Deadline for applications:
October 30, 2015
ANFASA, the Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of
South Africa, has announced the next round of the grant scheme to benefit
authors of academic and general non-fiction works.
A “general non-fiction work” could be a biography or an
autobiography; a history of a town or a region or a religion; a book about
music or sport or theatre; a political or social analysis; an account of
everyday life in a township; a book about nursing, or cooking, or fashion, or
fishes, or traditional medicines, or cars. These are just a few of the many
topics supported by the ANFASA grant scheme in the past.
If you are currently working on a scholarly or a general
non-fiction work, and are a member of ANFASA, you are eligible to apply. If you
are not yet a member of ANFASA you can join at the same time as you submit your
application.
The grants are intended to provide a sum of around R20,000
to R25,000 to be used for an author to “buy time” – to take leave, for
instance, and devote herself or himself to writing; or to travel in order to
conduct research. The grants are for research and writing, and do not cover the
cost of publishing the manuscript.
There are only two criteria for eligibility: membership of
ANFASA and the desire to complete the writing of a general non-fiction or
academic work for publication in book form.
An independent committee will assess the applications and
select the most deserving. It aims to offer awards to a wide-ranging group of
authors and subjects, and the selection process will respect the need to treat
new and experienced authors equally; to bear in mind authors writing in rural
as well as urban locations; and to consider authors at all levels of education
from the untutored to the degreed.
The ANFASA grant scheme especially encourages writing by new
authors. Applications in all the official languages will be equally considered.
To download an application form go to www.anfasa.org.za or send an e-mail to info@anfasa.org.za.
The closing date for applications is October 30, 2015, and
the successful applications will be announced in December.
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