Deadline: October 31 2013
Applications are now accepted for the 2013 Morland Writing Scholarship. It can be difficult for writers in the early stages of their career to write and to earn a living outside writing at the same time. To help fill this need the MMF has established up to three Morland Writing Scholarships every year which is open to anyone who has been born in Africa or both of whose parents were born in Africa.
The Scholars will receive a grant of £18,000, paid monthly over the course of one year. In return for this the Scholars will agree that 20% of whatever they subsequently receive from what they write during the year of the Scholarship will be paid to the MMF which may be used to support other promising writers and possibly to expand the Scholarship scheme in later years.
Eligibility
- To qualify for the Scholarship a candidate must submit a piece of published work, or an excerpt from a piece of published work, of between two and seven thousand words to be evaluated by a panel set up by the MMF which will include MMF trustees and past participants in the Caine Prize.
- The Scholarships will be awarded based on these submissions although the Foundation may also wish to question certain candidates or ask for other work.
- The candidates will be expected to submit a brief description of the work they intend to write (ideally 200 – 500 words). It should be a new work, not a work in progress.
- The proposed work must be in English as must all candidacy submissions.
Scholarship Requirement
- The only condition imposed on the Scholars during the year of their Scholarship is that they must write. They will be asked to submit by e-mail at least 10,000 new words every month until they have finished their book.
- The Scholarship will terminate if a Scholar fails to submit the required work on time unless prior authorisation has been received.
- The Foundation is happy to support fiction or non-fiction but not poetry, plays or screen-plays.
- The Scholarship is intended for writers who want to write a full-length book of 80,000 words or more.
The Scholarships will be announced in December 2013 and will run for the whole of calendar 2014. The Trustees reserve the right to vary the terms and requirements of the Scholarships at their discretion.
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