Highlights Foundation Scholarship Success Stories
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 the...
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 Highlights Foundation scholarship. With that online course, and additional support from...
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...
Scholarships Enable 2 Writers to Retreat In-Community at the Jewish Symposium
With scholarship support from Hawthornden Foundation and the PJ Library Scholarship, Lisa Cloherty and Ariel Birdoff were able to attend the Jewish Symposium: An In-Community Gathering for Jewish Writers and Illustrators. Lisa says "THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I...
Creating Art Leads to New Manuscript Idea for Scholarship Recipient
With support from a PJ Library Scholarship, Dina Hodara attended the Working (Playing) Retreat: Artistic Play and Exploration. Dina told us that "creating art actually got my mind working on a new manuscript idea that I had been trying to work out for years! So...
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 the Highlights Foundation. In 2019, we...
Highlights Foundation Awards Scholarships to 115 Storytellers Who Write and Illustrate for Kids
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2024 Highlights Foundation Awards Scholarships to 115 Storytellers Who Write and Illustrate for Kids Honesdale, PA – The Highlights Foundation has awarded a record 115 scholarships to aspiring and established children’s authors...
