Student Writer Scholarship
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Deadline: July 8.
To support outstanding students in the Summer and Winter Conferences for full-time university students. Qualifications: Applicants must be full-time students enrolled in an accredited educational institution, at least eighteen years old, and must be unpublished writers who don't have any contracts prior to receiving the award. Selection criteria: Selection will be one winner chosen from a graduate or doctoral program and one winner will be chosen from an undergraduate program. How to apply: Applicants must submit the following requirements short cover letter stating the reasons why applicants want to attend at the conference and a synopsis of their work; five-page sample of a manuscript; copy of the applicants' student ID and; letter of recommendation sent directly from a professor at the applicants' university; must be electronically submitted as one PDF and letters of recommendation can be sent separately as a Word document; and Label the subject of the e-mail "First Name_Last Name Application". Focus: Literature, Children's.