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Submission Deadline: October 31st 2014

The Miles Morland Foundation is pleased to announce today the 2014 Morland Writing Scholarships for African writers. The Scholarships is open to anyone who had been born in Africa or both of whose parents were born in Africa.

Grant

The Scholars will receive a grant of £18,000, paid monthly over the course of one year.

Scholar’s Undertaking

In return for this it is expected that the Scholars will pay to the MMF 20% of whatever they subsequently receive from what they write during the year of their Scholarship.

These funds will be used to support other promising writers. Last year the obligation to return 20% was a binding condition of accepting the Scholarship.
For this year’s Scholars, and retro-actively for last year’s, the 20% return obligation should be considered a debt of honour rather than a legally binding obligation.

Qualification

To qualify for the Scholarship a candidate must submit a piece of published work, or an excerpt from a piece of published work (written in English), of between two and five thousand words to be evaluated by a panel of readers and judges set up by the MMF.
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 work submitted will be judged purely on literary merit. It is not the purpose of the Scholarships to support academic or scientific research, or works of special interest such as religious or political writings. Submissions or proposals of this nature do not qualify.

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 Scholarship is intended for writers who want to write a full-length book of 80,000 words or more.

Important Dates

The Scholarships will be announced in December 2014

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the MORLAND WRITING SCHOLARSHIPS For Africans

Deadline: October 31st 2013

Open: To anyone who has been born in Africa or both of whose parents were born in Africa.

Worth: The Scholars will receive a grant of £18,000, paid monthly over the course of one year.

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 Miles Morland Foundation has established up to three Morland Writing Scholarships every year. The Scholarships will be open to anyone who has been born in Africa or both of whose parents were born in Africa.

Grant
The Scholars will receive a grant of £18,000, paid monthly over the course of one year.

Scholar’s Undertaking
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.

Qualifications
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.

Proposed 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. Please also tell us in fewer than 100 words something about yourself and your background.

It is not the intention of the MMF to give editorial or publishing advice to Scholars. They will have to find their own agents and publishers although it is to be hoped that over the years the Morland Scholarships will come to be recognised as an incubator of talent. Works which relate to Africa are likely to be preferred by the judges.

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 closing date for submissions for the first series of Writing Scholarships will be October 31st 2013. 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.

Please go to FAQs about the Morland Writing Scholarships to answer any further questions.

All enquiries and submissions relating to the Morland Scholarships should be directed to[email protected].

Visit the Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship Official Webpage

2014 MORLAND WRITING SCHOLARSHIPS For Africans ( grant of £18,000, paid monthly over the course of one year)

Morland Writing Scholarship for Africans. ( £18,000 Grant for Scholars)