International travel fund for Scottish authors reopens
Scottish authors can now apply for up to £1,000 towards travel costs when they have been invited overseas to promote their work.
This fund from Scottish Book International has recently been on hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but is now open again for applications: full details and application form are available on the Scottish Books International website.
The types of things that this fund supports include:
- Invitations to be part of an event as part of a literary festival or at a literature or cultural organisation.
- Trips for publicity events to support publication of a work.
- Invitations for writers to present their work as part of trade fairs or conferences.
- Invitations to a residency or creative exchange overseas, where support for travel costs is sought.
Travel costs can include the cost of visas, where relevant. Priority is currently given to public-facing events that facilitate the promotion of a piece of work by the author.
As of 2022, the grant has supported 13 Scottish writers. Details of grants awarded are listed below:
- The Verb Festival, £1000, to bring Michael Pedersen to The Verb Festival 2019, New Zealand
- Hugh McMillan, £200, The Blash o God, France
- Brian Holton, £203.50, the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice and the Festival Internazionale di Poesia di Genova, Italy
- Laura Lam, £80, Worldcon Dublin, Ireland
- Chrys Salt MBE, £1000, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, Australia
- Wendy H. Jones, £500, Manuscript to Marketplace Writers Conference, USA
- Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, £1000, to bring Irvine Welsh to Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2019, Indonesia
- Christine De Luca, £400, Partilha Alternativa Association, Portugal
- Gerry Loose, £175, 3rd Chengdu International Poetry Week, the Round Table Conference of the World Poetry in Chengdu, China
- Kevin MacNeil, £1000, Yamanashi University, Japan
- Christie Williamson, £350, Festa dos Anos de Ã’Lvaro de Campos, Portugal
- Helen McClory, £1000, Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters, India
- Damian Barr, £630, Events at literature festivals in India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
For further information and to apply, please visit the Scottish Book International website.