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Best Writing Scholarships in 2024

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Since 1970, RTDNF has awarded more than $1 million in scholarships and fellowships to more than 500 young journalists. Scholarships are open to college students pursuing careers in radio, television, or digital journalism. To apply, students must complete an online form for each scholarship including their cover letter, resume, and 3-5 work samples.

Categories: Journalism

Organization: Radio Television Digital News Foundation

Deadline: January 11, 2025

Additional awards: Multiple awards of $1,000-$6,000 will be given

Recipients: 1

Top award: $10,000

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The Anna Chennault Scholarship awards $5,000 to an Asian American graduate student pursuing journalism as a career. Candidates will be judged on academic and journalistic achievement, commitment to the field of journalism and sensitivity to AAPI issues. Applicants must produce a piece of concise and comprehensive journalism that provides unique context on a current geopolitical issue based on a prompt provided by CIC or AAJA.

Categories: Journalism

Organization: Asian American Journalists Association

Deadline: January 16, 2025

Recipients: 1

Top award: $5,000

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The Mary Quon Moy Ing Memorial Scholarship will award up to $2,000 to a graduating high school senior who will be attending a college or university to pursue a journalism career. A winner will be selected based on academic and journalistic achievement, financial need, commitment to journalism and/or sensitivity to AAPI issues. Applicants must submit a resume, brief personal statements, and optional work samples.

Categories: Journalism and Personal Essay

Organization: Asian American Journalists Association

Deadline: January 16, 2025

Recipients: 1

Top award: $2,000

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We want to know…what do you dream about? Whether it's some bizarre dream you had last week, or your hopes for the future, share your dreams with us for a chance to win $1,500 for college. Response should be limited to 250 words or less.

Categories: Personal Essay

Organization: Unigo

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Recipients: 1

Top award: $1,500

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We award small artist support grants ($500 – $2,000) to individual feminist women in the arts who are citizens in the U.S and Canada. We welcome applications from women artists and writers who exhibit high quality and originality, use feminism as their central interpretive lens, and validate and express intersectional views.

Categories: Journalism, Personal Essay, Critical Essay, Short Fiction, Novel Writing, and Poetry

Organization: Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Recipients: 1

Top award: $2,000

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The Josephine De Karman Fellowship Trust was established in 1954 by the late Dr. Theodore Von Karman in memory of his sister, Josephine. DeKarman fellowships are open to PhD students in any discipline, including international students, who are currently enrolled in a university located within the United States.

Categories: Research

Organization: Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Recipients: 8

Top award: $25,000

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The purpose of the Norma Ross Walter Scholarship is to provide financial assistance to female graduates of Nebraska high schools who plan to enroll as English majors in accredited colleges or universities. Applicants must be female high school seniors who are prospective first year college students and plan to continue their education as English majors.

Categories: Critical Essay

Organization: Willa Cather Foundation

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Additional awards: $2,500 for second place, $2,000 for third place

Recipients: 1

Top award: $3,000

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The winner of this award receives $2,000, an invitation to accept the award at our annual awards ceremony, promotion on our website, and a feature of their work in our journal and quarterly newsletter. Candidate must submit a 5-to-10 page story or essay on one of the chosen topics. Candidate must also be entering the sophomore, junior or senior year in the fall at any HBCU in the US.

Categories: Critical Essay and Personal Essay

Organization: Go On Girl! Book Club

Deadline: February 01, 2025

Additional awards: Invitation to awards ceremony, promotion through website and publications

Recipients: 1

Top award: $2,000

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This award is our opportunity to encourage and celebrate a writer who has not been published. The winner of this award receives $1,000, an invitation to accept the award at our annual awards ceremony, promotion on our website, and a feature of their work in our journal and quarterly newsletter. Applicant must email an original, unpublished fiction work (short story or novel excerpt) not to exceed 2,000 typed words on double-spaced pages

Categories: Short Fiction and Novel Writing

Organization: Go On Girl! Book Club

Deadline: February 01, 2025

Additional awards: Invitation to awards ceremony, promotion through website and publications

Recipients: 1

Top award: $1,000

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Arts for Life! annually awards $1,000 scholarships to 25 graduating high school seniors in Florida who demonstrate excellence in creative writing, dance, drama, music or visual art. To apply, students must submit a completed application, a brief essay explaining “how the arts have positively influenced my life,” and a portfolio of work in creative writing, dance, drama, music, or visual art.

Categories: Personal Essay, Short Fiction, Screenwriting, Playwriting, Poetry, and Portfolio

Organization: Foundation for Excellence in Education

Deadline: February 05, 2025

Recipients: 25

Top award: $1,000

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Receive up to $15,000 in funding and join a community of more than five hundred alumni now teaching in higher education. Applicants must submit all required materials including personal statements, academic writing samples, and an essay responding to the question: "What is the relationship between liberal education and a free society?”

Categories: Research, Personal Essay, and Critical Essay

Organization: Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Deadline: February 09, 2025

Additional awards: Multiple fellowships will be given

Recipients: 10

Top award: $15,000

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The Davidson Fellows Scholarship awards $50,000, $25,000 and $10,000 scholarships to extraordinary young people, 18 and under, who have completed a significant piece of work. Application categories are Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Literature, Music, Philosophy and Outside the Box. Literature applicants must submit a 60- to 75-page portfolio displaying a number of literary styles and genres.

Categories: Personal Essay, Short Fiction, Novel Writing, Screenwriting, Playwriting, Portfolio, and Poetry

Organization: Davidson Institute

Deadline: February 14, 2025

Additional awards: Additional fellowships of $25,000 and $10,000

Recipients: 4

Top award: $50,000

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This scholarship is awarded to daughters of career-commissioned officers in the United States armed services. The selection will be based on both merit and financial need. The application process includes: an essay, a secondary school report, a letter of recommendation from a member of the applicant’s community, and a Student Aid Report (SAR).

Categories: Personal Essay

Organization: The Daughters of the Cincinnati

Deadline: February 15, 2025

Additional awards: Scholarships are spread over four years

Recipients: 1

Top award: $20,000

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The AAJA Sports Task Force offers a scholarship of up to $2,000 to current college students interested in pursuing sports journalism/media as a career through the Al Young Sports Journalism scholarship. Applicants must submit a resume, cover letter, and essay on the assigned topic.

Categories: Journalism

Organization: Asian American Journalists Association

Deadline: February 15, 2025

Recipients: 1

Top award: $2,000

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The Porter Fleming Literary Competition honors the memory of Porter Fleming, one of Augusta, Georgia’s leading citizens and foremost philanthropists. The Porter Fleming Literary Competition consists of four categories — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and one-act play — and awards $7,000 in cash awards, distributed evenly across these categories.

Categories: Short Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Playwriting

Organization: Morris Museum of Art

Deadline: February 16, 2025

Additional awards: 4 second place prizes of $500 each, 4 third place prizes of $250 each

Recipients: 4

Top award: $1,000

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