The PEN Writers Fund

The PEN Writers? Fund is an emergency fund for professional?published or produced?writers in acute, emergency financial crisis. The Fund gives grants of up to $2,000. The PEN Fund for Writers and Editors with HIV/AIDS, administered under the PEN Writers? Fund, also gives grants of up to $2,000 to professional writers and editors who face serious financial difficulties because of HIV or AIDS-related illness. The Writers? Fund is for writers whose primary professional occupation is writing. Self-published authors or those published by vanity presses are not eligible to apply. Next application deadline: March 16, 2007.