Free
Scholarship Contest for Best Short Story Begins
Asylees
as Authors is pleased to announce that the contest for scholarships for 2014-15
is now open to applicants. First place for the best fiction short story is
$5,000. Second place is $1,000. There is
no fee to enter, but the applicant must be an asylee, refugee, or former asylee
or refugee (not a US citizen). Asylees as Authors, which believes in the
value of higher education and literature, is a non-profit organization that
provides scholarships to asylees and refugees. The fiction story must be 1500
words or fewer. The deadline is May 15, 2015, and the winner will be announced
before June 20, which is World Refugee Day.
More
information about the organization and the Two-Step Application is available at
the web site www.asyleesasauthors.org
