Deadline: 18 September 2023
The Miles Morland Foundation (MMF) is seeking applications to award a small number of Morland Writing Scholarships, with the aim being to allow each Scholar the time to produce the first draft of a completed book.
Grant Information
- Scholars writing fiction will receive a grant of £18,000, paid monthly over the course of twelve months. At the discretion of the Foundation, Scholars writing non-fiction, who require additional research time, could receive an additional grant, paid over a period of up to eighteen months.
Scholar’s Undertaking
- At the end of each month scholars must send the Foundation 10,000 new words that they will have written over the course of the month.
- Scholars are also asked to donate to the MMF 20% of whatever they subsequently receive from the book they write during the period of their Scholarship.
- This includes revenues as a result of film rights, serialisations or other ancillary revenues arising from the book written during the Scholarship period.
- These funds will be used to support other promising writers. The 20% return obligation should be considered a debt of honour rather than a legally binding obligation.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Scholarships are open to anyone writing in the English language who was born in Africa, or both of whose parents were born in Africa.
- The Foundation welcomes both fiction and non-fiction proposals.
- Qualifications
- To qualify for the Scholarship a candidate must submit an excerpt from a piece of work of between 2,000 – 5,000 words, written in English that has been published and offered for sale, you must send clear evidence that the piece you upload as part of your application has been both published and offered for sale.
- This will be evaluated by a panel of readers and judges set up by the MMF.
- The work submitted will be judged purely on literary merit. It is not the purpose of the Scholarships to support academic or scientific research, or works of special interest such as religious or political writings. Submissions or proposals of this nature do not qualify.
- The Scholarships are meant for full length works of adult fiction or non-fiction. Poetry, plays, film scripts, children’s books, and short story collections do not qualify.
For more information, visit MMF.
