Tennessee's aspiring Young Writers need your help! An outstanding number of deserving students have applied for scholarships this year to attend the
TN Young Writers' Workshop. Please help support these creative young people today with your gift to assure they can attend this valuable Workshop experience.
All scholarships are needs-based, come from individual donors, and go directly towards helping a 7th-12th grader attend the Workshop. Your support gets them that much closer to realizing their potential as a writer.
If we can meet our goal -- $7,800 -- we can offer twelve deserving students a week that may change the course of their lives.
Any gift you can give will make a difference. A full scholarship is $650 for the entire week. This includes all room, meals, instruction, class materials, evening activities like, songwriters night, poetry night, and open mic night.
Scholarships are for Tennessee students only, but the Workshop attracts students from across the country. Give a gift of $50 or more we will send you the electronic 2012 anthology from this year's young writers. If you contribute $100 or more, we will send you this year's TYWW t-shirt to show your support!
Humanities Tennessee is committed to making sure that the TYWW is accessible to any student, no matter their background. More than half of the students who attend the Tennessee Young Writers' Workshop receive some form of financial assistance through the generosity of individual donors.
Thank you for supporting Tennessee's creative youth!
Click on the DONATE button to the right to earmark your gift to support a Young Writer or send a check, made out to Humanities Tennessee, to the address below.
The TYWW is a program of Humanities Tennessee, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible to the maximum extent provided by law.
The Inez Parrish Osborn Scholarship
In 2006, to show support of the TN Young Writers' Workshop, Humanities Tennessee board members Susie and Michael Osborn (Memphis) established the Inez Parrish Osborn Scholarship Endowment to enable at least one aspiring young writer in need to attend the TYWW. Each year a student is selected from among the scholarship applicants to receive the honor of being the Osborn Scholar for that year. The Osborns established the fund to honor his late mother. He believes she would have benefited from a program like the TYWW, had it been an option for her as a young person. He learned late in her life that she enjoyed writing, kept numerous journals and aspired to be a writer at one time.This student must show promise and potential as a writer and demonstrate an appropriate amount of financial need.
Inez Parrish Osborn Scholars
2012 - Dylan Hadden, Morristown
2011 - Sarah Key, Greeneville
2010 - Megan Collins, Camden
2009 - Charlie Miller, Midway
2008 - LaTasha Sanders, Chattanooga
2007 - Nate Cannon, Seymour
2006 - Melanie Williams, Oak Ridge
