Literature & Writing Grants
102 verified funding opportunities for literature & writing artists.
Comics as a catalyst for change
Supported through our National Lottery Project Grants, the programme was designed to develop, publish and promote emergi…
The Best Artist Grants & Opportunities in June 2023
Comic Crossing: Art of the Graphic Narrative exhibit seeks to highlight the depth of the comic genre to todays comic and…
Windrush Day Grant Scheme 2025: Projects to be funded
Over a total of 9 days, we will work with approximately 30 serving prisoners of Windrush descent across 6 UK prisons. Th…
Tower Poetry Development Grants - Christ Church, Oxford
Logo Logo ## Main navigation Logo Black banner featuring the Tower Poetry logo ## Breadcrumb # Tower Poetry Develop…
Culture Recovery Fund
Poet In the City Poet In the City # Culture Recovery Fund Poet in the City has been awarded a grant as part of the Gov…
For writers | National Centre for Writing | NCW
The Escalator New Writing Fellowships is our annual programme that celebrates East Anglian writers whose voices are unde…
Fellowship Scheme
The RLF runs the scheme in partnership with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) throughout the UK. Visit our Directory …
Grants for writers in need
Applications are open to all professional authors who are resident in the UK or British citizens – including all types o…
Arvon Grants: The David Pease Fund | Low Income and ...
GENERAL LOW INCOME GRANT – RESIDENTIAL COURSES AND ONLINE WRITING WEEKS If you are a UK resident and cannot afford the …
Apply for Arvon Playwriting Grant
| Apply for Arvon Playwriting Grant Deadline: Mon 28 Oct 2024 Arvon are offering four grants of £600 for its Writing f…
Funding & Support | ScreenUK Industry
Provides support for individuals working in film and television to access training, mentoring and other professional dev…
Get funding and support
Skip to content Become a MemberShop # Get funding and support At the BFI we champion new talent and unfamiliar storie…
How can a grant help fund my writing project, and where ...
Literary Magazines and Publishers: Some literary magazines and publishers offer grants to support emerging or underrepre…
Amazon Literary Partnership 2025
The grant funding is intended for innovative groups that amplify diverse voices and strive for a lasting impact on write…
Current translation grant opportunities
We run two core grants: PEN Translates, our grant for publishers, supporting the translation costs of new full-length …
Translation Grants
To bring more Ukrainian books to EU stores and provide Ukrainians with a more diverse selection of EU works, we have cre…
28 Writing Grants & Fellowships (Cash Awards Up to ...
The John Marsfield Memorial Trust provides grant to British poets or their dependents who are faced with financial probl…
Creative Nonfiction Grant
Projects must be under contract with a publisher in Canada, the UK, or the US by April 23 to be eligible. Contracts with…
The Royal Literary Fund
We offer a range of grants to professional writers needing short-term to long-term financial support. They might be faci…
Grants for writers facing financial difficulty
“The grant for me was just brilliant. I’d had life-saving surgery and had some follow-on issues, and it was a really dif…
Opportunities - Young Poets Network - The Poetry Society
Closed March 2023, re-opening 2024. The Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry is open to published and unpublished writers and poe…
The 2025 Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize
Write and perform original work; and Have a history of public presentation that includes a minimum of three spoken word…
ENTER THE PRIZE — Out-Spoken
Toby Campion is an award-winning poet, playwright and facilitator. A former UK Poetry Slam Champion and World Poetry Sl…
Projects & Commissioning
Faber and Faber, The Literary Consultancy, RADA, City Lit, Verve Festival, Bath Spa University, and Poetry School. In ad…
Poetry By Heart
Poetry by Heart is a national poetry speaking competition for schools and colleges, open to all pupils in key stages 2 t…
Artist Changemaker Program
Samantha Ainembabazi (she/her) is a poet, spoken-word artist, and curator. She began writing poetry at eight years old, …
Peggy Ramsay Foundation
The Peggy Ramsay Foundation was established to help writers and writing for the stage, and it helps writers at different…
25 submission opportunities for children's authors and illustrators in ...
Children’s Book North has launched a new picture book prize for writers and illustrators living in the North of England.…
The Jewish Children's Book Awards Prize for Writing and ...
Skip to content Instagram X-twitter Facebook Envelope Home | Awards & Prizes # The Jewish Children’s Bo…
Funders and partners
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is generously donating a year’s membership to each All S…
What we do
The Waterstones Children’s Laureate is the foremost representative of children’s literature, awarded biannually to a ren…
An alternative way to fund picture books that tackle tricky ...
In this post, I'm going to talk about hints for getting an Arts Council grant for writing/creating a book, but it's wort…
Grants
political and emotional exile for the now adolescent, who saw similarities between the National Socialist dictatorship a…
Local support for writers
Skip to Content Discover the Penguin books that shaped us Getting published # Local support for writers Facebook P…
Call For British Government To Invest £1.5 Million In UK ...
The fund proposes £1 million allocated to grants for early-stage ideation and advanced project completion in both comic …
Government Minister Backs Comic Book UK As It Criticises ...
Comic Book UK states that its goal is to make UK comics a £500 million industry. That means "multiple comic and graphic …
Grants database
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) celebrates the wide diversity of comics through an annual event and r…
Working Grants for Comic Artists
The scholarships are intended for the artistic development of professional comic artists. Funding is provided for time-l…
28 Prizes, Grants, and Residencies for Writers (Up to ...
novels are not to exceed 95,000 words in length. Graphic novels should not exceed 150 scripted pages. [...] (So far, the…
Comics and Capitalism
Now amongst the debate on such fine comic book places as Broken Frontier has been very detailed consideration of how we …
Getting Published | Manuscript & Poetry Submissions, ...
A British charity that has been supporting authors ... The Royal Literary Fund provides grants and pensions to writers i…
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 t…
Funding Sources for Translating and Editing Books
Scholarly editions and translations grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of…
Tower Poetry Schools Grants - Christ Church, Oxford
We are particularly committed to funding activities that will have a long term and positive impact on the teaching of po…
Friday New Pathways
Jerwood Royal Court Commissioning ... This new national initiative will award 6 grants of up to £6k to fund the first p…
New Play Commission Scheme
The New Play Commission Scheme was supported using public funding by Arts Council England and by the Society of London T…
Awards for Publishers
## For Literary Magazines The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature honor literary magazines t…
Funding and Grants for Writers
Arts Council England 14 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3NQ Tel 0845 300 6200 Fax 020 7973 6564 enquiries@artscounci…
SoA Grants, Prizes, and Funding
– The Authors’ Foundation and K Blundell Trust grants are administered biannually to published authors who have been com…
Sources of UK funding, grants, training and support
Our international projects, including Scottish Books International, the Scottish Books Showcase, Author International Tr…
Calls for Submissions
Skip to content Donate + Donate to CLMP + Support Us/Join Us Join + Benefits + Application Form Member Log I…
2025 First Graphic Novel Award
The First Graphic Novel Award is an amazing opportunity for anyone wishing to create a graphic novel for the first time.…
HW Fisher Novel-Writing Scholarship for Writers of Colour
help@curtisbrowncreative.co.uk | [...] Sun 31 Aug 2025 The HW Fisher Novel-Writing Scholarship will award one talented …
Royal Court Theatre grant
The Foundation's biggest UK grant awarded in this round has been made to the Royal Court Theatre to support their writer…
Grants & Fellowships
### Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project [...] in musical theatre. Further, the grants are not intended to be scholarships…
Funding for Writers
We thought it might be helpful to compile some of the different funding options discussed in the webinar in one place, s…
Episodic Lab
Designed to support writers with original long-form episodic projects, Film Independent’s Episodic Lab will accept a div…
Literary Magazine Fund
How do grants work, how can I apply? Amazon Literary Partnership provides grants to nonprofit literary organizations on …
SLAM — I AM LOUD
Our 2023 Slam Series was awarded Best Regular Spoken Word Event in the UK at the Saboteur Awards. Our 2023 Grand Slam Fi…
About Us
We amplify unheard voices.We positively encourage artists and producers to push the boundaries of performance poetry and…
Grants Programme
Your work must be professionally published or produced in the UK or Ireland and meet the following criteria: Writers m…
For translators | National Centre for Writing | NCW
We offer mentorships and residencies to literary translators, and we partner with the British Centre for Literary Transl…
Translation Funding Programme
# Translation grant Translation Funding Programme We seek to give international readers access to contemporary German-l…
Research Grants
1. Practitioner research and development grants: a number of grants of £200 each will be made available later this year …
SelfMadeHero | Graphic Anthology Programme
The mentoring programme is provided free of charge to participants. This was only made possible thanks to public funding…
Supporting arts, museums and libraries
How we support libraries ## Literature ### Literature The literature sector in England is incredibly exciting and dyn…
Grants
The Society of Authors administers a range of grants for authors – supporting works in progress and authors in financial…
Sources of funding for UK filmmakers
The BFI is the lead agency for film in the UK. The BFI Film Fund has a number of funding strands, investing over £26m of…
Comics Cultural Impact Collective bids for government ...
The UK Comics Fund is projected to generate millions in revenue, create up to 300 jobs a year, and deliver £3 – £5 retur…
Translation Prizes
Awarded annually, biennially or every three years, our Translation Prizes recognize outstanding translations from works …
Funding
Film London offers a wide range of funding opportunities for people within the screen industries, ranging from our work …
Spoken Words Programme Co-ordination
Speaking Words will offer people in. East London an opportunity to watch, perform and develop careers in spoken word and…
Welcome to the New SCBWI UK Regions
... grants to support writers, illustrators, and translators at every stage of their journey. You can explore all curren…
Book Writing & Publishing Funding UK | Crowdfunder
Get funding to write or publish your book. Raise support through crowdfunding for authors, book festivals, and self-publ…
Translation Support and Funding
The Translation Fund was launched on 25 August 2015 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. It is administered by …
TRANSLATION GRANTS | Aldus - European bookfairs network
The Aldus directory of translations grants is a global database providing a country by country insight on funding opport…
Writing prizes and opportunities
The Desmond Elliott Prize encourages publishers from across the UK and Ireland to submit literary fiction debuts for con…
Breakthrough Writers' Programme
#### 2. Develop your writing ##### Hone your craft #### 3. Edit & pitch ##### Get ready to submit to agents #### New…
Theatre Funding UK - A Guide
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation – The Foundation offers grants to promote the arts as well as funding 10 musical th…
Grants and Funding For Author/Illustrator School Visits
AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR RESOURCE PAGES: (To book creators: Feel free to let me know if you’d like your resource page adde…
UK arts funding for comics – does it exist?
I must say that, in 20+ years of observing local culture between Birmingham and Manchester I’d only ever heard of one Ar…
Comics Cultural Impact Collective call for £1.5m funding to ...
The UK Comics Fund is projected to generate millions in revenue, create up to 300 jobs a year, and deliver a £3 to £5 re…
Apples and Snakes: The Open Fund for Organisations
Produced by Apples and Snakes, England’s leading spoken word organisation, in partnership with UK jazz taste makers, Jaz…
Reading for Pleasure funding | Letters and Sounds
Funded by the money earned in royalties and foreign sales of the late Siobhan Dowd’s books, this Trust focuses on suppor…
Power of Poetry
Our flagship initiative, Power of Poetry, brings the transformational power of poetry into schools throughout the UK. We…
Access to funding
While a number of charitable organisations are able to provide discreet funding for creators, including the Authors' Fou…
RLF Grants for Writers
The Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is the world's oldest literary charity dedicated to supporting professional writers in fin…
THE POETS' HARDSHIP FUND
A radical mutual aid fund and magazine run by poets for poets in financial difficulty. Who we are and what we do. About …
Funding & Support
Week-long festivals of staged readings presenting the most exciting work we've read each year. ## Writers' Retreats, Bu…
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which …
Slick Films Fund
Slick Films, in partnership with Bolton Film Festival, is back for Year 3 with £10,000 for one bold short film and £3,00…
Launch of 2025 National Survey of Comic Creators
We need you. The survey is open to anyone over 16, based in the UK, who is making comics (or intending to) for public au…
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025
Applications are open to UK-based, up-and-coming authors and researchers who identify as Black, Asian or Ethnically Dive…
Where do I find out about grants & funding?
Where do I find out about grants & funding? Regional Arts Council Boards have lots of advice. See also the Society of Au…
Shore Scripts Short Film Fund & Grants for 2025
Our Finishing Funds offers a $4,000 cash grant to help finish your film. [...] Check your email for your FREE PITCHING G…
Where writers can find support – financial, editorial, and ...
The Authors’ Foundation, together with the K. Blundell Trust, are administered by the Society of Authors and offer grant…
Bursaries, fellowships and grants for translators Archives
A list of bursaries, stipends, prizes and other funds for translators of German literature can be found at Literaturport…
Translation Grants
The fund covers up to 75% of translation costs for selected projects and up to 100% of translation cost when a publisher…
Opportunities For Artists & Theatre Makers
# Opportunities For Artists & Theatre Makers #### Jerwood Arts Live Work Fund Individuals or collaborations, up to …
Great places to submit for new & unpublished writers
Litbreak Magazine values diversity and craft for their monthly online publication. Send in your fiction–everything from …
Project Seed Money – Support for Female Writers
The fund is not open to editors, copywriters, or for those with salaried income for writing. If you are unsure if you ar…
Funding
Skip to content # Funding ## About our funding We distributed over £50 million of funding in 2024 to support UK and i…