Royal Literary Fund

The Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is the world’s oldest literary charity dedicated to supporting professional writers in financial difficulty. Our mission is to enable writers to keep writing and to share their skills with others. Each year, the RLF distributes over £5 million through grants and a range of education, community, and workplace programmes. Our Fellowship scheme has created paid opportunities for more than 750 professional writers at over 100 universities and institutions across the UK, and our online magazine WritersMosaic is dedicated to celebrating and showcasing writers of the global majority. Through the support of many writers over the centuries, the RLF has been able to provide both short- and long-term hardship grants to writers, whether facing an unexpected bill, reduced income or unable to write due to a change in circumstances, sickness or disability. Beneficiaries have included Anna Burns, Margaret Busby, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Hanif Kureishi, DH Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Edith Nesbit, Mustapha Matura, Edna O’Brien, Mervyn Peake, Ali Smith, Bram Stoker and Dylan Thomas.