has hosted hundreds of speaker sessions, masterclasses, and pitch events with authors including Kate Mosse and Kevin Barry; producers such as Liza Marshall and Julie Gardner; and leading publishers and agents including Felicity Blunt, Jonny Geller, Venetia Butterfield, and Charlotte Mursell.

Jennifer Kerslake

Jennifer is Head of Courses / Editor at Curtis Brown Creative. She was previously an editor at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, the literary imprint of the Orion Publishing Group. In her time there, she worked with authors including Costa-shortlisted Elisa Lodato, Stella Prize-winning Heather Rose, Leila Aboulela, Francesca Jakobi, Chloë Mayer, Shannon Leone Fowler and Haleh Agar. She is passionate about nurturing new voices and enjoys working closely with writers to get their work into the best possible shape to share with publishers.

Event speakers

Meet the guest speakers that will be part of live events for our Studio members in the coming months.

Lucy Rose

Lucy Rose is a Sunday Times bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker with an interest in gothic, girlhood, horror, and literary fiction. Her short fiction and nonfiction have been published in Dread Central, Mslexia, the Observer, The Nerd Daily and more. Lucy’s debut novel, The Lamb is published by W&N Books (UK) and Harper(US) and earned her a place on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list 2025, alongside the Nota Bene Prize 2026. In film, Lucy’s short films have led to three regional Royal Television Society Awards and have attended BAFTA-qualifying festivals – one receiving a nomination for the inaugural BFI Northern Filmmaker Award at Aesthetica Film Festival in 2018.

Cathy Rentzenbrink

Cathy Rentzenbrink is the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, A Manual for Heartache, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books, Everyone Is Still Alive and Write It All Down: How to put your life on the page. Cathy regularly chairs literary events, interviews authors, reviews books and runs creative writing workshops. In previous lives, Cathy worked for Waterstones for ten years, ran the literacy charity Quick Reads, and was Books Editor at The Bookseller.

Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley has published eight novels – including The Past, Late in the Day, and Free Love – and four collections of short stories – including Bad Dreams and After the Funeral. She publishes short stories regularly in the New Yorker, and reviews for the Guardian and the London Review of Books; she was awarded a Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize in 2016, and she is a two-time winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She lives in Cardiff. Photo by Sophie Davidson.

Sam Eades

Sam is an award-winning publisher, editor and publicist with twenty years’ experience working on commercial fiction bestsellers. Her specialist areas are: crime and thrillers, psychological thrillers, women's fiction, book club, horror and romance. She has worked at three of the big five UK publishing houses: PRH, Hachette UK and Macmillan. Most recently, she ran the Orion Fiction team, the largest imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, working with authors including MJ Arlidge, Sharon Bolton, Cathy Bramley, Harlan Coben, Lorraine Kelly, Kate Mosse, Michelle Paver and Sarah Pinborough. Sam is now a publisher at Simon & Schuster, heading up their new commercial fiction imprint Skylight.

Jenny Colgan

Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling novels and has won various awards for her writing, including the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance, the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award and the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award. Her books have sold more than fifteen million copies worldwide and have been published in thirty-six territories, and in 2015 she was inducted into the Love Stories Hall of Fame. Jenny is married with three children and lives in Scotland.

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£25.00/month

Access to members-only forum
Weekly prompts & live writing hours
Monthly Q&As
Regular pitching clinics
Free CBC events pass
Downloadable resources
Video library

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