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The Armistead Maupin Creative Writing Scholarship
The Armistead Maupin Creative Writing Scholarship Fund was established in 2007 by Philip C. Smith in honor of Armistead Maupin. The purpose of the Armistead Maupin Creative Writing Scholarship Fund (hereinafter the Armistead Maupin Fund) is to encourage students whom, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, have authored material based, in large part, on LGBT themes, to develop their creative writing skills.
The Armistead Maupin Fund is administered through Equity Foundation. Students entering or pursuing post-secondary education in the liberal arts, literary arts or creative writing, at accredited colleges and universities in the Northwest of the continental United States (Oregon, Washington, Idaho), who are in need of financial assistance, are eligible to apply.
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
Fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) or poetry are available to published creative writers. Fellowships enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. This program operates on a two-year cycle. Individuals may apply only once each year. If you have questions about your application, please contact the Literature staff at 202/682-5034 or e-mail LitFellowships@arts.gov
Ursinus College Creative Writing Award or The J.D. Salinger Award Scholarship
The Ursinus College Creative Writing Award is a $30,000 per year major scholarship for creative writers of outstanding originality and potential. The award winner will have the honor of living in the dorm room once occupied by J.D. Salinger, who attended Ursinus. In the spirit of Holden Caulfield and Catcher in the Rye, they are looking for an unusual perspective, for quirky brilliance, for a voice, not necessarily the kind that can be measured by conventional standards.
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Students submit their works to regional programs of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and its Regional Affiliates. Students can earn opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication and scholarships. Across the country, more than 165,000 works will be reviewed by panels of arts professionals. More than 50,000 students will earn Honorable Mention, Silver Keys and Gold Keys in regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Works designated as Gold Keys will be forwarded for national-level review. Applicants are eligible for various scholarships found here.
Norman Mailer Creative Nonfiction Award
The Norman Mailer Writers Colony and the National Council of Teachers of English jointly sponsor the Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Awards. Norman Mailer produced extraordinary works in many genres, including the category of this year’s award. The awards are for excellence in creative nonfiction which is truth/fact-based writing with literary merit, work that features authorial voice and, often, personal experience, and often has a significant narrative quality. The competition is broadly inclusive of genres and subgenres that fall under creative nonfiction: memoirs, personal essays, literary journalism, artful writings about place, environment, travel, people, etc. Whatever its type, the best work will be true material presented with compelling literary merit.
Random House Inc. Creative Writing Competition
The Random House, Inc. Creative Writing Competition, the program awards more than $100,000 in scholarships to public high school students for original poetry, memoir, fiction, drama and graphic novel compositions. It brings together prominent New York City educators, teaching artists, community leaders, authors and industry professionals (including Random House, Inc. executives) to inspire, guide, read, judge, and celebrate the work of 1,200 student writers discovering their own unique voices.
Immensely popular writing workshops have continued since 1995 and are held in over 75 public high school classrooms. Appropriately titled the “WRITE NOW!” workshops, teaching artists share their work with students and then lead the class in accessible and fun exercises that produce new writing then and there. The sponsoring classroom teacher receives a four-lesson plan follow-up to the initial workshop that guide students to develop and finish a piece for submission to the competition. To inspire the teachers and provide the much needed enthusiasm and confidence many kids need to trust their own voices and write from their hearts, Random House, Inc. offers writing journals and complimentary books for students, as well as class sets of curriculum based books for teachers.
Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships
The Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship program is organized and administered by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, publisher of Poetry magazine. The Ruth Lilly Fellowships are among the largest awards offered to aspiring poets in the United States. Each Lilly Fellowship carries a $15,000 scholarship prize for fellows to use as they wish in continued study and writing of poetry.
Society for the Fine Arts Scholarships in Art, Creative Writing, Dance, Music, and Theatre
Five scholarships are awarded annually at the University of Alabama, one in each of the fine and performing arts areas of art, creative writing, dance, music, and theatre.
The Armistead Maupin Creative Writing Scholarship
The Armistead Maupin Creative Writing Scholarship Fund was established in 2007 by Philip C. Smith in honor of Armistead Maupin. The purpose of the Armistead Maupin Creative Writing Scholarship Fund (hereinafter the Armistead Maupin Fund) is to encourage students whom, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, have authored material based, in large part, on LGBT themes, to develop their creative writing skills.
The Armistead Maupin Fund is administered through Equity Foundation. Students entering or pursuing post-secondary education in the liberal arts, literary arts or creative writing, at accredited colleges and universities in the Northwest of the continental United States (Oregon, Washington, Idaho), who are in need of financial assistance, are eligible to apply.
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
Fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) or poetry are available to published creative writers. Fellowships enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. This program operates on a two-year cycle. Individuals may apply only once each year. If you have questions about your application, please contact the Literature staff at 202/682-5034 or e-mail LitFellowships@arts.gov
Ursinus College Creative Writing Award or The J.D. Salinger Award Scholarship
The Ursinus College Creative Writing Award is a $30,000 per year major scholarship for creative writers of outstanding originality and potential. The award winner will have the honor of living in the dorm room once occupied by J.D. Salinger, who attended Ursinus. In the spirit of Holden Caulfield and Catcher in the Rye, they are looking for an unusual perspective, for quirky brilliance, for a voice, not necessarily the kind that can be measured by conventional standards.
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Students submit their works to regional programs of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and its Regional Affiliates. Students can earn opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication and scholarships. Across the country, more than 165,000 works will be reviewed by panels of arts professionals. More than 50,000 students will earn Honorable Mention, Silver Keys and Gold Keys in regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Works designated as Gold Keys will be forwarded for national-level review. Applicants are eligible for various scholarships found here.
Norman Mailer Creative Nonfiction Award
The Norman Mailer Writers Colony and the National Council of Teachers of English jointly sponsor the Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Awards. Norman Mailer produced extraordinary works in many genres, including the category of this year’s award. The awards are for excellence in creative nonfiction which is truth/fact-based writing with literary merit, work that features authorial voice and, often, personal experience, and often has a significant narrative quality. The competition is broadly inclusive of genres and subgenres that fall under creative nonfiction: memoirs, personal essays, literary journalism, artful writings about place, environment, travel, people, etc. Whatever its type, the best work will be true material presented with compelling literary merit.
Random House Inc. Creative Writing Competition
The Random House, Inc. Creative Writing Competition, the program awards more than $100,000 in scholarships to public high school students for original poetry, memoir, fiction, drama and graphic novel compositions. It brings together prominent New York City educators, teaching artists, community leaders, authors and industry professionals (including Random House, Inc. executives) to inspire, guide, read, judge, and celebrate the work of 1,200 student writers discovering their own unique voices.
Immensely popular writing workshops have continued since 1995 and are held in over 75 public high school classrooms. Appropriately titled the “WRITE NOW!” workshops, teaching artists share their work with students and then lead the class in accessible and fun exercises that produce new writing then and there. The sponsoring classroom teacher receives a four-lesson plan follow-up to the initial workshop that guide students to develop and finish a piece for submission to the competition. To inspire the teachers and provide the much needed enthusiasm and confidence many kids need to trust their own voices and write from their hearts, Random House, Inc. offers writing journals and complimentary books for students, as well as class sets of curriculum based books for teachers.
Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships
The Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship program is organized and administered by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, publisher of Poetry magazine. The Ruth Lilly Fellowships are among the largest awards offered to aspiring poets in the United States. Each Lilly Fellowship carries a $15,000 scholarship prize for fellows to use as they wish in continued study and writing of poetry.
Society for the Fine Arts Scholarships in Art, Creative Writing, Dance, Music, and Theatre
Five scholarships are awarded annually at the University of Alabama, one in each of the fine and performing arts areas of art, creative writing, dance, music, and theatre.
