Boyds Mills Scholarship Success Stories
Scholarship Helps Johari Mitchell Find Confidence to Independently Publish Her Picture Book
UPDATE December 2023: Johari's book Sweet Fire was chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Indie Picture Books of 2023! Johari J.P Mitchell's passion is cultivating freedom through creativity, courage and community. Her superpower is helping others to link vision...
Working On a Novel in Verse and Finding Community Thanks to a Scholarship
With the support of our Asian & Asian American Storyteller Scholarship, Đenise Hạnh Huỳn attended our 2022 In-Community Retreat for AAPI Kidlit Creatives. Below she shares some of her highlights from the retreat. Đenise's Story Đenise is a poet, educator, and...
Karen Lindeborg Finds a Full Circle Moment With Her Jane Yolen & Heidi EY Stemple Scholarship
Educator and writer Karen Lindeborg has been building her craft since 2011, attending SCBWI conferences and taking Boyds Mills workshops. In 2022, she was awarded the Richard H. Bill Scholarship for Educators and used it to attend Getting Your MG or YA Novel Unstuck,...
Former Educator Marie Tang is Convinced That Teachers, Books and Laughter Can Change the World
Marie Tang received a General Scholarship and used it to attend Start Now: Plotting Your 2023 YA or MG Novel with Sona Charaipotra, Dante Medema and editor Trisha Tobias. Marie says "Well, I've started. I will be submitting an outline to Trisha Tobias. I'm very...
With Scholarship Help, Writers Make Discoveries at Our Whole Novel Workshops
Boyds Mills Whole Novel Workshops offer writers the rare opportunity to have the entire draft of a novel read with written feedback and private consultation. It also offers presentations and community-building specifically designed for novelists at this stage in their...
3 Pre-Published Writers Found Scholarship Help to Keep Improving Their Craft
Scholarship recipients Monica Moncrieffe Bennett, Alison Merz, and C. Bernadette Jarapa haven't been published yet--but all of them are on their way, thanks to their experience at a Boyds Mills workshop. Monica's Story Monica is a lover of books of all kinds. Her...
Camellia Koo Finds Her Community of Writers, Thinkers, and Feelers at Summer Camp
Camellia Koo joined us for this year's Summer Camp in Fiction supported by a General Scholarship. She says the scholarship "was incredibly meaningful to me and my still very new pursuit in this dream of being a picture book author-illustrator. It was a beautiful and...
Lee Bennett Hopkins Scholarship Recipient Genielysse Reyes Finds Validation as a Poet
Genielysse Reyes attended this year's Crafting Novels in Verse Workshop and Retreat with support from our Lee Bennett Hopkins Scholarship for poetry writers. Genielysse's Story Genielysse Reyes is a Filipino American children's book author and artist from San Diego...
With Scholarship Help, Naomie Laurent Explored Opportunites to Pursue Writing Full Time
Naomie Laurent was awarded The Brown Bookshelf Scholarship and says it "allowed me the ability to pursue an in-person workshop that would have otherwise been out of my current budget. I recently stepped back from my current job to try to pursue writing full time and...
How Maria Marianayagam’s Online Scholarship Boosted Her Confidence
Maria Marianayagam says of her scholarship experience with us: "I want to say a HUGE thank you! This scholarship meant so much to me. Not only did it further my own craft, it gave me a confidence boost to move forward in this career." Maria's Story Maria took her...