Writers Studio and the ACC Foundation are proud to offer a Tuition Scholarship for Creative Writing classes to qualified students.  Selection made by Writers Studio Committee.

check back for spring semester deadline for Fall 2012 scholarship. ACC Writers Studio Scholarship Applications due Room M4665

Writers Studio is committed to helping its writing students flourish.  This year, Writers Studio will award two scholarships to our exceptional students. One scholarship will be awarded this fall for spring 2012 and one scholarship will be awarded this spring for Fall 2012. Each scholarship will cover the cost of tuition and books for a creative writing, literature or humanities course at ACC.

1. Scholarship requirements:   
   1.  Enrollment must meet at least half time status which is equal to 6 credit hours per semester
   2. Completion of Creative Writing I (ENG 221) or currently taking ENG 221 and passing
   3. GPA of 3.0 or above at ACC
   4. Submission of a 500 word essay describing your background in writing and how this scholarship will assist you with your personal or professional goals.
   5. Submission of a portfolio with a minimum of five pages of creative work which may include: selection of prose from fiction, nonfiction, screenplay or play, or poetry.

Scholarship winners will be selected by the Writers Studio Committee. For more information, please contact Dr. Kathryn Winograd at kathryn.winograd@arapahoe.edu.

Click here for Application form.  Application forms are also available on the Writers Studio bulletin board on the 4th floor and outside Room M4665.

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Writers Studio and the ACC Foundation are proud to announce the winner of this Fall's Writers Studio Student Scholarship:  Hannah Allen 

ACC Writers Studio is pleased to announce the winner of the Writers Studio Student Scholarship for Spring 2012: ACC Student  Hannah Allen. The panel was unanimous in its decision.

Hannah will receive tuition credit for a course in creative writing, humanities, or literature and money to cover the cost of books in that course. She will also be the honored guest of the Writers Studio Spring Literary Festival on Saturday, April 21.

Comments from the Scholarship panel

Hannah Allen brings a passion for fiction to every classroom discussion. She enjoys the work itself, from a reader's perspective, but even more importantly, she's intensely interested in how and why writers achieve the effects they do with certain stories. This leads her to theoretical questions that underlie the making of stories at a level not typically seen in undergraduate creative writing workshops. Hannah is a student for whom the study of writing is sure to take her to deep and fascinating places.

Her work is rich and surprising, imbued with strong voice and lyricism.

From Hannah's bio: The money I have behind me is all my own and each decision I make is my own as well.  I hae built myself from the ground up, and as a result I know to never take an opportunity for granted.  In the face of all the horros that life has set before me, I have felt capable.  Productive. Armed.  I breathe because I can writer.  And the act of writing--its emotional and intellectual demands--certainly has not eased since first grade.  If anything it's become far more difficult to explore everything possible between borderless lines of text.  Wielding language as a means of self-expansion, inspiration, discover, and fulfillment, I grow and grow each day.

The Spread of Ideas, Contagions  by Hannah Allen

(from her Scholarship Application)

            In wandering heavy cinderblock halls and tall, bolt-studded walls, I have revisited the recklessness of words. They carom, reeling, veering and teetering off low ceilings and afternoon readings. The turn of colors, trees all anew, and the arrival of opportunity – fresh with dew.

            My third semester in the cinderblock palace and I have summoned the gumption to submit this. I have worked silently, famelessly at honing my craft and found myself daft, but without outlet. I labor and writhe, laboring to strive, and have been rewarded solely by soul fulfillment.

            My second semester in the cinderblock palace and I reclaimed my identity as a writer. I was renewed in the act and found that, in fact, I had much to say after all. Poems stories words glory, they gushed from me – holy holy. I hid them in stacks plied by thumbtacks in drawers where no one would see.

            My first semester in the cinderblock palace and my pockets were wholly empty. Without, in doubt, I worked two jobs to pay. It paid off. Lacking in time and with so few dimes, I found only margins in which to scratch.

            Since, in the heft of new joys, I have flourished.

            How delicious, the thrill, of toying with wills, of bleeding moral longitude and honesty with quills. The formation of characters, the believability of their forms. The arc of a theme, elegant as a dream, opening across pages unplanned. In the whirl of wind I have found within, I have visions of worlds beyond cinderblocks.

            My intention? Transfer to broader worlds, a broader universe, university. Publication, affirmation, the spread of ideas in irregulation. Works of fiction, rich in their diction – circulating, unemulating, new. I endeavor to tremor at the hands of new glamour, in the face of an industry riddled with the disingenuous. I wander, unearthing my characters – their beauty in the marred, the scarred; the march of the tenuous. I seek to find them each, all within my reach, much easier with dimes I have not.

            Between my gnarled knuckles, the shaft of a pen, aimed at all I can't see.