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The Live Writing Fund
The Live Writing Fund has been established to assist writers of exceptional talent. The assistance we offer will take the form of giving small financial grants to assist with editing; sending writers on writing courses, or even be as down-to-earth and practical as sourcing computers and assisting writers so that they are able to do what they should be doing - write! A percentage of the editing and writing fees paid to the Live Writing team will go towards the fund, as will monies from donors and sponsors should we be able to encourage these.
Contribute to the Live Writing fund
The Live Writing team donates a percentage of money earned by editors and writers to the Live Writing fund. In the early stages as we begin to generate work and contracts we may only be able to assist one writer a year, maybe two. Hopefully this will grow, and as a community of writers we will be ab
Read more >>Grants and financial assistance
Live Writing received a grant from NAC: the National Arts Council of South Africa which has been especially valuable in helping to establish the Live Writing Fund.
The construction of this site was made possible with financial assistance from seda: the Smal
Epiphanie Mukasano
Epiphanie Mukasano, a Rwandan poet living in Vrygrond, Cape Town, is the first recipient of a grant from the Live Writing fund.
The financial assistance from Live Writing will pay for Epiphanie's poetry to be edited by Gabeba Baderoon, a highly acclaimed Sou