# Amazon Literary Partnership offers grants to literary charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/12/15/amazon-literary-partnership-offers-grants-to-literary-charities/
- Published: 2020-12-15T15:23:43+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Amazon Literary Partnership is seeking applications for its second year of providing
grants to UK literary organisations.**

The Partnership has operated in the USA for more than 10 years, providing more than
$13 million in funding to hundreds of organisations. It expanded to the UK earlier
this year. This new round of funding is for activities in 2021, with grant recipients
being notified by 14 May 2021.

It provides grants to literary organisations “to help empower writers, helping them
tell their stories and find readers, no matter what age or stage in life they find
themselves”. In particular it aims  to support “innovative groups that amplify diverse
voices and strive not only for a lasting impact on writers’ lives, the literary 
and publishing communities but also our broader community.”
 

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## First UK recipients

In 2020, the ALP supported eight UK writing groups from local and national organisations
that run after-school clubs, writers’ retreats and creativity workshops. In addition
it made grants to organisations that campaign on freedom of speech and to protect
authors’ rights. You can read [about the recipients](https://blog.aboutamazon.co.uk/in-the-community/supporting-writing-in-the-uk-the-amazon-literary-partnership-opens-for-2021-grant-applications)
on Amazon’s Day One blog.

Applicants must be “a registered nonprofit organisation in the UK”, whose core mission
is to develop emerging writers, support diversity, celebrate storytelling, and/or
build authors’ careers.
[Applications from charities for 2021 grants](https://apply.amazonliterarypartnership.co.uk/submit)
from the ALP are open until 29th January 2021.  

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