Expand your writers' toolkit
Unleash your creativity and raise your writing game. Learn new storytelling skills from renowned authors and think about your craft in a entirely fresh and inspiring way.
Creative Writing for Beginners
Anna Davis helps you tap into your imagination and personal experience, explore your Writer’s World and start writing with confidence. 4 weeks.
Writing Short Stories
Hone your storytelling skills and write and edit a complete short story with BBC National Short Story Award winner Cynan Jones. 6 weeks.
Writing Poetry
Find your style of poetry, develop your craft and experiment with different poetic forms, with Ondaatje-prize-winninng poet Anthony Anaxagorou. 6 weeks.
30-Day Writing Bootcamps
Join our founder Anna Davis for 30 days of writing, with online lessons, tasks and tips to help you find focus and get to your desk every day. Just £35.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Starting to Write Your Novel
Develop your idea, plot and plan your novel, and write a confident opening, with CBC's founder, Anna Davis. 6 weeks.
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.
Edit & Pitch Your Novel
Great novels are made in the rewrite. Get the best out of your novel and learn how to confidently pitch your novel with advice from Anna Davis and the Curtis Brown literary agents. 6 weeks.
Gift Vouchers
Looking for the perfect gift for the writer in your life? Purchase one of our course gift vouchers, and help your loved one unleash their imagination and achieve their writing goals. From £40.