Boyds Mills Scholarship Success Stories
Scholarship Recipient Navigates Career Next Steps with Support at Boyds Mills
Omar on campus with S.K. AliFrom Omar's time on campusThanks to funding from the Doris Duke Foundation (DDF), Boyds Mills is able to host programming to support Muslim Storytelling through 2025. Through the Building Bridges Program, DDF works to elevate U.S. Muslim...
Scholarship Recipient Makes Significant Progress on a Middle Grade Draft + New Community Connections
Nancy So Miller with Executive Director George Brown in front of the Art Wall. "Having the opportunity to write that story in a space where I felt accepted and that my story mattered meant a great deal to me." (Nancy So Miller) Nancy So Miller came to Boyds Mills...
Author-Illustrator Finds Support and Validation Through a Scholarship and Personal Retreat
Andrea Cruz Floren (left) is pictured here on a personal retreat, with Zara González Hoang (center) and Executive Director George Brown (right). Zara was Andrea's mentor in the Las Musas mentorship program, and they were excited to share time together again at Boyds...
Cathryn Brenner: New Tools and Confidence in the Next Steps Toward Helping Young Readers & Mathematicians
Cathryn Brenner is a semi-retired elementary school teacher with a passion for supporting struggling young readers and mathematicians. The James Cross Giblin Scholarship helped her attend this year's Working Retreat for Nonfiction and Informational Ficton writers,...
Scholarship Helps Meg Eden Kuyatt On Path to a Novel In Verse
Meg Eden Kuyatt's forthcoming novel in verse, THE GIRL IN THE WALLS, is set to be published by Scholastic in 2025. But back in 2020, Meg nurtured her ideas with the help of a Boyds Mills scholarship. With that online course, and additional support from more...
A Visit to Remember: Valerie Bolling Uses Her Renée Watson Scholarship to Write 15,000 Words
Our friend and faculty member Valerie Bolling was the 2024 recipient of the Renée Watson Scholarship, which annually supports a week-long independent writing retreat for a Black woman writer. Valerie said: "This was the first time I have stayed at Highlights for an...
Creation & Connection: Scholarships Bring 4 Writers to Asian & Asian American Voices Retreat
Emily Sun Li, Meredith Seung Mee Buse, Parsa Choudhury, and Patricia Miranda joined us at Asian and Asian American Voices: an In-Community Retreat with scholarship support from Hawthornden Foundation and our General Scholarship Fund. "The experience was truly...
With Scholarship Support, Writers Make Discoveries at Writing Through Trauma In-Community Retreat
With scholarship support from Hawthornden Foundation and Rebecca Dykes Writers, Mitu Malhotra, Jess Rinker, 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....
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 Boyds Mills. In 2019, we established a...
Boyds Mills Awards Scholarships to 115 Storytellers Who Write and Illustrate for Kids
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2024 Boyds Mills Awards Scholarships to 115 Storytellers Who Write and Illustrate for Kids Honesdale, PA – Boyds Mills has awarded a record 115 scholarships to aspiring and established children’s authors and illustrators for use in...