Trans Women Write Scholarship
Honoring the contributions of the trans feminine community to the field of children’s literature. This scholarship celebrates trans women and trans femme authors and illustrators in every genre.
Applicants should be aspiring or emerging authors or author/illustrators, writing in any genre or format (fiction or nonfiction, picture books through young adult). Trans women bring crucial and unique perspectives to fiction and nonfiction, but are dramatically underrepresented even within the LGBTQIA2S+ community. The hope is that this additional support will allow more writers with these identities to establish themselves within the sphere of children’s and young adult literature.
Get more information about the scholarship process and apply here, or support the scholarship below.
To donate by check, make a check payable to: The Highlights Foundation, and send it to: The Highlights Foundation, 814 Court Street, Honesdale, PA 18431. You can reference the name of the scholarship fund in the memo line.