Funding for Writers

We thought it might be helpful to compile some of the different funding options discussed in the webinar in one place, so we’ve created this page to give some more information. The webinar was free to attend, and a video recording can be viewed at the bottom of this page. We hope you find it useful! ## Arts Council England Arts Council England has two main streams for securing funding for writers and artists. These are Project Grants and Developing Your Creative Practice. [...] The Society of Authors provides £360,000 through Time to Write grants – all writers are welcome to apply, you don’t have to be a member of Society of Authors. Read more about Society of Authors’ grants here. The Society of Authors also run a great series of Prizes, run frequent Campaigns on author rights issues and also have handy Advice around funding and securing financial support. ## Royal Society of Literature [...] ## Royal Literary Fund The Royal Literary Fund provides grants and pensions to writers in financial difficulty. They are a self-funded charity, and have been supporting authors since 1790, among them James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Edith Nesbit. To find out more about the RLF’s Grants and Pensions, click here. You can find out more about their Fellowship scheme, which provides individual writing support to students in the UK here. ## The Literary Consultancy