Miles Morland Foundation Writing scholarship offered for international writers and aimed to allow each participant the time to produce the first draft of a completed book. Moreover, the scholarship is allocated for everyone who is writing in the English language, which is living in Africa or their parents live in Africa.

Details:

Scholarship amount: 18000 £ monthly

Duration: 12 months

Deadline: 18 September 2020

Note: additional research will receive more supports. And it is possible to expand duration up to 18 months.

Qualification:

• Applicants must provide an excerpt from a piece of work about 2000 to 5000 words in English and published and offered for sale.
• The submission will evaluate by a professional jury based on literary merit and set up by the MMF.

Requirements:

• Applicants required to write during the year of their scholarship.
• They expected to submit at least 10000 new words every month up to completing their book, or their scholarship term has finished.
• The payment will continue if the scholars finished their work before the year is up.

Work proposed:

• Provide an explanation of writing intention between 400 to 1000 words.
• A proposal about a full-length book, no fewer than 8000 words.

Short biography:

• Describe yourself in 200 to 300 words, including your background. Shortlisted applicants will ask for more details and information.

Fiction or non-fiction:

• Both fiction and non-fiction proposals are eligible to apply. Poetry, plays, film scripts, children’s books, and short story collections are not eligible to submit.

How to apply:

Applicants can submit their works and required documents to scholarships@milesmorlandfoundation.com

For more information, the applicant can visit the MMF official website