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 grants to writers with works in progress, this year totalling in excess of £360,000. Each grant can be up to £6,000 (occasionally more). Almost always, the authors receiving these grants will have contracts from UK publishers. The grants are made twice a year. [...] The Gaelic Books Council provides support to Scottish Gaelic writers through grants. They also run awards in partnership with the Scottish Book Trust and run events. Grand Plan is a charity that gives £1000 grants to UK based creatives of colour to help them fund a project. Hawthornden Literary Retreat in Midlothian is an international retreat where up to five writers (Fellows) at a time can stay and work, with free board and lodging, for a month. [...] For those based in England, Arts Council England’s funding programmes include Developing your Creative Practice, which allows independent creative practitioners to undertake ambitious research and development and make a step change in their practice, and National Lottery Project Grants which support thousands of individual artists, and community and cultural organisations.