Doris Hillis Scholarship Application Form

The Doris Hillis Scholarship provides one recipient with registration fees for the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s Facilitated Retreat. The scholarship is intended for a developing BIPOC Saskatchewan writer working on creating poetry or drama. For the purpose of this scholarship, a developing BIPOC writer will be considered as a practicing writer, who is Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour, in the early stages of their writing and has not yet published a book or equivalent.

Applicants will submit a 1-2 page letter, outlining their response to the following criteria:

1. Writing experience, including
   1. how long you have been writing
   2. Any professional development you have undertaken to date (which could include workshops, classes or degrees, immersive experiences like Sage Hill or Banff Centre, writing group membership, working with a mentor, editor or Writer-in-Residence, attending literary learning opportunities, etc.)
   3. Any publications, including the publications' name and genre
2. Please articulate clearly and persuasively the benefit of attending the Facilitated Retreat on Scholarship
3. How or whether receiving this scholarship reduces any barriers they may face in attending the Facilitated Retreat. This could include, but is not limited to, financial need.

Please submit this letter of application at the same time you are applying to the retreat.