Highlights Foundation Scholarship Success Stories
Scholarship Recipients Celebrate Their Summer Camp Experience
Every year, some of our scholarship recipients attend one of our Summer Camps. We heard from 4 of last year's Camp attendees and wanted to share their experience: Debbie Meyer (Summer Camp in Illustration), Hallie M. Bertling (Summer Camp in Fiction), Jamie Ericson...
Monique Fields Found Creativity & Community Thanks to Her Renée Watson Scholarship
Monique Fields was last year's recipient of the Renée Watson Scholarship, which annually supports a week-long independent writing retreat for a Black woman writer. Monique says: "Without the scholarship, there is no way that I would have been able to take time off...
Floyd Cooper Scholarship Inspires 2 Author/Illustrators
Last year, Khahlia Sanders and LaTonya R. Jackson were both awarded Floyd Cooper Scholarships from the Highlights Foundation. Mentorship and community were both very important to Floyd Cooper. That’s why we established a scholarship to honor our friend and faculty...
Crystal Allen: Do Something With It
When Crystal Allen received a scholarship and attended her first workshop with the Highlights Foundation 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...
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 the Highlights Foundation. 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...
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 the Highlights Foundation workshops. I couldn’t afford to go because I had been working for several years on a picture book I was writing and illustrating...
