Allison Hong Merrill, a 2021 scholarship recipient (third from left) with three new friends — Cheryl, Melodie, and Jeannette — at HippoCamp 2021.
Each year, HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers offers writing conference scholarships (as many as we can afford!) to writers who require a little financial assistance to make the journey.
Thanks to our generous Friends (who donate monthly to support our work), and some wonderful individual sponsors, we were able to provide full and partial scholarship funds to 13 writers from all over the country this year!
We are so excited to welcome them to HippoCamp this year! Here’s our scholarship recipients for 2022:
Friends of Hippocampus Scholarship
Full registration + $200 travel stipend; open to all writers
- Parisa Saranj – Baltimore, MD
- Natalie Schriefer – Trumbull, CT
- Cassandra Lewis – Wilmington, DE – runner-up/partial scholarship
Writers of Color Scholarship
Full registration + $200 travel stipend; open to all writers of color
- Ishena Robinson – New York, NY
- Jade Jemison – Tampa, FL
- Jennifer Chong Schneider – Ridgewood, NY – runner-up/partial scholarship
Jean Snow Memorial Scholarship (Sponsored by Athena Dixon)
Full registration; open to unpublished writers of color
- Jamminia States – Augusta, GA
Work Hard, Not Smart Scholarship (Sponsored by Alexis Paige)
Full registration; open to neurodiverse writers
- Kristin Hugo – Danville, CA
- Veronica Cano – Decatur, GA – runner-up/partial scholarship
Brief Encounters Scholarship (Sponsored by Rae Pagliarulo and Aisha Wiley)
Full registration; open to flash CNF writers
- Eileen Collins – Rotonda West, FL
- Briana Feinberg – Philadelphia, PA – runner-up/partial scholarship
Memoir Your Way Legacy Scholarship (Sponsored by Joanne Lozar Glenn)
Full registration; open to unmentored writers
- Willa Bell – Elizabethtown, PA
- Xavier Trevino – New York, NY – runner-up/partial scholarship
Congratulations to all of our recipients. We can’t wait to meet you and see how HippoCamp 2022 inspires you!
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Look for details about conference scholarship opportunities for HippoCamp 2023 starting in the late fall.
HippoCamp, produced by the volunteer Hippocampus Magazine team, is now in its seventh year. Learn more about our past creative nonfiction conferences here.
