Hawthornden Foundation is proud to have funded the following organizations
2025
826 National, San Francisco, California, United States of America
826 NYC, New York, New York, United States of America
The Abbotsford Trust (Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction), Melrose, Scotland, United Kingdom
Action for Hope, Amman, Jordan, Brussels, Belgium, and Beirut, Lebanon
African Poetry Book Fund (Brown University), Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
African Writers Trust, Kampala, Uganda
Archipelago Books, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
The Arvon Foundation, London, England, United Kingdom
The Authors’ Guild Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America
Baldwin for the Arts, Brewster, New York, United States of America
Beyond Borders International Festival (Traquair House), Traquair, England, United Kingdom
Black Portraiture(s) (New York University), Los Angeles, California, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America
Borders Book Festival, Melrose, Scotland, United Kingdom
Boyds Mills, Milanville, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The British Academy Book Prize, London, England, United Kingdom
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn College Creative Writing MFA (Brooklyn College Foundation), Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn Poets, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Caine Prize for African Writing, London, England, United Kingdom
Calabash International Literary Festival (American Friends of Jamaica), Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica
Cambridge Literary Festival, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
CantoMundo (Arizona State University Foundation), Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Cave Canem, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Center for Black Literature (Research Foundation of the City University of New York), Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
The Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Center for the Art of Translation, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Charco Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
City of Asylum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Committee for Relevant Art, CORA, Lagos, Nigeria
The Conversation, a project of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England, United Kingdom
Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington, United States of America
Dalkey Book Festival, Dublin, Ireland
Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria
English PEN, London, England, United Kingdom
Equator, London, England, United Kingdom
FIL Ciudad de Nueva York (FILNYC), New York, New York, United States of America
First Story, London, England, United Kingdom
Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, England, United Kingdom
Foglifter Press, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Fundación Algo en Común, Cali, Colombia
Furthermore (J.M. Kaplan Fund), New York, New York, United States of America
Georgia Writers, Kennesaw, Georgia, United States of America
Give a Book, London, England, United Kingdom
Granta Magazine, London, England, United Kingdom
Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, United Kingdom, and Cartagena, Colombia
Hay Festival (Partnership with NBO LitFest), Nairobi, Kenya
Henley Literary Festival, Henley-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom
Indigenous Nations Poets (Woodland Pattern), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust, Harare, Zimbabwe
Jacana Literary Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
Lambda Literary, New York, New York, United States of America
Ledbury Poetry, Ledbury, England, United Kingdom
Library of Africa and The African Diaspora, Accra, Ghana
The Litquake Foundation, San Francisco, California, United States of America
London Centre for the Humanities, London, England, United Kingdom
The London Library, London, England, United Kingdom
Macondo Literary Festival, Nairobi, Kenya
Mara Brock Akil’s Writers’ Colony Foundation, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award at SOAS University of London (Chapel & York US Foundation), London, England, United Kingdom
The Markaz Review (Muslims for Progressive Values), Greater Southwest Asia and North Africa
Moleskine Foundation, Milan, Italy
Momus (Global Impact), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
n+1 Magazine, New York, New York, United States of America
National Centre for Writing, Norwich, England, United Kingdom
National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina, United States of America
National Poetry Centre, Leeds, England, United Kingdom
The National Theatre, London, England, United Kingdom
NDN Girls’ Book Club, Oklahoma, United States of America
New Writing South, Brighton, England, United Kingdom
New York Institute for the Humanities, New York, New York, United States of America
New York University in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Oxford Conference for the Book from the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Paines Plough, London, England, United Kingdom
Palestine Festival of Literature, London, England, New York, New York, and Ramallah, Palestine
The Paris Review, New York, New York, United States of America
PEN Belarus (PEN International), Minsk, Belarus, and Warsaw, Poland
PEN International, London, England, United States of America
PEN Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Pfumo Collective, London, England, United Kingdom
The Poetry Lab (The Arts Area), Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Poetry London, London, England, United Kingdom
Poetry Society of America, New York, New York, United States of America
Poetry Wales, Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom
Poets & Writers, New York, New York, United States of America
Poets House, New York, New York, United States of America
PREE Literature, Kingston, Jamaica
The Queen’s Reading Room, London, England, United Kingdom
The Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival, a program of The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Santa Maddalena Foundation, Florence, Italy
Schools’ Laureate (University of Oxford), Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Schwarzman Centre Cultural Programme (University of Oxford), Oxford, England, United Kingdom
SCRUM Theatre Collective, London, England, United Kingdom
South Asia Speaks, Greater South Asia
StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Stratford Literary Festival, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, United Kingdom
Tamer Institute for Community Education, Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York, New York, United States of America
Transit Books, Berkeley, California, United States of America
Transition Magazine, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Type Media Center, New York, New York, United States of America
Urban Word NYC, New York, New York, United States of America
The Wesleyan Center for Prison Education, Wesleyan, Connecticut, United States of America
Wigtown Book Festival, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
Wimbledon Book Festival, London, England, United Kingdom
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Words Without Borders, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
World Poetry Books, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
WritersMosaic from the Royal Literary Fund, London, England, United Kingdom
ZOEGLOSSIA, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
2024
826 National, San Francisco, California, United States of America
826 NYC, New York, New York, United States of America
The Abbotsford Trust (Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction), Melrose, Scotland, United Kingdom
Archipelago Books, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
The Authors’ Guild Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America
Baldwin for the Arts, Brewster, New York, United States of America
Beyond Borders International Festival (Traquair House), Traquair, England, United Kingdom
Borders Book Festival, Melrose, Scotland, United Kingdom
Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn College Creative Writing MFA (Brooklyn College Foundation), Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn Poets, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Cambridge Literary Festival, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Cave Canem, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Center for Black Literature (Research Foundation of the City University of New York), Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
The Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
City of Asylum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
City of Asylum/Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Committee for Relevant Art, CORA, Lagos, Nigeria
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, New York, New York, United States of America
Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington, United States of America
Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Koprivshtitsa and Sofia, Bulgaria
English PEN, London, England, United Kingdom
Eyebeam Atelier, Inc., New York, New York, United States of America
First Story, London, England, United Kingdom
Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, United Kingdom, and Cartagena, Colombia
Hay Festival (Partnership with NBO LitFest), Nairobi, Kenya
Henley Literary Festival, Henley-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom
Indigenous Nations Poets (Woodland Pattern), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust, Harare, Zimbabwe
Jaipur Literary Festival, Jaipur, India
Kundiman, New York, New York, United States of America
Ledbury Poetry, Ledbury, England, United Kingdom
Library of Africa and The African Diaspora, Accra, Ghana
The Litquake Foundation, San Francisco, California, United States of America
London Centre for the Humanities, London, England, United Kingdom
The London Library, London, England, United Kingdom
Mara Brock Akil’s Writers’ Colony Foundation, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Markaz Review (Muslims for Progressive Values), Greater Southwest Asia and North Africa
Modern Poetry in Translation, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Moleskine Foundation, Milan, Italy
New York Writers Coalition, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
PEN Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
PEN International, London, England, United States of America
The Queen’s Reading Room, London, England, United Kingdom
South Asia Speaks, Greater South Asia
Stratford Literary Festival, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, United Kingdom
The Super Power Agency, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Transit Books, Berkeley, California, United States of America
Wigtown Book Festival, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
Wimbledon Book Festival, London, England, United Kingdom
Words Without Borders, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
WritersMosaic from the Royal Literary Fund, London, England, United Kingdom
ZOEGLOSSIA, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
2023
826 National, San Francisco, California, United States of America
A Public Space Literary Projects Inc., New York, New York, United States of America
The Abbotsford Trust (Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction), Melrose, Scotland, United Kingdom
Academy of American Poets,New York, New York, United States of America
Action for Hope,Etterbeek, Belgium and Amman, Jordan
African Books Collective (Pluto Educational Trust), Oxford, England, United Kingdom
African Writers Trust, Kampala, Uganda
Archipelago Books,Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Art Omi Inc., in partnership with One World Books, Ghent, New York, United States of America
Aura Estrada Prize (Mexican Cultural Institute of New York), Mexico City, Mexico
Baldwin for the Arts, New York, New York, United States of America
Beyond Borders International Festival (Traquair House), Traquair, England, United Kingdom
Black Portraiture(s) (New York University), Paris, France, and Venice, Italy
The British Academy,London, England, United Kingdom
Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn College Creative Writing MFA (Brooklyn College Foundation), Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Brooklyn Poets, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Caine Prize for African Writing, London, England, United Kingdom
Canto Mundo (Arizona State University Foundation), Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Cave Canem, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Center for Black Literature (Research Foundation of the City University of New York), Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
The Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Center for the Art of Translation, San Francisco, California, United States of America
City of Asylum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, New York, New York, United States of America
Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington, United States of America
Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
English PEN, London, England, United Kingdom
First Story, London, England, United Kingdom
Georgia Writers, Kennesaw, Georgia, United States of America
Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, United Kingdom
The Highlights Foundation Inc., Milanville, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Imbiza Journal for African Writing, Johannesburg, South Africa
Indigenous Nations Poets (Woodland Pattern), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust, Harare, Zimbabwe
Jacana Literary Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
Jaipur Literary Festival, Jaipur, India
Kundiman, New York, New York, United States of America
Lagos Book & Art Festival (Committee for Relevant Art), Lagos, Nigeria
Ledbury Poetry, Ledbury, England, United Kingdom
Library of Africa and The African Diaspora, Accra, Ghana
The Litquake Foundation,San Francisco, California, United States of America
London Centre for the Humanities,London, England, United Kingdom
The London Library, London, England, United Kingdom
Mara Brock Akil’s Writers’ Colony Foundation,Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Markaz Review (Muslims for Progressive Values), Greater Southwest Asia and North Africa
Modern Poetry in Translation,Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Moleskine Foundation, Milan, Italy
National Book Foundation,New York, New York, United States of America
The National Poetry Series Inc.,Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
New York Writers Coalition, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Oxford Conference for the Book at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
PEN International, London, England, United States of America
PEN Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
The Poetry Lab (The Arts Area), Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Poetry Society of America, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Queen’s Reading Room, London, England, United Kingdom
Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Seagull Foundation for the Arts (Seagull Books), Calcutta, India
South Asia Speaks, Greater South Asia
The Super Power Agency, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York, New York, United States of America
Urban Word NYC, New York, New York, United States of America
WritersMosaic from the Royal Literary Fund, London, England, United Kingdom
ZOEGLOSSIA, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
2022
Center for Fiction (Mercantile Library Association of New York), Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, United Kingdom
Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur, India
Royal Society of Literature, London, England, United Kingdom
The Society of Authors, London, England, United Kingdom
2021
Academy of American Poets, New York, New York, United States of America
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, New York, New York, United States of America
Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur, India