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Writers’ Conferences & Centers is conducting its annual competition to provide scholarships for emerging writers who wish to attend a writers’ conference, center, retreat, festival, or residency. The scholarships will be applied to fees to attend any of the members of WC&C, an association of outstanding conferences, colonies, and festivals for writers.
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The competition is open to all writers who would like to attend a WC&C member program. To enter the competition, please follow the guidelines below. Two scholarships of $500 will be awarded.
2011 Judge:
Laura Kasischke is the author of seven novels and seven collections of poetry, most recently Lilies Without. Her novels include In a Perfect World, Suspicious River, and The Life Before Her Eyes, adapted for film. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts awards. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. Kasischke lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her husband and son.
Guidelines for Submissions:
- Submissions in fiction and poetry will be considered. Separate submissions in each genre are permitted.
- Writers’ names must not appear on submissions. A separate cover sheet must accompany submissions and include the following: Name, Address, phone number, email address, title, and genre. Please bind submissions by staple, binder clip, or paper clip. If you wish to be notified that your manuscript was received please include an SASE postcard.
- All manuscripts must be single-sided and typed. Prose must be double-spaced. A maximum of one short story (or novel excerpt) up 25 pages or 10 pages of poetry will be considered. Each new poem must start a new page.
- You may enter in more than one genre, and you may also enter multiple manuscripts in one genre, provided each manuscript is accompanied by its own entry fee.
- Former or current students of the judge are ineligible. Previous recipients of WC&C Scholarships are also not eligible to submit.
Submissions must be postmarked between December 1st and March 30th of each year. Please address submissions to:
WC&C Scholarship Competition
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
MS1E3, George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
A $10 reading fee, either a check or money order in US dollars made payable to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, must accompany all submissions. Winners will be notified by May 15th. All submissions should be accompanied by a SASE for notification of winners.
Two winners will receive $500 scholarships to attend a WC&C member program; funds are paid directly to the program selected. (Member conferences reserve the right to determine participants in their programs; winners select a first choice and two alternates.) Winners and finalists also receive a one-year individual membership in AWP.
2011 Scholarship Winners:
Poetry- James Arthur's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. His first book, Charms Against Lightning, will soon be published by Copper Canyon Press. During 2012, he will be in residence at the Amy Clampitt House in Lenox, MA. Fiction- Terri Scullen's short stories have appeared in Gargoyle, Pearl, The G.W. Review, The Baltimore Review, Literary Mama, Storyglossia, and the anthology, Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women. She is an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine.
2010 Scholarship Winners:
Poetry- Dilruba Ahmed attended the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair.
Fiction- Chidelia Edochie.
2009 Scholarship Winners:
Poetry- Celeste Doaks.
Fiction- Kelly Luce attended the Sewanee Writers Conference.
2008 Scholarship Winners:
Poetry- Christina Lovin attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
Fiction- Jeffrey Voccola attended the Prague Summer Program hosted by Western Michigan University.
2007 Scholarship Winners:
Poetry- Ching-In Chen attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop.
Fiction- Deirdra McAfee attended the Wesleyan Writers Conference.
2006 Scholarship Winners:
Poetry- Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman attended the Paris Writers' Workshop.
Fiction- Hosanna Patience attended the Tin House Writers' Conference.
2005 Scholarship Winners:
Poetry- Jillian Weise attended the Sewanee Writers Conference.
Fiction- Morgan McDermott.
2004 Scholarship Winners:
Poetry- J.W. Richardson attended the Santa Fe Writers’ Conference.
Fiction- Heidi Durrow attended the Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop.