The Penny Wilkes Scholarship
in Writing and the Environment
Faculty teaching Creative Writing classes nominate fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by both graduate students and undergraduates submitted for their classes, and a jury of faculty members selects the winners. Ideally, three winners representing the three genres and both grads and undergrads each receive a $350 award.
Penny Wilkes, writer and professor of creative and nature writing at National University, created The Wilkes Scholarship in Writing and the Environment, an award, she explains, for "writing that has some connection to the environment and that shows a human relationship to the environment, which is especially important in this day and age when we really need to get back to nature." Penny Wilkes is the author of Flying Lessons and Whispers from the Land.
Application Process
- Submission deadline in late Winter term.
Selection & Award
Four prizes will be distributed the following Spring term and are paid through Student Accounts (balances due may be subtracted from the award amount.)