Opportunities

AWAY WITH WORDS – Writing Course and Workshop Series

28 July 2021 - 18 August 2021

Writer and editor Robin Pridy is leading a 4-week writing course this summer, as well as a series of one-off writing workshops. Booking is now open to both, with details beneath and also on Eventbrite. AWAY WITH WORDS WRITING COURSE WED EVES – 28 JULY, 4/11/18 AUG 7–8.30PM Have a little ‘holiday’ close […]
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Developmental Grant for Poet on Low Income with Arvon

Application Deadline:
7 August 2021 12:00 am

Arvon are offering a developmental grant to one poet on low-income in the form of 1-1 sessions. Read below to hear exactly what they’re offering. We are offering one lucky writer a grant that will offer them 6 1-1 sessions with the prize-winning poet Jen Hadfield. Perhaps you’re working on your first collection or […]
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Shifting the Gaze – round 2 applications open now

Application Deadline:
11 August 2021 12:00 am

Photo credits: Luke Walter, South Downs National Park Authority. In 2021, Writing Our Legacyis offering 15 bursaries of £500 to Black*, Asian or ethnically diverse writers in Sussex, Hampshire or the wider South East to research and develop new writing or project work with a focus on the landscape of South Downs National Park. […]
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Royal Literary Fund – Professional Writer’s Grants

Application Deadline:
31 August 2021 12:00 am

The Royal Literary are offering grants and financial support to writers in financial need. Writers who have had 2 works published (or scripts/ plays performed) commercially are eligible to apply. From the RLF’s website: Sometimes bad things happen to good writers. That’s why the Royal Literary Fund is here. From illness to bereavement, from […]
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Saveas Writers’ International Writing Competition 2021

Application Deadline:
31 August 2021 12:00 am

Horizons 2021 marks the centenary of T S Eliot’s visit to Margate, where he wrote part of The Waste Land while looking out on the sea from the Nayland Rock shelter. To celebrate Eliot, his work and the views from our coastline, SaveAs Writers launch their annual international creative writing competition, this year asking […]
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