Congratulations to the winners of the 2023-24 Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarships for Creative Prose and Poetry! Spring Visiting Writer Jessie van Eerden, professor of creative writing at Hollins University, has selected Auvera Irving as the winner in Creative Prose for "Burn the House Down Slowly" and Sarah Teague as the winner in Poetry for "Boone in April," "When I die, spread my ashes in the theater number six," "Drunk in Belk Library at 4 AM," and "backyard blasphemy."
Runners-up were Isabel DuMond in Creative Prose and Kristian Brown in Poetry.
Auvera Irving and Sarah Teague will each receive a scholarship of $2310 for 2023-24.
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The Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarships in Creative Prose and Poetry are selected by competition open to rising or continuing juniors or seniors majoring in English with the Creative Writing Concentration. Manuscript applications are usually accepted in March each spring semester for the following year.
In Fall, manuscript applications for the Coe, Idol, and West scholarships in creative prose and poetry are open to all English majors, with one scholarship open to students of any major. That deadline is usually in October.
Please watch for future announcements of the upcoming competitions in this newsletter, in email announcements, and for notifications from the ASAP scholarship portal. Please note that applications for these awards are taken independently of general ASAP scholarship applications.
