Breakthrough scholarships
We regularly offer funded places on our courses to talented writers facing barriers to entry.
We regularly offer funded places on our courses to talented writers facing barriers to entry.
This scholarship, sponsored by Jennie Godfrey, will award one talented writer with limited financial means a place on our three-month online Writing Your Novel course.
This scholarship, sponsored by Jack Meggitt-Phillips, will award one talented writer with limited financial means a place on our three-month Writing Your Novel course in London.
This scholarship, sponsored by HW Fisher, will award one talented writer of colour a free place on our flagship Writing Your Novel course with three months of teaching in London.
This scholarship will award one talented LGBTQIA+ writer a free place on our new nine-week Writing Horror Fiction course with Zoom teaching and professional feedback.
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.
Our central programme of scholarships is funded by the Curtis Brown Group and Curtis Brown’s literary agents.
We’re also proud to work with valued partners to support talented writers. 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 are 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 help@curtisbrowncreative.co.uk.
The scholarships currently open for applications are listed above. Click through to the individual pages to check the eligibility criteria. Further opportunities will open across the year. Join our mailing list to receive early information about them.