Welcome to the Royal Literary Fund

The Royal Literary Fund is a British charity that has been helping authors since 1790, among them James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Edith Nesbit. We provide grants and pensions to writers in financial difficulty: novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters and translators. If you are a commercially published writer facing money problems, we may be able to  help.
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We also run education programmes where writers deploy their talents for the wider benefit. Our Fellowship scheme funds writers to work one-to-one with university students. We also provide writing development workshops to schools and our community projects nurture resilience, engagement and empowerment.
Education programmes >

In response to the impact on writers’ incomes of the current situation, we have made significant donations to the emergency fund for writers administered by the Society of Authors.
Authors’ Emergency Fund >