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A literary scholarship is a scholarship, that is, a government grant is awarded as a promotion to authors. It is the center of attention, to promote literature, ie to give writers the opportunity to devote some time to the Constitution of literary works or a particular literary work as possible without financial worries.

Literature Scholarships are usually awarded by public authorities, governments, ministries of culture or local governments, in some cases, but also by private organizations, such as the Literary Colloquium Berlin. In particular, cities and municipalities awarded scholarships literature often in the form of residencies (keyword town clerk ).

The award of scholarships literature is usually via an application process. Authors must submit in accordance with the requirements imposed on them application material over which judges a jury to award the scholarship. The application material is usually composed of personal data, information on recent publications, a description of the conveyed literary project and sample texts.

Types of scholarships

Depending on the carrier can be promoted different literary genres or genre ( poetry / literature) s. For example, while the Literary Colloquium Berlin promotes novels, the Austrian playwright scholarship is aimed exclusively at playwrights. Travel grant are attached to the implementation of a journey that will serve the research and development of literary texts.

Public bodies, in particular ministries of culture, often provide a number of different literary scholarship. The Austrian federal government provides approximately a year round state scholarship for writers who can not look back upon an independent book publishing, an all-year working grant, short-term work scholarships and travel grants, a Rome Scholarship, which is connected to a stay in Rome in the funded author, a six- playwright scholarship that three -year-old Robert Musil scholarship for major literary projects, and the Mira Lobe scholarship for children 's and youth literature.