Curtis Brown Creative Recenzje 

After a long lapse in regular writing, I needed a way to quickly and easily get started again. The 30-Day Bootcamp was perfect. So perfect, I'm going to sign up for Bootcamp 2.

The Literary Course with Jonny Geller was amazing. I found it so insightful to learn about the industry and to interact with other aspiring writers on the course.

Completing the course has made me feel one giant step closer to achieving my aims of being a published writer.

The bootcamp was really affordable and the teaching was clear and precise. I found the writing exercises ignited my muse and got me back to work on my novel, thank you Curtis Brown and Anna.

Very good web environment, easy to navigate, clean and professional. Materials are useful but pretty basic. You should make clear that this is really a beginners course. Faber Academy are far superior in terms of course content and tutor feedback. If you are a complete beginner then this makes a reasonable value for money option.

Couldn't recommend more. Brilliant courses, whether you've written a lot already or you're starting from scratch. I was given the 30 Day Bootcamp as a birthday present and it's the best gift I've had for years. Great content and comms with the team, accessible and friendly.

A well-structured course that I was able to access at home and therefore fit around my work schedule. The mixture of videos, written material, tasks and the feedback via the forum from colleagues provided a great all-round virtual workshop experience. I've long been a fan of Tessa Hadley's novels and short stories and the way she thinks about writing, so it was a great pleasure to have a virtual TH join my at my desk once a week. The writing tasks and exercises helped me think about my writing in new ways and in ways I had forgotten about through long-held habits. I loved it all.

The learning platform was glitchy and I couldn’t access a lot of it on my laptop as there was a technical issue. Disappointing

The course caused me to focus on writing. I usually write in the 1st person’s POV, but I tried writing from the 3rd person’s POV and found I could do it. Amazing!

I did the Writing a Psychological Thriller course and the material was excellent, plus feedback from Curtis Brown staff and sometimes other students helpful. But you really need to have written a good chunk of your manuscript already to benefit from the course most. I wasn’t able to find time to write 3 opening chapters and a summary to submit because I work full time which meant I missed out on one of the most valuable parts of the course. Suggest they offer a part-time option in future that goes at a slower pace to allow those who want to write a novel but are time poor to get the most out of the course.

The CBC Bootcamp was a great re-boot for me. Having not written anything for years, this has applied the proverbial boot to my backside and I hope to follow up with a couple more specific courses later this year. A really worthwhile month for me - working through the different tasks and taking tips from the videos from Anna. Once I'd started getting and giving feedback that part of the course fell into place too, was great fun and really confidence-building. Absolutely excellent and fantastic value.

I have learnt a lot in three CBC courses i took. I have had a lot of invaluable pieces of advice from the course instructor, Anna Davis and a lot of support from the course participants. The courses are structured really well and the tasks and prompts have opened new avenues for me. Anyone who really wants to improve their writing should take a CBC course. Course participants are encouraged to critique each other's work and do it encouragingly. This is really important. A lot of writers are insecure and the encouraging words can make a lot of difference.

Fantastic psychological thriller course - Erin Kelly shares deep insights into everything you need to know to construct a twisty and satisfying read. Feedback from other course members and from a course tutor were helpful, as was reading and giving feedback on others' work.

The 30-Day Writing Bootcamp was exactly what I needed to jump start new material and jump back into stories that needed freshening up. The teaching was top notch, and the participants were engaged and wonderful at giving and receiving feedback. I highly recommend it.

Great value for money. Insightful, educational and a great way to meet fellow writers...experience a varied range of genres and gain feedback.

I had an amazing experience working with the team at Curtis Brown Creative. I was offered a place on the Breakthrough Writers Scheme.

It's safe to say it's been life changing for my confidence and creativity. Highly recommend working with this amazing, passionate and enthusiastic team.

I had finished my umpteenth draft of my novel and took the 1 day course. I started the day feeling overwhelmed with a manuscript that was unwieldy and with Anna's feedback I felt that I was given the tools to start my edit with confidence and purpose. She also gave feedback on everyone's work which was really useful and encouraging and brutally honest, which is what we needed to prevent us wasting time. I think this in itself is worth the price.

As a passionate writer, who has already written two novels, this was a brilliant move on my part to take the longer Curtis Brown Creative “Writing Your Novel” course (3-months). I’d already tried the 6-week “Writing a Romance Novel” course and really enjoyed using the online learning platform. Each week there were videos on a new topic and then an interactive forum for e-meeting other writers, where I read lots of fabulous excerpts from a diverse range of book ideas. The longer 3-month course was more intense and required us to read longer pieces and do more in-depth discussion and critique into each module topic. It’s a selected course so you know everyone there is motivated and will turn up and give their best to help each other’s work improve. That peer-to-peer learning was really useful to me and I really wish I had found this school years ago - definitely two book attempts ago. Imagine fifteen different talented writers take apart your first 3,000 words? Often people picked up on the same snags and this helped polish up the opening. If I can get past 15 writers, chances are higher an agent will read all the way to the end of my submission.
If I had found this school earlier, it would also have saved me many drafts and rewrites. I’m now writing book three, and I can already see how much easier the process is. How much more confident I am as a writer. How many tools I bring with me to the drafting table. My only regret is that I didn’t do the six-month course as these few months have flown by and I can’t believe it’s over - I literally sent off my agent pitch, biography, and first 3,000 words to the Curtis Brown Creative Team this afternoon.
So if you want to get better at your craft, I recommend booking a course. I’ve also finished the 5-week David Nicholls course alongside the final month of the “Writing your Novel” course and this was really insightful. He was very open about how he wrote each book including his strategy for writing One Day - which I really enjoyed reading. I’m actually going to pinch his technique for my second novel that’s been sitting in my laptop for two years doing nothing. To kick that off, I’m going do the 30-day writing challenge with Anna Davis which is only £30 and then I’m booked to do the “Edit & Pitch”. I also want to do the rewrite doctor day and well, all of ‘em. 😂 (I turned 40 this year and asked for Curtis Brown vouchers as a present. If you’re reading this, do the same since Christmas is coming up!).
Lastly, the most exciting part, aside from the Zoom drinks my group had, is knowing soon I get professional feedback on my submission package and maybe, just maybe, an agent sees my work and likes it. Living the dream!
But at a minimum, it’s got me back in love with my writing and this - after having two kids - is priceless. If you are like me and really enjoy the craft and get lost in the worlds you create, then definitely take a look at the courses on offer. It will be time well spent.

This course went above and beyond my expectations - and I had pretty high expectations with CBC’s glowing reputation!

The course material is awesome. The insights gained from the workshops have been so illuminating, and my tutor's feedback has been nothing short of epic. She’s helped lift my confidence and steer my focus; making me much clearer on my story going forward.

Each module was structured in a way to build a solid foundation on story craft and writing, but what I loved in particular about his course, was discovering how this knowledge relates directly to my own writing.

It's not just a course about writing a novel, it's a course that helps write your own novel, allowing you to discover plot holes and writing ticks you might not be aware of. It also helps you focus on digging deeper into your character dimensions and layers of your story.

Without a doubt, my WIP is 100% stronger from taking this course and my vision is crystal clear.

I couldn't be happier. I didn't want it to ever end!

I have just finished a 5 week creative writing "Inside Story" course with Curtis Brown Creative. It has been so enjoyable, with interesting modules, writing prompts and weekly tasks. The feedback from fellow cohort members and the course reader was insightful and helpful. I'm impressed by the overall quality and would definitely recommend.

Informative and well thought out course. The teachers (I have done 2 so far) are knowledgeable, talented and excellent at passing in their skills. I was amazed how easy it is to be taught online rather than face to face. Constructive analysis of your writing each week and great support from the others on the forum. Really like the end of course report. Can’t recommend highly enough!