Society of Authors
Free to Apply
Closing: 1st March 2026
The K Blundell Trust awards grants of £2,000–£3,000 to British authors under 40 whose work aims to increase social awareness. Open to fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and script projects, this fund supports work-in-progress for authors who have previously had a commercially published work as sole author.
Applicants must be under 40 on 1st March 2026, British by birth, and currently resident in the United Kingdom. Grants support one work-in-progress only. Hybrid and self-published books are not currently eligible, nor are editors, AI-generated works, or applications for publication/promotion/production costs.