$1,000 Scholarship for Writers OPEN NOW! + Our Book Club Picks for the Rest of 2024
Also, happy yellow stickers for you!
Hello, Protagonists! In this post, you’ll find:
✍🏼 $1,000 Scholarships for Aspiring Writers - Applications are LIVE!
📚 Our Book Club Picks for the rest of 2024
☀️ Free stickers for you— they are happy and yellow and sure to put a smile on your face!
✍🏼 CREATIVE. INSPIRED. HAPPY Mid-Career Writing Scholarship - Applications NOW OPEN!
Thanks to our incredible community, we have two scholarships available! (I personally funded one, and the rest was funded by paid subscriptions to CREATIVE. INSPIRED. HAPPY. You’re all so amazing!!)
Two (2) winners will be awarded $1,000 each
Application deadline: December 31, 2024
Winners announced: January 31, 2025
The CREATIVE.INSPIRED.HAPPY Mid-Career Writing Scholarship is a scholarship for an aspiring writer not currently in a professional writing career*, for use toward furthering their education in writing, such as continuing education or community college courses on writing.
This scholarship is open to aspiring writers in any field, including fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Open internationally.
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*What counts as “a professional writing career”? I answer that below in the Comments. (tl;dr I’ll review applications on a case-by-case basis.)
»NOTE: Stay tuned, a Scholarship for High School Seniors is coming in the Fall!
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📚 Book Club for Writers & Curious Readers
Our Book Club Picks for the Rest of 2024
»If you’re new to the Book Club for Writers & Curious Readers, we read books and discuss them through a writer’s lens—plot arcs, pacing issues, character development, and more! You can find all our past discussion topics and meeting video replays HERE.«
Livia B. helpfully let me know that sometimes, holds for books at her library are many, many weeks long. Thanks to her suggestion, I’m previewing our book picks for the rest of the year, so that you can add them to your TBR now.
(More details about specific discussion topics will come in each month’s Book Club Invite.)
July: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
August: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
September: Bookish People by Susan Coll (skipping because I’ll be in Denmark for a book festival!)
October: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
November: No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
December: Break! (Maybe we’ll do a virtual holiday get-together, just for fun?)
☀️ GIFT FOR YOU: Happy Yellow Stickers & New Autographed Bookplates!
Surprise! I had these cute bookplates and CREATIVE. INSPIRED. HAPPY stickers made for you!
If you’d like one, just hit reply to this email (or email me: evelyn@creativeinspiredhappy.com) with your name and mailing address (including country if outside U.S.)
xoxo ~evelyn
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Quick question: how are you defining "writing professionally"? When I was restacking, I realized I didn't know how to describe that. I assume you didn't mean making any money at all, but where is the boundary?
appreciate you taking the time x