The Morland Scholarship for African Writers

Many writers struggle to write as they juggle fulltime jobs or other occupations to pay bills. It can be really tough for a writer especially in Africa where the opportunities for paid work or getting published aren’t as abundant as on other continents. To help meet this need the MMF awards annually 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. 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.

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 may receive a grant of up to £27,000, paid over a period  of up to eighteen months.

To qualify for the Scholarship, a candidate must submit an excerpt from a piece of work of between 2,000 to 5,000 words written in English that has been published and offered for sale. This will be evaluated by a panel of readers and judges set up by the MMF. The candidates should also submit a description of up to 1,000 words of the work they intend to write. The proposal must be for a full length book of no fewer than 80,000 words. The MMF does not accept proposals for collaborative writing, short story collections, poetry, plays, film scripts or children’s books. The proposal should be for a completely new work, not a work in progress, and must be in English. The Foundation welcomes both fiction and non-fiction proposals.

Applications  will be received between 30th June 2016 and Oct 31st 2016. Please see the FAQs about the Morland Writing Scholarship to answer any further questions and find out more details about the Scholarships.

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Many writers struggle to write as they juggle fulltime jobs or other occupations to pay bills. It can be really tough for a writer especially in Africa where the opportunities for paid work or getting published aren't as abundant as on other continents. To help meet this need the...