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GRANTS...

The free money everyone wants. Here you'll find grants that cover a simple conference fee or a six-month retreat to write and get away from it all. Some pay thousands for projects and others exercise your ability to match writing with a social cause. 

Regardless, these grants are legitimate. But like any market or contest, read the guidelines to make sure you fit the mold. While some of them are for big dreamers who face stiff competition, others provide new talent with opportunity. Find out why FundsforWriters is the specialist on grants available to freelance writers.

(These represent a sample of what we offer in our newsletter. You receive more than this entire list in one edition of TOTAL FundsforWriters, our paid subscription.) In the meantime, sign up for our free newsletters below. 



 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM AT EARTHDANCE
(PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIP/WORk-STUDY)
http://earthdance.net/waystobe.htm#artist
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This is a call to dancers, improvisers, visual artists, writers, and creators of all kinds. Do you have a piece that you have been dreaming of completing surrounded by the quiet of forested hills? Are you finishing your book or screenplay? Would you like to spend a month in rural western Massachusetts, surrounded by trees, land and sky? Earthdance offers artistic retreat residencies and the opportunity to share your teaching treasures by offering a weekly class to our residents and local community. In the residency, we provide room and board and at least four hours of studio time per day when available. The fee is $400 per month. We ask for three hours of work exchange and one class per week. We do not offer residencies in the summer months of June through August.

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ESPY RESIDENCY
http://www.espyfoundation.org/residents/index.html
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The Foundation's goal is to provide writers and artists of all genres from all over the world with an environment in which they can pursue their work without interruption. Residents share accommodations in bay view cottages in the serenely beautiful village of Oysterville, a National Historic District, located near the northern tip of the Long Beach Peninsula on the southwest coast of Washington State. Residents also receive a stipend for food. The month-long residencies are offered in March, June and October. Both emerging and established fiction writers, creative non-fiction writers, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, and composers are eligible for the residencies.

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FREE LEGAL SERVICES - FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL
E-mail - Lindsey Bowen at lbowenjr@gmail.com
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Fordham Law School is starting a free legal clinic for artists and anyone else with copyright, fair use, or other kinds of "information law" problems who can't afford a lawyer. The school is looking for clients for this program and is currently in the process of defining its scope of service. A potential funder wants the school to concentrate on issues that affect the public interest in the greater NY area. So theater, arts, small media, and small tech are very much on the radar. Also, any online projects. The school is particularly seeking to serve documentary filmmakers (or filmmaking groups) with fair use problems and bloggers with legal troubles. The goal is to have this program running by January 2009. E-mail if you are interested in using these pro bono legal services.

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 MARTHA BOSCHEN PORTER FUND
http://www.berkshiretaconic.org/Grantseekers/GrantApps/BoschenApp.pdf
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Supports artists in Connecticut. Has 50 grants for projects in the arts, to include writing. Applicants must have been full-time residents in the Berkshire Taconic region (Berkshire County, NA; Columbia County and northeast Dutchess County, NY; Northwest Litchfield County, CT) for two years prior to applying. Grants are $1,000 to $5,000. Deadlines February 1 and July 1 each year.

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 ELIZABETH GEORGE FOUNDATION
P.O. Box 1429, Langley, WA 98260
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Offers grants to unpublished fiction writers, published or unpublished poets, emerging playwrights, and organizations benefiting disadvantaged youth. Elizabeth George is a fiction/mystery writer. The application deadline for the first stage of the grant is June 15, 2008. Write to request guidelines.

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SANTA FE ARTS INSTITUTE EMERGENCY FUNDS
http://www.sfai.org/applications.html 
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As an outgrowth of our original Emergency Relief Residencies, SFAI has instituted an ongoing Emergency Relief Residency to provide residencies for artists and writers whose lives and work are compromised by domestic strife, political upheaval or natural disasters. Residencies are by application only.

In response to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, SFAI is ready to make available its facility to artists, writers and crafts people who lost homes, studios, art work or jobs.

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AUTHORS' CONTINGENCY FUND - UK
http://www.societyofauthors.org
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This fund makes modest grants to published authors who find themselves in sudden financial difficulties. Contact the Society of Authors for an information sheet and application form.

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NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND - UK
Phone 01306 887511
Fax 01306 888212
E-mail: enquiries@pressfund.org.uk
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Aims to relieve distress among journalists and their dependants. Continuous and/or occasional financial grants; also retirement homes for eligible beneficiaries.

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ROYAL LITERARY FUND
http://www.rlf.org.uk/
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The Royal Literary Fund is a British benevolent fund for professional published authors in financial difficulties.

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CHANGE EMERGENCY FUNDS
Change, Inc.
P.O. Box 54, Captiva, FL 33924 
Phone: (212) 473-3742 
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Awards of up to $1,000 for medical, living, or other emergencies. Open to artists of all disciplines, with no U.S. geographical restrictions; students are not eligible. Each applicant must submit a detailed letter describing the financial emergency, copies of outstanding bills, medical fee estimates, etc., and current financial statements, along with a career resume, exhibition or performance announcements, slides or photos of work and two letters of reference from someone in the affiliated field (no video tapes). Only complete applications will be accepted. Change, Inc does not issue more than one grant per person.

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LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN FOUNDATION
Diana Braunschweig, Exec. Dir.
4001 Inglewood Ave. Suite 101-309
Redondo Beach, CA 90278

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PO Box 510, Shelter Island, NY 11964-0510
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No telephone inquiries. We do not consider performing arts categories but grants in the fine arts (painting, sculpture, printmaking, etc. – NO digital/film/video/photography) and various literary arts (fiction, including playwriting, prose, poetry, and creative nonfiction) and for certain unaffiliated scholarly and/or research projects.  These are one-time grants to individuals only.  Deadlines are in mid-spring for submissions.

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PEN AMERICAN CENTER WRITER'S FUND
http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/251 
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The PEN Writers Fund is an emergency fund for professionally published or produced—writers with serious financial difficulties. Depending on the situation, the fund gives grants or loans of up to $1,000. The maximum amount is given only under especially dire circumstances and when monies are available. The PEN Fund for Writers and Editors with HIV/AIDS, administered under the PEN Writers Fund, gives grants of up to $1,000 to professional writers and editors who face serious financial difficulties because of HIV or AIDS-related illness. The Writers Fund does not exist for research purposes, to enable the completion of writing projects, or to fund publications or organizations. The Writers Fund Committee meets approximately every two months to review applications. 

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AUTHORS LEAGUE FUND - EMERGENCY FUNDS
31 East 32nd Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10016 
Main Phone: (212)268-1208 
Main Fax: (212)564-5363 
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The Authors League Fund was established by the Authors League of America, Inc., to help career authors and dramatists in the United States and in financial distress due to an urgent situation. The Fund makes interest-free loans to professional writers in need; for example, writers with health problems and inadequate health insurance, or older writers whose income has ceased. Loan-seekers must show need and documentation of their professional status. Method of contact: telephone, letter or email. 

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CLAYTON MEMORIAL MEDICAL FUND
c/o OSFCI
P.O. Box 5703
Portland, Oregon 97228 
http://www.osfci.org/clayton/index.html 
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The fund helps professional science fiction and fantasy writers living in the Northwest states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska deal with the financial burden of illness. 

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AMERICAN POETS FUND - EMERGENCY FUNDS
The Academy of American Poets
584 Broadway, Suite 604
New York, NY 10012-5243
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Assists poets of demonstrated ability who are in a state of urgent financial need. Grants cannot be used to promote or otherwise enhance literary talent or reputation, and applications are not accepted. Academy Chancellors, Fellows, and prize winners may bring the circumstances of qualifying poets to the attention of the American Poets Fund committee by sending a letter of nomination, including specifics about the nominee's current financial situation, to the Executive Director of the Academy. 

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POETS IN NEED
http://www.poetsinneed.org/ 
Emergency assistance to established poets who have a substantive published body of work.

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SFWA EMERGENCY FUNDS
http://www.sfwa.org/org/funds.htm
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The SFWA Emergency Medical Fund offers interest-free loans to
members facing unexpected medical expenses.

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SFWA LEGAL FUNDS
http://www.sfwa.org/org/funds.htm
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The SFWA Legal Fund makes loans available to authors who must take a writing-related dispute to court. Loans are made on a case-by-case basis, after review by the Grievance Committee and the SFWA attorney.

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WRITERS EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND 
(Formerly The Llewellyn Miller Fund of the American Society of Journalists and Authors Charitable Trust ) 
1501 Broadway, Ste. 302 
New York, NY 10036 
Tel: (212) 997-0947 
FAX: (212) 768-7414 
http://www.asja.org/weaf.php 
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Financial relief assistance to established, professional freelance writers of nonfiction books and magazine articles.
Must be elderly, ill, disabled, or facing an extraordinary crisis.

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WRITER'S TRUST WOODCOCK FUND - EMERGENCY FUNDS
90 Richmond Street East
Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario
M5C 1P1
416-504-8222 / F- 416-504-9090
http://www.writerstrust.com/ 
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Provides emergency funding for established writers in mid-project who are facing financial crisis. Since its inception, the Woodcock Fund has supported 103 Canadian writers in financial difficulty. The total amount dispersed to date is $380,000. 

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JOHN ANSON KITTREDGE EDUCATIONAL FUND.

c/o Key Trust Company of Maine, P.O. Box 1054, Augusta, ME 04332

Application Address, P.O. Box 382203, Cambridge, MA 02238-2203

Grants awarded to artists in very special circumstances. $1,000 - $10,000. Initial contact by letter stating purpose, amount requested, period of funding, supporting letter.

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