Marcus Second Year Graduate Student Scholarship

LIBERAL & CREATIVE ARTS
Scholarship awarded for the Fall semester

• Awarding Department: Creative Writing
• Scholarship Intent: For graduate students in any of the genres who have shown their commitment to rich and ambitious writing and translation. Students submit a work-in-progress that demonstrates attention to craft, cultural/social awareness, and the complexity of human experience. The recipient would also be a student for whom this award would make a significant difference in their ability to focus on their studies and their writing.
• Criteria:
  1) Open to graduate students who will be entering their second year.
  Students upload a work in progress and a brief description (no more than 200 words) of how this award would make a difference in their ability to focus on their studies and their writing.
  Along with the following:
  Playwriting Submissions: 20-40-pages.
  Fiction and Creative Non-fiction Submissions: 20 pages.
  Poetry Submissions: 10 pages.
  Translation submissions: 10 to 20 pages.

• Major: Single: Creative Writing
• Class Level: Undergrad: N/A; Grad: Masters/MFA or MA (must be entering second year of graduate study)
• Enrollment Status: Continuing SF State student
• Enrollment Requirement: Undergrad: N/A; Grad: 1 unit
• Financial Need as determined by the FAFSA and/or CA Dream App: Not a requirement
• Citizenship: Any
• GPA: HS GPA: N/A; Undergrad GPA: N/A; SF State Grad GPA: 3.0
• Contact Person: Creative Writing Department
• Campus Address: HUM 573
• Street Address: 1600 Holloway, San Francisco, California 94132
• Phone Number: (415) 338-1891
• Email: cwriting@sfsu.edu
• Web page: https://creativewriting.sfsu.edu/department-resources
• Number of Awards: 2