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Project Sleep’s Jack & Julie Narcolepsy Scholarship is a national scholarship program to support students with narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia. Students must complete an application form that includes a response to the esssay question: "If you could go back in time and speak to yourself on the day you were diagnosed, what would you say? Write a letter to yourself on that day."
Categories: Personal Essay
Organization: Project Sleep
Deadline: April 01, 2025
Recipients: 30
Top award: $1,000
The Dr. Yoji Kondo Scholarship may be awarded to a candidate of any gender majoring in engineering, math, biological or physical sciences, or “science fiction as literature” as an eligible field of study. Applicants must submit a 500-1,000 word essay on one of several scientific topics. Winners are announced on July 7th each year.
Categories: Research, Personal Essay, and Critical Essay
Organization: The Heinlein Society
Deadline: April 01, 2025
Recipients: 1
Top award: $4,000
The Dr. Jerry Pournelle Scholarship may be awarded to a candidate of any gender majoring in engineering, math, biological or physical sciences, or “science fiction as literature” as an eligible field of study. Applicants must submit a 500-1,000 word essay on one of several scientific topics. Winners are announced on July 7th each year.
Categories: Research, Personal Essay, and Critical Essay
Organization: The Heinlein Society
Deadline: April 01, 2025
Recipients: 1
Top award: $4,000
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
The AAF-Greater Evansville awards scholarships to deserving high school and/or college students yearly in April. To be eligible, students must plan to pursue a career in advertising, marketing, public relations or graphic design. Application varies yearly but includes various education details and personal statements.
Categories: Journalism and Personal Essay
Organization: American Advertising Federation of Greater Evansville
Deadline: April 19, 2025
Recipients: 3
Top award: $1,500
The INCIGHT scholarship is open to students in Washington, Oregon, and California who have a documented disability. Applicants must complete two detailed essay responses (video essays also welcome) in order to be eligible. The number of awards and total amount awarded will be determined during the selection process, and winners will be notified in June. INCIGHT Scholars are required to complete either 30 hours of community service or volunteer at one INCIGHT event.
Categories: Personal Essay
Organization: INCIGHT
Deadline: April 15, 2025
Additional awards: Multiple awards of varying amounts will be given
Recipients: 50
Top award: $2,500
The Marguerite Young Endowment Fund was established at The Pittsburgh Foundation to provide scholarships for students who plan to study theology. Candidates must be attending a Protestant seminary as a master of Divinity candidate, preparing for full-time ministry and/or be a seminary intern at a Protestant Church. Application must includes proof of this, as well as a personal essay.
Categories: Personal Essay
Organization: The Pittsburgh Foundation
Deadline: April 01, 2025
Additional awards: Multiple awards of varying amounts will be given
Recipients: 10
Top award: $1,500
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
At the Better Business Bureau (BBB), we believe it is never too early to introduce and emphasize the importance of ethics. Students will write essays on an ethical issue that they faced and how they handled it. Essays should analyze what ethics has taught the students and themselves. The most engaging essays often reflect on a meaningful experience or lesson learned in one’s life that focuses on an ethical reflection.
Categories: Personal Essay
Organization: Better Business Bureau
Deadline: March 01, 2025
Additional awards: 4 additional awards of $1250, $1000, $750 and $500 respectively.
Recipients: 1
Top award: $1,500
Students who are Muslim or active members of the Muslim community may apply for the Islamic Scholarship Fund. The ISF awards multiple scholarships each year ranging from $3,000-$10,000, though the amounts and number of recipients will vary. Students must submit applications including essay questions, work samples, and letters of recommendation, and must also be majoring in an ISF-supported field related to media or politics.
Categories: Personal Essay
Organization: Islamic Scholarship Fund
Deadline: January 01, 2025
Additional awards: Multiple awards of varying amounts will be given
Recipients: 10
Top award: $10,000
Sub Pop Records is offering a grand total of $18,000 in college scholarship money to three eligible high school seniors. To apply, you must submit an essay, one page or less, using any combination of the following questions as a guide (or write something completely your own, be inspired and creative!). Please list the school you are graduating from and the school you plan to attend in the fall at the top of your essay along with your contact information.
Categories: Personal Essay and Nonfiction
Organization: Sub Pop Records
Deadline: March 19, 2025
Recipients: 3
Top award: $6,000
The Ursinus College Creative Writing Award is a $40,000 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, we are looking for an unusual perspective, for quirky brilliance, for a voice. Candidates must achieve admission to Ursinus.
Categories: Critical Essay, Nonfiction, Novel Writing, Personal Essay, Playwriting, Poetry, and Short Fiction
Organization: Ursinus College
Deadline: January 03, 2025
Recipients: 1
Top award: $40,000
We now offer fully-funded tuition for our 101-day How to Write a Novel course to promising writers with financial need. Writers are invited to submit a 1,000-word writing sample along with a 300-word personal statement explaining their interest in a scholarship.
Categories: Novel Writing
Organization: Reedsy
Deadline: July 27, 2025
Recipients: 3
Top award: $1,250
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