In honor of their significant contributions to the field of children’s literature, the Highlights Foundation has created scholarships in the name of each Artist-in-Residency who visited this year. Details about the five named scholarships are below.

2018 Laurie Halse Anderson Scholarship	2018 Kathryn Erskine Scholarship
2018 Matt de la Peña Scholarship	2018 Varian Johnson Scholarship
2018 Denise Fleming Scholarship

The Artist-in-Residency scholarships provide full tuition to qualified 2018 Highlights Foundation programs. Recipients are selected on two criteria: seriousness of purpose and financial need.