29 Grants, Residencies, and Fellowships for Writers

Society of Authors: Dursilla Harvey Access FundThese are small grants for UK-based writers, giving authors support for travel, subsistence, childcare or access needs for events, residencies, and retreats. Usual grants will be under £100 and no more than £350. The fund will be open all year round and claims under £150 will be assessed on a rolling basis (usually within two weeks) with larger requests processed on a quarterly basis. Value: Up to £350 Deadline: Rolling [...] Open for: UK/British writers Details here. (All of the Society of Authors’ grants are here. Also see the Early Career Bursaries for London Writers, which provide three London writers on a low income a year with bursaries each of £10,000 cash and £5,000 towards development opportunities. The deadline is 25 September 2023; details here.) [...] submit 10,000 words of writing every month (see guidelines). They also say, “The Foundation will not review or comment on the monthly submissions as they come in. However, each Scholar will be offered the opportunity to be mentored by an established author or publisher. In most cases the mentorship will begin after the book has been finished and the Scholarship period has ended.” Writers are asked to donate a percentage of earnings from sales of what they have written in the scholarship period