Participant Contests

Financial Aid

Contest Winners
High School Scholarship Program

The Mendocino Coast Writers Conference will offer full-tuition scholarships to selected students currently in grades 9-12 at any high school or alternative high school program in Mendocino County. Home-schooled and independent study students are also eligible.

Winners of the 2011 High School Scholarships were:
  • Roxane Chidlaw, Pacific Community Charter High School, Friends of MCWC Scholarship
  • Julian Erickson-Watson, Mendocino Community School, Gallery Bookshop Scholarship
  • Mallory Frazier, Fort Bragg High School, Soroptimist International of Fort Bragg Scholarship
  • Jazlyn Kraft, Ukiah High School, Mary Bradish Memorial Writers Fund Scholarship
  • Alex Overturf, Fort Bragg High School, Bob & Judy Mathey Scholarship

Winners are full participants in intensive workshops as well as in all lectures, panel discussions and literary readings. Their work is also considered for publication in The Todd Point Review.

High school students should apply for scholarships using the form included in the High School guidelines. For the 2012 conference, submit an application with a writing sample no later than May 1, 2012.


One of the best parts of the conference was the opportunity to share my writing. It was fun to talk to all the other writers at the conference; everyone treated me as an equal.
Marie Champagne,
Mendocino Community High School

The Writers' Conference taught me that becoming a writer is not an unattainable career that only unusual luck and talent can bestow on one; instead this dream requires only hard work, determination, and—well—maybe just a touch of luck.
Jasper Henderson,
Fort Bragg High School





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August 2011