2025 Scholarship -- Shelley Prose and the HWA Award
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IMPORTANT: This award can NOT be used to pay college tuition. Applicants need to show an active interest in writing horror/dark fiction or poetry, as the case may be.
You are applying for both scholarships with this form.
The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship may be awarded to a writer who identifies as a woman.
The HWA Scholarship may be awarded to any writer of any identity.
One cannot be eligible for the same scholarship, grant, or endowment 2 years in a row.
Rules — The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship and the Horror Writers Association Scholarship
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has established two $2500 Scholarships to assist in the professional development of horror writers:
- The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship,
- and the Horror Writers Association Scholarship.
The Scholarships are effectively two facets of the same award; applicants enter the same competition using the same application form. A sub-committee of the HWA Board chooses the scholarship winners from that pool of applicants. The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship is available for those members who identify as women and the Horror Writers Association Scholarship is available for any member, regardless of gender.
The Scholarships are made by possible by monies received by HWA from the Authors Coalition.
Deadline: Midnight, August 1 (Pacific Time)