2017 Morland Writing Scholarships still open
The Graywolf Press Africa Prize, a new literary award, is offering $12, 000 and a publishing deal to the winner of its first novel manuscript contest.
Grawolf is looking for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily residing in Africa, novels that are engaged with the current moment.
The inaugural prize will be judged by Igoni A. Barrett, author of the 2013 short story collection, ‘Love Is Power, or Something Like That’, and the 2015 novel ‘Blackass’, in conjunction with the Graywolf editors.”
Founded in 1974 and located in Minneapolis, USA, the award-winning Graywolf Press is committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature.
Graywolf Press is always looking for work that is distinctive, artistically singular, and of a high literary quality. For this prize,
Igoni A. Barrett, who lives in Nigeria, is a recipient of the Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. Submissions would open from The 2017 Morland Writing Scholarships to African writers is still open until October 31.
Annually, the Miles Morland Foundation (MMF) awards a small number of Morland Writing Scholarships to African writers. It opens the scholarship to anyone born or whose parents were born in Africa.
The foundation helps selected scholars produce the first draft of their completed book. Also, Scholars must write in English and have a published work.
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 nonfiction may receive a grant of up to £27,000, paid over a period of up to eighteen months. The Foundation provides the scholarships for the production of full-length adult fiction or non-fiction. Poetry, plays, film October 1 and close on October 31 2017. scripts, children’s books, and short story collections do not qualify.
The Foundation welcomes only fiction and non-fiction proposals and not academic or scientific research, or works of special interest such as religious or political writings.
During the scholarship, scholars are bound to submit by e-mail at least 10,000 new words every month until they complete their book or the scholarship. 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.
Scholars will receive an opportunity to be mentored by an established author or publisher, often after the Scholarship. MMF will not act as an editor or a publisher. Therefore, Scholars will need to find their own agents and publishers.
A panel of readers and judges will evaluate the submitted applications. They will judge the works purely on literary merit.