Scholarships

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Create your own scholarship to the SFWC for only $1,000!

Writing is your passion and you want to help others pursue a writing career. Sound like YOU? Now you can select the recipients of a scholarship to the SFWC that you create.

We want to help as many writers attend the SFWC as possible, so we are offering a way for you to offer scholarships -- in your name, your company's name or anonymously. Each scholarship has a $1,000 value (cost of the event plus additional recognition for the recipient and you in the program.)

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Get an SFWC Student Scholarship

The SFWC is pleased to offer a limited number of one-day scholarships to San Francisco Bay Area high school students. The student scholarship winner must agree to be delivered by a parent or guardian to the SFWC Volunteer Coordinator in the volunteer room at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins Hotel by 9:00 am on Saturday, February 14, and picked up by a parent or guardian at 6:00 pm that same day.
Students may apply for a SFWC scholarship by sending us a double-spaced, 250-word essay on why books and writing are important. We would also like a sample of the student's work.
Send your essay and writing sample to SFWC Scholarships, 1029 Jones Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 or email it to Elizabeth Pomada at sfwriterscon@aol.com. Please include the name and address of your high school and a teacher contact. Additionally we need the student's address, phone number and email address.
The deadline for submissions is January 2nd each year. Feel free to email any questions to Elizabeth Pomada at sfwriterscon@aol.com.
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Get a Kevin Smokler Scholarship

Through the donation of his consultation fees at last year's conference, Kevin Smokler has generously agreed to pay the SFWC conference fees for two adult non-fiction writers for the following year's conference. Send your 250-word essay on why writing is important to Smokler Scholarships, 1029 Jones Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 or email it to Elizabeth Pomada at sfwriterscon@aol.com. Additionally we need your address, phone number and email address.
The deadline for submissions is January 2nd. Feel free to email any questions to Elizabeth Pomada at sfwriterscon@aol.com.

Get a Victoria Hudson MFA Scholarship

The Victoria A. Hudson MFA Scholarship will award a registration scholarship (a $495 value) to one Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction MFA student in Northern California to attend the San Francisco Writers Conference, February 12 – 14, 2010. Scholarship covers registration only. Students enrolled in a low-residency MFA program must live or have a permanent address in Northern California (Santa Clara county and north).

Entry deadline is December 20, 2009. There is no entry fee.

Send the following to enter:

* A short essay not to exceed 500 words that begins with the line “I write because...”

* A writing sample not to exceed 3000 words for fiction & nonfiction and no more than 3 poems or a total of 50 lines for poets – send your best, complete work as the Scholarship recipients will be published in the 2010 SFWC Anthology More Bridges. Work will not be returned.

* In one sealed envelope: A single page with your name, address, phone number and email address as well as your MFA program, name, email, and phone number of your MFA faculty advisor. A letter-sized SASE with proper first class postage.

VERY IMPORTANT: Write your driver’s license number on the bottom right corner of every page and the bottom right corner of the sealed envelope with your contact info inside.

If selected for the scholarship, you would like to add on to your registration Speed Dating for Agents, include in the sealed envelope a check for $50 payable to 2010 SFWC. If not selected, your check will be destroyed.

Mail your entry to: Victoria A. Hudson MFA Scholarships, P.O. Box 387, Hayward, CA 94543 before December 20, 2009.

You are encouraged to also enter the SFWC writing contest. See website for details, http://www.sfwriters.org/.

Get an Ellen Taliaferro, MD, Scholarship

The Ellen Taliaferro, MD, Scholarship Dedicated to the Prevention and Intervention of Domestic Violence and Abuse will be awarded to a writer who is writing as a survivor of domestic violence or an advocate or professional who is working with them. The scholarship will pay for a full registration to the 2010 conference and include a private appointment with a nonfiction editor and agent. There will be a small stipend to partially cover travel and accommodations.

The scholarship was created by Dr. Ellen Taliaferro, Project Director of the Health After Trauma Project, author of Well Writing For Health After Trauma and Abuse and co-author of The Physician's Guide to Intimate Partner Violence and Respond to Intimate Partner Violence - 10 Action Steps You Can Take to Help Your Patients and Your Practice.

"My goal in funding this scholarship is to highlight awareness to the issue of domestic violence assault, and in particular the issue of manual strangulation as a form of domestic violence physical abuse, through a domestic violence survivor or advocate or professional writing their story in the form of a nonfiction book or novel," said Dr. Taliaferro. She adds, "I chose the San Francisco Writers Conference for this scholarship because it excels in offering opportunities for writers attending the conference to interact with the faculty--authors, editors, agents and publishers."

Writers who wish to apply for the scholarship must submit a 250-word explanation of why they want the scholarship, four (4) pages of their work in progress, and a single-page proposal outline for their project. The story can be written as a personal story, memoir, nonfiction book or novel.
Contact information, including an email address, must be included with the entry.
The deadline for submissions is Dec. 1, 2009. Entries for The Ellen Taliaferro Scholarship should be sent electronically to Dr. Taliaferro via email at DrTSpeaks@gmail.com. If the applicant is unable to submit their application electronically, they can direct it to Dr. Ellen Taliaferro, c/o Health After Trauma Project, PO Box 152, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019. For questions, contact Dr. Taliaferro at 650-393-3660.

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If you want to donate to any scholarship fund, click here.

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Want to start a scholarship in your own name to reach a target group?

Contact Elizabeth at sfwriterscon@aol.com or Barbara at Barbara@SFWriters.org. Go to the Sponsorship page at www.SFWriters.org for details.

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