Morland African Writing Scholarships 2025 (£18,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: September 22, 2025

Applications are open for the Morland African Writing Scholarships 2025. The Miles Morland Foundation’s important intention is to assist entities in Africa which allow Africans to get their voices heard. It is especially all for supporting African writing and African literature.

It could be troublesome for writers, earlier than they develop into established, to write down whereas concurrently incomes a dwelling. To assist meet this want the MMF yearly awards a small variety of Morland Writing Scholarships, with the intention being to permit every Scholar the time to provide the primary draft of a accomplished e book.

Grant

• Scholars will obtain a grant of £18,000, paid month-to-month over the course of twelve months. At the discretion of the Foundation, Scholars writing non-fiction, who require extra analysis time, may obtain a further grant, paid over a interval of as much as eighteen months.

Eligibility

• Open to anybody writing within the English language who was born in Africa, or each of whose mother and father have been born in Africa.
• To qualify for the Scholarship a candidate should submit an excerpt from a bit of labor of between 2,000 – 5,000 phrases, written in English that has been printed and provided on the market, you should ship clear proof that the piece you add as part of your application has been each printed AND provided on the market.

Requirement

• The solely situation imposed on the Scholars in the course of the 12 months of their Scholarship is that they need to write. They can be requested to submit by e-mail at the very least 10,000 new phrases each month till they’ve completed their e book, or their Scholarship time period has ended. If the primary draft of the e book is accomplished earlier than the 12 months is up, funds will proceed whereas the Scholar edits and refines their work.

Application

Application requires:

• A submission of between 2,000 to five,000 phrases as a Word doc of labor that has been printed and provided on the market.
• Proof of publication and proof of sale.
• A scan of an official doc displaying that you just, or each of your mother and father, have been born in Africa.
• An outline of between 400 – 1,000 phrases concerning the new e book you propose to write down.
• A quick bio of between 200 – 300 phrases.
• Tell them the way you heard concerning the Morland Writing Scholarships.

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For extra info, go to Morland African Writing Scholarships.