These scholarships offer various amounts for assisting authors in professional development as horror writers. There are various amounts and requirements. They have Diversity Grants, which open on 1st August, worth $500 each, which “will be open to underrepresented, diverse people who have an interest in the horror writing genre, including, but not limited to, writers, editors, reviewers, and library workers. … the Diversity Grants have adopted the broadest definition of the word diversity to include, but not limited to, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabled, and neurodiverse.” There is also the Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for Nonfiction Writing, the Dennis Etchison Young Writers Scholarship, and Young Adults Write Now endowment program for libraries. The funds can be used for various things like course fees, resources like textbooks and guides, subscriptions for appropriate periodicals, and registration fees for relevant literary festivals.
(The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly scholarship, worth $2,500, is for writers who identify as women, the Horror Writers Association scholarship, worth $2,500, and the Dark Poetry Scholarship, worth $1250, close on 1st August.)
Value: Various
Deadline: Varies
Open for: All writers
Details here.
(They also administer the Bram Stoker Awards for published works in various categories, which close end-November/end-December – see guidelines.
And, keep a lookout on the Speculative Literature Foundation website for upcoming grants; they usually open for the Working Class Writers Grant applications in September and the Gulliver Travel Research Grant in November; both grants pay $1,000 each.)