Highlights Foundation Scholarship Success Stories
Creating Art Leads to New Manuscript Idea for Scholarship Recipient
With support from a PJ Library Scholarship, Dina Hodara attended the Working (Playing) Retreat: Artistic Play and Exploration. Dina told us that "creating art actually got my mind working on a new manuscript idea that I had been trying to work out for years! So...
With Scholarship Support, 4 Writers Make Discoveries at Writing Through Trauma In-Community Retreat
With scholarship support from Hawthornden Foundation and Rebecca Dykes Writers, Mitu Malhotra, Ashley Wilda (Ash), Celia W. Seupel and J.H. Ahn were able to attend Writing Through Trauma to Empower Readers: A Working In-Community Retreat for Storytellers. "THANK YOU....
Mentee Carries on Mentor’s Legacy: Floyd Cooper and Daria Peoples
Floyd Cooper Day (May 10, 2024) has a special meaning for us this year. Floyd was the award-winning illustrator and author/illustrator of nearly 100 books for children, and a long-time friend, faculty member and mentor here at the Highlights Foundation. In 2019, we...
Highlights Foundation Awards Scholarships to 115 Storytellers Who Write and Illustrate for Kids
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2024 Highlights Foundation Awards Scholarships to 115 Storytellers Who Write and Illustrate for Kids Honesdale, PA – The Highlights Foundation has awarded a record 115 scholarships to aspiring and established children’s authors...
#HFGather: 2024 Scholarship Celebration and Information Session
Update 2/1/24: our 2024 scholarship application period is now closed. To be informed of future scholarship opportunities, join the mailing list. #HFGather: 2024 Scholarship Celebration and Information Session Highlights Foundation Program Director Alison Green Myers...
The Highlights Foundation Will Award Scholarships Exceeding $125K in Value This Year
Update 2/1/24: our 2024 scholarship application period is now closed. To be informed of future scholarship opportunities, join the mailing list. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 17, 2024 The Highlights Foundation Will Award Scholarships Exceeding $125k in Value This...
From Virtual Summer Camp to Personal Retreat to Publication With Scholarship Support: Tonya Duncan Ellis
Tonya Duncan Ellis first joined us as one of the 24 Storytellers in our Amplify Black Stories program, co-sponsored with The Brown Bookshelf, and attended our Virtual Summer Camp in 2021. In 2023 she received The Brown Bookshelf Scholarship and used it to come to our...
How 2 Writers Used Their Scholarships to Sharpen Revision Skills
Meet Christiana Doucette and Zahra Raza! Both received General Scholarships in 2022 and chose to take revision workshops. Zahra took Line Editing Your MG or YA Novel with Jennifer Gennari, and Christiana took Revising Your Verse Novel with Cordelia Jensen. Both are...
Scholarships Helped These 2 Teachers Improve Their Storytelling Skills
We'd like to introduce you to Bay Collyns and Steph Jones, who both received General Scholarships to attend workshops in 2023. Both are teachers and want to, as Steph says, "write books that will inspire kids to want to be better people who change the world." Bay's...
With Scholarship Support, Rachel Werner Grows Her Passion Project: Expanding Inclusion in Narratives
Rachel Werner received a General Scholarship to attend the Getting to Know Your Picture Book in-person retreat in 2018. She says: "The Highlights campus quickly became a 'happy place' for me. The writing time, the food and the professional connections were immensely...
