SoA Grants, Prizes, and Funding

– The Authors’ Foundation and K Blundell Trust grants are administered biannually to published authors who have been commissioned by or are likely to secure a contract with a British publisher. These grants are intended to help authors with the costs of research, travel, day-to-day living costs while writing and other writing-related expenditure. [...] – The K Blundell Trust offers funding to British fiction or non-fiction authors under the age of 40 whose work aims to increase social awareness. The Authors’ Foundationprovides grants to assist established authors, alongside specific named grants for writing in the following fields: biography about women, the environment and natural history, philanthropy, poetry, racial understanding, Scandinavia, science fiction, theatre, fantasy and magical realism (open to adult and children’s writers), spy [...] – Fiction andnon-fiction authors can apply via their publishers to both The Somerset Maugham Awards and The Sunday Times/PF+D Young Writer of the Year Award. The former is awarded to British writers under the age of 35 for a published work of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, whilst the latter is awarded to a British or Irish author (18-35 years old) for a published or self-published work of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry.