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GRANTS AND AWARDS FOR WRITERS
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Grants and awards available to writers

Arts Council of England
There are 15 awards of £7,000 each to be given to writers engaged on works-in progress. There are a variety of categories and the writers must have been
previously published in book form.

Further details and application form from:

Literature Department
Arts Council of England
14 Great Peter Street
London SW1P 3NQ
Tel. 020 7973 6442

British Academy
A number of awards and grants exist in different departments of the British Academy. However, these are only for scholars who wish to undertake advanced
research at post-doctoral level, and only cover the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. They are listed in a Guide to Awards in the Humanities and
Social Sciences available from:

The British Academy
10 Carlton House Terrace
London
SW1Y 5AH
Tel: 020 7969 5200
website: <http://www.britac.ac.uk>www.britac.ac.uk
(see Research Funding)

David T Wong Fellowship in Creative Writing
An annual award of £25,000 for a work of fiction in English which deals seriously with some aspect of life in the Far East (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam). The Fellow is expected to reside on campus at the University of East Anglia for one year, where he/she is expected only to write. There are no teaching commitments.

The David T K Wong Fellowship
School of English and American Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
Tel: 01603 592810
Fax: 01603 507728
e-mail: <mailto:v.striker@uea.ac.uk>v.striker@uea.ac.uk
or visit the <http://www.uea.ac.uk/eas/Fellowships/wong/WongFell.htm>web site

The Fulbright Commission
Offers a Raymond Chandler UK Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing.
This is awarded to British and American citizens in alternate years. More information is available from:

The Fulbright Commission
Fulbright House
62 Doughty Street
London
WC1N 2LS
Tel. 020 7404 6880

FunderFinder
65 Raglan Road
Leeds
LS2 9DZ
Tel: 0113 243 3008 <http://www.funderfinder.org.uk>www.funderfinder.org.uk

Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The Foundation has set up a fund of £10,000 to support freelances in publishing.
This funding is available to those freelances wishing to develop their skills through training. Further details and an application form can be obtained from:

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation
18 Queen Anne's Gate
London
SW1H 9AA
Tel: 020 7227 3500
web: <http://www.phf.org.uk>www.phf.org.uk
e-mail: <mailto:information@phf.org.uk>information@phf.org.uk

London Arts
London Arts operate 30 funding programmes aimed at poets and writers of fiction.
Specific details can be obtained from:

London Arts
Elme House
133 Long Acre
London
WC2E 9AF
Tel. 020 7240 1313 or 020 7240 4578 (Help Line)

Northern Arts
A literary fellowship is available over a two-year period. Information and application forms can be obtained from:

Kate Griffin
Northern Arts
Central Square
Forth Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3PJ
tel: 0191 255 8542
email: grants@northernarts.org.uk
web: <http://www.northernarts.org>www.northernarts.org

Grants to individual writers are managed by

New Writing North

New Writing North
7-8 Trinity Chare
Quayside
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3DF
tel: 0191 232 9991
fax: 0191 230 1883
web: <http://www.newwritingnorth.com>www.newwritingnorth.com

The Royal Literary Fund[/b ]
Grants and pensions are awarded to published authors in financial need or to their dependants. Examples of an author's works are needed for assessment by the
Committee. Write for further details and an application form to:

Mrs Fiona Clark
The Royal Literary Fund
3 Johnsons Court
Off Fleet Street
EC4A 3EA
Tel. 020 7353 7150

[b]Society of Authors
The Society of Authors administers three charitable trusts which provide grants to authors in financial difficulty. These are: The Francis Head Bequest; The
Authors' Contingency Fund; and The John Masefield Memorial Trust.

In addition to this, The Society of Authors also provides authors with grants for particular projects from The Authors' Foundation. Information and
application forms are available from:

Dorothy Wright
The Society of Authors
84 Drayton Gardens
London
SW10 9SB
Tel. 020 7373 6642

Southern Arts
Southern Arts awards an annual bursary to assist a published writer with work in progress. This award is worth £3500 and submissions should be made by 14 August each year. Further details and application requirements are available from:

Southern Arts
Literature Department
13 St Clement Street
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9DO
Tel. 01962 855099

University of East Anglia
UEA Writing Fellowship is offered to a practising writer during the Spring semester. The writer is offered the opportunity to pursue his/her own work. This involves teaching an undergraduate course in creative writing and organizing activities in the region. The salary is £5000 plus flat fee and office.
Application details and further information from:

University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
Tel. 01603 56161

Wingate Scholarships
For further information write to:

Wingate Scholarships
38 Curzon Street
London W1Y 8EY

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