{"id":66313,"date":"2025-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/?p=66313"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:21:03","slug":"k-blundell-trust-work-in-progress-grants-for-british-authors-under-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/opportunities\/k-blundell-trust-work-in-progress-grants-for-british-authors-under-40\/","title":{"rendered":"K Blundell Trust Work-in-Progress Grants for British Authors under 40"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5f079da5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0.4rem;padding-bottom:0.4rem\"><strong>Society of Authors<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e406bfd8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e406bfd8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-base-2-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-634247182ef332b941ae02fa8a1f113f has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4e74fbfd wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:6px;background-color:#48ae34;padding-top:0.3rem;padding-right:0.5rem;padding-bottom:0.3rem;padding-left:0.5rem\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Free to Apply<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-accent-5-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-accent-5-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"margin-top:0.6rem;margin-bottom:0.6rem\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-35904e51 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-17124a9a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"opp_deadline has-small-font-size\">Closing: <strong><strong><strong><strong>1st March 2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The K Blundell Trust awards grants of \u00a32,000\u2013\u00a33,000 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-b03bdb05 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/societyofauthors.org\/grants\/kblundelltrust\/?utm_source=zealous.co&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=featured_opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apply<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apply by 1st March 2026 for K Blundell Trust grants. \u00a32,000-\u00a33,000 for British authors under 40 with previous commercial publication working on fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or scripts increasing social awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-post-opportunity","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66314,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66313\/revisions\/66314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}