Boyds Mills Scholarship Success Stories
Crystal Allen: Do Something With It
When Crystal Allen received a scholarship and attended her first workshop with Boyds Mills in 2005, she tried to thank Kent (our founder) when she met him. He appreciated the sentiment, but was more concerned with how she'd use her scholarship from the Foundation to...
These are your people, and this is your place
We just received a lovely email from Chelsea Tornetto, workshop attendee and scholarship recipient, and it was so nice we just had to share it with our community. She wrote: "I attended the PB&J session in 2018, and it had a huge impact on me. I am currently...
From Scholarship to Workshop to Book with Traci Sorell
In 2017, Traci Sorell received a scholarship to attend the Novels in Verse workshop at Boyds Mills. You might think, perhaps, that this story will be about the novel in verse she worked on there. But it's not, for the most part. While attending that workshop and...
Scholarship Thanks: Exactly Where I Was Supposed to Be
By Rebecca Jordan-Glum James Ransome was a professor of mine at Pratt Institute many years ago and told me about Boyds Mills workshops. I couldn’t afford to go because I had been working for several years on a picture book I was writing and illustrating that had yet...