Royal Literary Fund

Founded in 1790, the RLF (Royal Literary Fund) is a UK charity that helps writers in financial need and annually delivers over 5 million in grants, education, and outreach programmes. The RLF offers a range of grants to professional writers needing short-term to long-term financial support who might be in debt, facing reduced income or unable to write due to a change in circumstances, sickness, disability, or age. For over two centuries and through our commitment to supporting literary excellence and representation in contemporary writing, we have been able to support many writers who have gone on to produce some of their most influential and best-known works, including Anna Burns, Margaret Busby, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Elizabeth Jennings, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Mustapha Matura, Edith Nesbit, Mervyn Peake, Monique Roffey, Ali Smith, Bram Stoker, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dylan Thomas and Antonia White. RLF Education is our commitment to advancin...