Grant opportunity
African Liberty Writing Fellowship 2026
African Liberty's writing fellowship develops young African writers interested in public policy, liberty, governance, markets, and ideas with regional relevance.
- Funder
- African Liberty
- Application deadline
- Application deadline: May 31, 2026
- Award
- Writing training, mentorship, publication support, and platform exposure
- Applicant
- Young writers and commentators
- Discipline
- Governance, Policy & Society
- Region
- Africa
- Posted
- May 22, 2026
Call summary
Overview
The fellowship helps young African writers strengthen public policy and opinion writing through guided learning, feedback, and publication opportunities.
Who can apply
- Applicants should be emerging African writers, commentators, or public thinkers who meet the official age, writing, and participation requirements.
- Applicants should review African Liberty's call page for the required writing sample and application materials.
What it supports
- Policy writing, liberty, governance, markets, civic ideas, and evidence-informed public commentary.
- Mentorship, editorial development, publication opportunities, and network-building for selected fellows.
Funding and duration
The fellowship provides training, mentorship, publication support, and platform exposure according to the official call.
Application deadline
Application deadline: May 31, 2026
How to apply
Apply through the official African Liberty fellowship page by 31 May 2026.
Call details
About the opportunity
The fellowship helps young African writers strengthen public policy and opinion writing through guided learning, feedback, and publication opportunities.
African Liberty lists this opportunity for Young writers and commentators, Governance, Policy & Society, Africa.
This listing is written for researchers, students, universities, NGOs, research teams, policy professionals and academic institutions searching for Governance, Policy & Society grants, fellowships, scholarships, conferences, workshops and funding opportunities in Africa contexts.
Eligibility
Applicants should be emerging African writers, commentators, or public thinkers who meet the official age, writing, and participation requirements.
Applicants should review African Liberty's call page for the required writing sample and application materials.
Funding and benefits
The fellowship provides training, mentorship, publication support, and platform exposure according to the official call.
Themes and supported activities
Policy writing, liberty, governance, markets, civic ideas, and evidence-informed public commentary.
Mentorship, editorial development, publication opportunities, and network-building for selected fellows.
Deadline and timeline
Application deadline: Application deadline: May 31, 2026.
Applicants should confirm the exact deadline time, time zone, required documents, portal steps and any institutional approvals on the official call page before submitting.
How to apply
Apply through the official African Liberty fellowship page by 31 May 2026.
Before applying, check eligibility rules, budgets, attachments, page limits, partner requirements, cost-share conditions and whether the opportunity uses an expression of interest, full proposal, registration or nomination stage.