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 project is for a British publisher. Our grants assist with research costs or give authors valuable time to complete work.
The Authors’ Foundation was set up from donations by authors in 1984 and gives grants of up to £6,000 to authors who are currently working on a project and have, or are likely to have, interest from a British publisher.
The K Blundell Trust gives grants of up to £6,000 to British authors under the age of 40 whose work aims to increase social awareness. The project can be fiction or non-fiction.
Please note, we are unable to accept self-published authors as grants cannot be awarded to help towards the costs of publication. Grants cannot be made for education or unspecified research costs.
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For all enquiries, please contact funding@societyofauthors.org.
Our annual deadlines for applications are 1 April and 1 September.