Apply for a grant for your work in progress. We are one of the few organisations to make grants to writers for works in progress, currently awarding over £360,000 each year.
The Authors’ Foundation and K Blundell Trust award grants twice yearly to writers whose book project is for a commercial UK publisher.
From 2021, Authors' Foundation grants include the World of Books Impact Award - two annual grants of £5,000 each for books of any genre that have the power to inspire progressive behaviour change.
The K Blundell Trust, generously endowed by the late Kathleen Blundell, gives grants of up to £6,000 to British authors under the age of 40 whose work, which can be fiction or non-fiction, aims to increase social awareness.
These grants assist writers with research costs or by buying them time to write, helping them to bring exciting new work into the world. We support writers from a range of genres and styles and at all stages of their literary careers.
Funding can be used for any of the following:
Time to write – such as taking time off from freelance or other paid work in order to write.
Basic living costs – the fund can be used for rent, utilities, childcare costs etc. while you are writing
Research trips – any location or archival research.
We have two rounds of funding each year, in the Spring and in the Autumn:
Application Deadline Funds Available
1 February, annually May
1 July, annually October
Find out more here
Autumn deadline: 1 July 2021