Next week Wednesday our $1000 Older Writers Grant opens to the public. If you are at least fifty years of age, and you’re starting out on your writing career, then you are welcome to apply! It’s free, easy, and straightforward! Visit bit.ly/olderwritersgrant to learn more about the grant and its guidelines.
EDITING TO ADD: Hi, folks. SLF director, Mary Anne Mohanraj, here. This grant has received far more visibility than any of our other grants (that we’ve given for 20+ years, giving out over $100,000 in funds so far). I think that must be due to the conversation over this graphic pushing the post up in the Facebook algorithms. (Not a deliberate strategy on our part, I promise you!)
As a result, I suspect our volunteer jurors are going to get flooded with subs this time around, which will be an interesting challenge for us; we may need to take a little more time to read before announcing a winner this year. We’ll see! Please be patient with us, and note that we’re mostly volunteer run, with a few part-time staffers.
But let me take this opportunity to note that if you’re eligible for this grant, you’re probably eligible for other grants of ours — at least the travel grant, which is open to all. We also have diversity grants, a working class writers’ grant, and a S. Asian grant (given in memoriam of a father who loved literature). We hope you apply.
And if you’re seeing this and are in a financial position to join as a member ($30 / year), details are on our website, and membership growth is the best way to help us continue giving out more grants into the future. I’d love to have a strong enough base that we could offer multiple Older Writers’ Grants every year, for example. Something we’re working towards. If you’re interested in donating a larger sum towards a new grant, or towards one of our existing grants, please get in touch!
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