With the goal of helping all communities in the UK and Republic of Ireland tell their stories through writing, the Amazon Literary Partnership supports not-for-profit literary organisations that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive.
The grant funding is intended for innovative groups that amplify diverse voices and strive for a lasting impact on writers’ lives, the literary and publishing communities and broader society. (Amazon has provided neither the total amount of funding available or the level of individual grants).
Last year, 37 literary groups across the UK and the Republic of Ireland received a grant. Beneficiaries included organisations dedicated to amplifying voices that are not usually heard and groups that engage children with expressing themselves through writing. A list of previous winners can be found on the Amazon Literary Partnership webpage.
To be eligible, applicants must be registered no-profit organisation in the UK or Republic of Ireland, whose core mission is to develop emerging writers, support diversity, celebrate storytelling, and/or build authors’ careers. Organisations should be structurally and financially sound; display energy, passion, and reach; have an online presence, and an enthusiastic membership or readership.