MTSU Write
MTSU Write Application Process and Scholarship Information
Please submit the following items to Mary Leoson, MTSU Write Director.
- Cover Letter with your name, address, and email contact information.
- A writing sample. For poetry, send 3-5 poems (no more than 10 pages total). For prose, send 1-2 pieces of prose (fiction or nonfiction, ranging between 1-5 pages each, double-spaced). For play or screenwriting, send a 10 page excerpt from your play or screenplay. All samples should be in 12pt font, Garamond or Times New Roman.
- A resume listing educational background, applicable life-experience, and a list of publications, if any.
- A statement (12pt Garamond or Times New Roman type face, double-spaced) of your long and short term writing goals, what you intend to accomplish during your time with MTSU Write, why you think we are the right program for you, and why you are the right student for us. Write no longer than is necessary; we are looking to see how well you write, not how many words you can type.
MTSU Write is dedicated to helping you be the best writer you can be. We use the materials submitted less to determine your eligibility for the program and more to help us determine how best to be of service to you. Our passion is to grow writers; we don’t expect you to be perfect or published, only willing to grow as a writer.
Application Deadlines: students may begin work during any session they wish. Application deadlines for each trimester can be found on the schedule in the drop-down menu.
Tuition: Tuition is paid per session and must be paid in full prior to the start of any session. Tuition costs for fall and spring sessions – $1350.00 each. (This includes events, mentoring, and classes, but not books, materials, travel, or room rentals.) Summer session – $1100.00.
MTSU Write: Scholarships
MTSU Write is pleased to offer partial scholarships to new students applying to our mentorship program.
We hope to make scholarships availability an ongoing offering, but that is dependent on funding. If you鈥檇 like to fund a scholarship, please email us:聽[email protected]听辞谤听聽toward our scholarship fund.
Scholarship:
Partial scholarships open to any writer who claims financial need. Note that the maximum partial scholarship is $200 per term.
Scholarships will be awarded based on the clarity of the applicant鈥檚 statement of intent and promise of the writing sample, with the understanding that applicants are still developing as writers and come from a variety of backgrounds. The statement of intent will carry slightly more weight in decision making, as we have found that students with a clear writing goal in mind do best in the program. The director and a committee of current or former mentors will make scholarship decisions.
We hope to offer scholarships to returning awardees in subsequent semesters, provided they are progressing well toward their goals. However, such awards are not guaranteed and will depend upon our scholarship funding and programmatic priorities.
Scholarship awards will be announced along with notification of acceptance to the program.
Questions or Comments
Please send an email to [email protected].
