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Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship
18 September 2023
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.
Grant
Scholars writing fiction will receive a grant of £18 000, paid monthly over the course of twelve months.
Qualifications
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. This will be evaluated by a panel of readers and judges set up by the MMF. The work submitted will be judged purely on literary merit.
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 email at least 10 000 new words every month until they have finished their book, or their scholarship term has ended.