Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarships 2019 for Africans
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Applications for the Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship 2021 are now open! Apply now!

The Miles Morland Foundation’s main aim is to support entities in Africa which enable Africans to get their voices heard. It is particularly interested in supporting African writing and African literature. It can be difficult for writers, before they become established, to write while simultaneously earning a living. To help meet this need the MMF annually awards a small number of Morland Writing Scholarships, with the aim being to allow each Scholar the time to produce the first draft of a completed book. The Scholarships are open to anyone writing in the English language who was born in Africa, or both of whose parents were born in Africa.

Scholar’s Undertaking: At the end of each month scholars must send the Foundation 10,000 new words that they will have written over the course of the month. Scholars are also asked to donate to the MMF 20% of whatever they subsequently receive from the book they write during the period of their Scholarship. This includes revenues as a result of film rights, serialisations or other ancillary revenues arising from the book written during the Scholarship period. These funds will be used to support other promising writers. The 20% return obligation should be considered a debt of honour rather than a legally binding obligation.

Proposed Work: The candidates should submit a description of between 400 – 1,000 words of the work they intend to write. The proposal must be for a full-length book of no fewer than 80,000 words. The MMF does not accept proposals for collaborative writing or short story collections. The proposal should be for a completely new job, not a work in progress, and must be in English.

Please note that if you are shortlisted for a Morland Writing Scholarship, you will be asked to send us a 3,000 – 4,000 word “chapter” of the book you are proposing to write on your scholarship year to help the judges assess your ability. Writers will be notified that they are on the shortlist at the end of October. Shortlisters will then have 15 days to return the sample “chapter”. In view of that, please do some advance thinking about the sample “chapter” you will have to provide if you are shortlisted.

Benefits

Scholars writing fiction will receive a grant of £18,000, paid monthly over the course of twelve months. At the discretion of the Foundation, Scholars writing non-fiction, who require additional research time, could receive an additional grant, paid over a period of up to eighteen months

Eligibilities

Eligibility:

  • Open to anyone writing in the English language who was born in Africa, or both of whose parents were born in Africa;
  • To qualify for the Scholarship a candidate must submit an excerpt from a piece of work of between 2,000 – 5,000 words, written in English that has been published and offered for sale.

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 email at least 10,000 new words every month until they have finished their book, or their Scholarship term has ended. If the first draft of the book is completed before the year is up, payments will continue while the Scholar edits and refines their work.

Eligible Regions: Africa

Application Process

Applicants must enclose the following all five things to confirm their submission.

  1. A submission of between 2,000 to 5,000 words as a Word document of work that has been published and offered for sale. Please send proof of publication.
  2. A description of between 400 – 1,000 words about the new book you intend to write.
  3. A scan of an official document showing that you, or both of your parents, were born in Africa.
  4. A brief bio of between 200 – 300 words.
  5. Please tell us how you heard about the Morland Writing Scholarships.

Please upload the five requested documents to Miles Morland Foundation’s FileInvite site, where they will be processed. In order to do this, please click on the blue box that reads ‘Morland Writing Scholarship Application’ on any page of the website. You will be asked to fill in your name and email address and ‘send’. You will then automatically receive an email to your inbox instructing you on how to upload the documents that make up your application.

Application Deadline: September 18, 2021

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