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The Society of Authors is a non-profit making organisation, founded in 1884,
“to protect the rights and further the interests of authors”
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Grants and Prizes
Grants
The Authors' Foundation
The Authors' Foundation gives grants to authors whose project is for a British publisher. Grants can be to help with research costs, or to buy time to write.
Please note, the Authors' Foundation does not cover self-published authors as grants cannot be awarded to help towards the costs of publication.
How to apply
Download the Authors' Foundation application guidelines:
Authors' Foundation Guidelines
Other Grants
Additionally, the following special grants are made in each round of the Authors' Foundation.
The Roger Deakin Awards: Offers funding to authors of creative works of any genre concerned with natural history, landscape or the environment, in memory of the environmentalist, writer and film maker Roger Deakin.
John Heygate Awards: In memory of John Heygate, to help authors of commissioned works of travel writing.
The Elizabeth Longford Grants: Flora Fraser and Peter Soros kindly sponsor an award of £2,500, in memory of Elizabeth Longford: open to historical biographers working on a commissioned book.
John C Laurence Awards: offer funding to works, of any genre, which help to improve understanding between races.
Michael Meyer Awards: In memory of Michael Meyer, a generous benefactor, who wrote about the theatre and translated the plays of Ibsen and Strindberg.
Arthur Welton Awards: In memory of philanthropist and poet Arthur Welton.
The
Great Britain Sasakawa Grant: one grant of £2,000 is awarded each year. Works of fiction or non-fiction about any aspect of Japanese culture or society, or set in a Japanese context will be considered. Preference will be given to works which help to interpret modern Japan to the English-speaking world.
For full details about all of these awards, see the Authors' Foundation Guidelines
The K Blundell Trust
The K Blundell Trust gives grants to British authors under the age of 40 whose project is for a British publisher. The project must aim to increase social awareness, and can be fiction or non-fiction.
How to apply