Highlights Foundation Scholarship Success Stories
From Virtual Summer Camp to Personal Retreat to Publication With Scholarship Support: Tonya Duncan Ellis
Tonya Duncan Ellis first joined us as one of the 24 Storytellers in our Amplify Black Stories program, co-sponsored with The Brown Bookshelf, and attended our Virtual Summer Camp in 2021. In 2023 she received The Brown Bookshelf Scholarship and used it to come to our...
How 2 Writers Used Their Scholarships to Sharpen Revision Skills
Meet Christiana Doucette and Zahra Raza! Both received General Scholarships in 2022 and chose to take revision workshops. Zahra took Line Editing Your MG or YA Novel with Jennifer Gennari, and Christiana took Revising Your Verse Novel with Cordelia Jensen. Both are...
Scholarships Helped These 2 Teachers Improve Their Storytelling Skills
We'd like to introduce you to Bay Collyns and Steph Jones, who both received General Scholarships to attend workshops in 2023. Both are teachers and want to, as Steph says, "write books that will inspire kids to want to be better people who change the world." Bay's...
With Scholarship Support, Rachel Werner Grows Her Passion Project: Expanding Inclusion in Narratives
Rachel Werner received a General Scholarship to attend the Getting to Know Your Picture Book in-person retreat in 2018. She says: "The Highlights campus quickly became a 'happy place' for me. The writing time, the food and the professional connections were immensely...
From Student to Faculty with Scholarship Support
We awarded Gloria Muñoz a General Scholarship to attend our Whole Novel Workshop in Historical Fiction a few years ago, and now we're welcoming her as faculty at our upcoming Virtual Whole Novel Workshop! Gloria's Story Gloria is a Colombian American writer and...
PJ Library Summer Camp Brings Jewish Creatives to the Highlights Foundation
We're grateful for our partnership with PJ Library, who supports the Highlights Foundation through the PJ Library Scholarship as well as sponsoring PJ Summer Camp at the Highlights Foundation, a program designed to bring more Jewish voices and authentic Jewish 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...
