Deadline for Applications:
October 31 2015
(This information is
published on the Arts & Culture Trust’s blog – see http://www.act.org.za)
Applications are now open for the Morland Writing
Scholarship for 2016. Three scholarships of £18,000 (US $28,000) each will be
awarded to fiction writers and one prize of £27,000 (US$42,000) will be awarded
to a writer of non-fiction.
The scholarship is open to writers who were born in Africa
or whose parents were born in Africa.
This scholarship is sponsored by the Miles Morland
Foundation. The foundation’s focus is culture and education with a particular
interest in writing. Other projects supported by the foundation include literary
festivals in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Somaliland, and the Caine Prize for
African Writing.
The three successful fiction applicants will each receive a
grant of £18,000, paid monthly over the course of the 2016 calendar year. The
successful non-fiction applicant’s scholarship will be paid over a period of 18
months. All of the scholarship recipients will also have the opportunity to be
mentored by an established author or publisher.
The scholarship is intended for writers who want to write a
full-length book of 80,000 words or more. To this end, the writers will be
asked to submit via email 10,000 new words every month until they have finished
their book. The scholarship will terminate if a writer fails to submit the
required work on time without prior authorisation.
Another, somewhat unusual, requirement is that the three
writers are expected to donate back to the Miles Morland Foundation 20 per cent
of the subsequent earnings from what they write during their scholarship year.
This is not a legally binding condition, but instead viewed as a ‘debt of
honour’.
Applications are judged on literary merit. Proposed books
can be on any subject though the judges will show preference to works which
relate to Africa.
For full information on the application process visit the
Arts & Culture Trust’s blog – see http://www.act.org.za
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