Novel-Writing

Discoveries 2027 judges, from left: Kate Mosse, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Anna Davis, Ciara Finan and Ela Lee

How to prepare your entry to Discoveries 2027

Curtis Brown Creative are delighted to be partnering with the Women’s Prize Trust, The Curtis Brown Group and Audible to run Discoveries for a seventh year! This is an annual writing development programme for unpublished women writers currently residing in the UK or Ireland.

How to prepare your entry to Discoveries 2027

3rd Sep 2026

Introducing the winner of Modern Stories: It Must be Love 2026

28th Jul 2026

Whitney Fitzsimmons: 'I’m fascinated with cold cases that go undiscovered for years'

23rd Jul 2026

Lynsey McDonnell: 'I built a world in my mind that felt incredibly real'

9th Jul 2026

Amy Abdelnoor: 'Hope comes through seeing each other’s humanity'

7th Jul 2026

Introducing the shortlist for Modern Stories: It Must be Love 2026

7th Jul 2026

Steve Blackman: 'Readers only feel tension when they understand exactly what’s at stake'

2nd Jul 2026

Ruth Newton: 'I'll always be interested in emotions and the lengths we go to avoid, suppress, or express our feelings'

30th Jun 2026

Shannon Kelly-White: 'I wanted to write about the women who slip through history’s fingers'

25th Jun 2026

Laura Evans: 'I wanted to write something with ritual and tradition woven through it'

23rd Jun 2026

Rukky Brume: ‘Rewrite, and rewrite again until it feels true’