Writers' Bursaries 2011-2016

I came across this interesting list of writers who have collected bursaries from Literature Wales over the last few years.  The scale of subsidies is gradually dropping, but it is still £70,000 per year.  How well spent is all this taxpayers' money?  Good question -- the only way to answer that is to have another column with authenticated book sales in it -- but I don't suppose anybody is very interested in supplying that sort of information...... 

WRITING is the thing -- it is so sordid to think about sales, public demand and all that sort of thing, don't you think?

http://www.literaturewales.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Literature-Wales-Writers-Bursary-Recipients-2011-2016.pdf

Interestingly enough, none of this free money is available to self-published writers, on the basis that they are presumably not serious enough or skilled enough to satisfy Literature Wales.