Highlights Foundation Scholarship Success Stories
3 Novelists Meet Their Manuscript Goals With Scholarship Support
We're excited to highlight three novelists who attended novel workshops with scholarships in 2023! Halli Gomez used her General Scholarship to attend Making Magic: Writing and Refining Magical and Fantastical Stories. Anne Spollen used her General Scholarship to...
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...
Studying Picture Book and Nonfiction Craft With Support from PJ Library Scholarship
Writers Jan Epstein Schwaid and Doreen Klein Robinson have both attended multiple workshops and retreats with the support of the PJ Library Scholarship. Both joined our community after successful non-kidlit writing careers and are now enthusiastic about continuing to...
Attending the Jewish Symposium with Support from the PJ Library Scholarship
We're grateful for our partnership with PJ Library, who supports the Highlights Foundation through the PJ Library Scholarship as well as bringing creatives to our Jewish Symposium and our Jewish Voices In-Community Retreat. They also sponsor PJ Summer Camp at the...
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 Highlights Foundation workshops. In 2022, she was awarded the Richard H. Bill Scholarship for Educators and used it to attend Getting Your MG or YA Novel...
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
The Highlights Foundation 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...
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 Highlights Foundation workshop. Monica's Story Monica is a lover of books of all...
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...
