Welcome to Discoveries

The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, Curtis Brown Literary Agency and Curtis Brown Creative Writing School are delighted to launch Discoveries 2027, seeking out, inspiring and supporting women writers in the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands from their early pages to long-term careers.

If you'd like to enter, please fill in the form below to tell us a bit about yourself and to send us the first 10,000 words of your novel and a synopsis of between 500-1,000 words. Novels do not need to be finished before you enter the programme, but you should be able to summarise in your synopsis the main plot of your work-in-progress. Please do ensure you have read the Terms and Conditions for the competition before submitting your entry. Any questions? Please see our FAQs.

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Enter your contact information

First name

Last name

Email

Phone number

Address One

Address Two

City

Postcode

About your writing

Don’t worry if you haven’t done much writing before. Discoveries seeks potential rather than polish. Over the years Discoveries has helped writers at many stages of their writing journeys. We’d love to hear more about your journey so far, even if you are at the very beginning.

You might like to tell us how you came up with the idea for the novel you’re submitting, which authors inspire you, or even just why you write. (Max. 500 words)

Have you ever won any awards or prizes for your writing?

If yes, please provide details:

Do you have any other writing achievements you’d like to tell us about? (Max. 300 words)

Have you ever taken a creative writing course?

If yes, please provide details:

Have you ever taken part in a writing mentoring programme?

If yes, please provide details:

Type in or paste your story and select the genre

Title

Genre

Click all that apply. If you’re not sure, a good trick is to think about comparable books that are already published and what genre(s) they fall under.)

Synopsis text

Copy and paste your synopsis in the area below. Your synopsis should be a summary of the main plot of your novel (Max. 1,000 words).

Submission text

Copy and paste your submission text in the area below (max 10,000 words). Please do not include any personal information, synopsis or any other text besides your writing.

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Marketing & Terms & Conditions

Updates and keeping in touch

We’ll be in touch with Discoveries-related updates and opportunities as the programme progresses. Please note that due to the number of entries we receive, we will only contact entrants as regards their individual entries if they are longlisted. We’d love to keep in touch beyond Discoveries! If you would like to subscribe to our partners’ newsletters, please tick the boxes below.

Curtis Brown Creative

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Terms and Conditions

View the Terms and Conditions.

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A Little More About You

Discoveries welcomes applications from women writers of all ages (18+) and backgrounds across the UK and Ireland. We want to ensure that we reach as many eligible writers as possible and the optional answers that you provide to the survey questions below will be used to improve Discoveries’ outreach efforts. Any answers that you provide will be anonymised.

Region

What is your ethnic group?

Please write in your ethnicity using your own words if you don’t identify with any groups in the list.

How old are you?

Do you consider yourself to have a disability, health condition or illness as defined by the Equality Act 2010? (I.e. You have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities as per the Equality Act 2010).

Do you identify as working-class or as someone who comes from a working-class background?

Where did you hear about Discoveries?

For "Other" - can you be more specific?

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