The Horror Writers Association offers four writing scholarships and grants. *Currently accepting! The Horror Writers Association Deadlines for both awards are March 15, 2016. Winners will receive $1,000 and invitation to their awards ceremony. The Unpublished Writers Awardis for unpublished authors and the Aspiring Author Award is for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors attending a historically black college or university. This nonprofit organization that promotes authors of the Black African Diaspora has two annual prizes for US citizens of African descent. Applications are currently closed, but will probably open early 2017. There are several recipients of this grant each year, as well as smaller Promise Awards for applicants whose work may not qualify, but still displays skill and potential. The Sustainable Arts Foundation aims to assist writers supporting families, awarding $6,000 to writers, poets, and playwrights with at least one child under the age of eighteen. *Currently accepting! The Sustainable Arts Foundation But this year’s deadline is soon-March 15, 2016. The stipend is $5,000 per month for a total of $20,000, plus housing and university privileges at Brown University. This fellowship is for academics, independent scholars and creative writers (including screenwriters and performing artists) who are working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830. The fellowship award supports two months of research and two months of writing. *Currently accepting! John Carter Brown Fellowship All grants are anonymous and there are no deadlines, they accept applications throughout the year. As an “emergency fund,” it is not for supporting an author’s work, but for assisting them in a time of need. The Woodcock Fund, available since 1989, is for Canadian authors who have experienced unforeseen financial crisis. The Writers’ Trust of Canada Woodcock Fund Currently, they are accepting applications for the Older Writers Grant-applications are accepted through March 31-but make sure to check their website for all dates and eligibility. Their latest two grants are the Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds, which each intend to foster diversity in speculative fiction. The Older Writers Grant is for writers over fifty starting out in their careers (two given at $500 each) the Gulliver Travel Research Grant gives $800 for travel coverage for research the Working Class Writers Grant gives $750 to a working class, blue-collar, poor, and/or homeless spec fic writer. The SLF gives several grants each year targeting traditionally underrepresented writers. PEN/America also has a great list of other translation-related grants, awards, and residencies on their site. Applications are currently closed, but will open again in mid-2016. Recipients will be awarded between $2,000 and $4,000 for the completion of a translated work. The purpose of the PEN/America Heim Translation Fund Grant, which was established in 2003, is to promote the publication and reception of translated book-length world literature in English. Here are some grants from a range of organizations, including genre organizations, arts foundations, and national trusts. Whether you’re an emerging or established writer, grants can be the crucial tool you use to finish a project, deep dive into research, or get a helpful leg up.
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