Announcement: Mayborn For Free

To help identify and train up-and-coming narrative writers under the age of 40, George Getschow and two of the Mayborn's literary agents, David Patterson and Jim Hornfischer, have created three scholarships covering conference registration, the contest fee and up to three nights at the DFW Lakes Hilton Hotel and Convention Center. Professional writers working for newspapers, magazines, alt-weeklies, and other digital and print publishers are eligible. So are undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in writing programs (such as journalism, English, history, biography, MFA in Creative Nonfiction. etc) at the Mayborn and other universities around the country. Award winners will be selected by the donors and by three distinguished narrative writers. To be eligible for one of the three awards, candidates must submit two narrative stories (published in print or on-line), submit either a personal essay, a reported narrative or a book manuscript to the Mayborn's national writing contests and be able to attend the entire weekend of the Mayborn Conference July 18-20, 2014.

Click here for an application.