John Woods Scholarships will be offered as tuition reductions toward two- and four-week enrollments, as follows:

Four-week enrollment
$750   one-course enrollment
$1,000 two-course enrollment

Two-week enrollment
$375 one-course enrollment
$500 two-course enrollment

Eligibility:

Any writer who has not published more than one book with a university or commercial press is eligible to enter.

Western Michigan University current and former students, graduate and undergraduate, are not eligible for fellowship consideration, but may request scholarships by writing to Richard Katrovas, PSP director at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

How to apply for fellowship/scholarship consideration:

Each non-WMU fellowship/scholarship applicant must submit the name and e-mail address of a writer who has published at least one book in his or her respective genre and who has expressed a willingness to nominate the applicant.

The PSP utilizes an online scholarship application system: PSP fellowship/scholarship application. The online process will enable the applicant to complete quickly a brief application, which includes the applicant uploading a Word-file attachment of ten (10) representative pages of prose fiction or nonfiction (may be an excerpt from a short story, novel, essay or memoir); up to 10 pages of poetry (5-poem limit); ten (10) pages of play or script (may be an excerpt from a longer work). We realize that it can be frustrating excerpting from longer work, but we are more interesting in judging the quality of an applicant's writing from sentence to sentence than judging a work in its entirety. We ask that you adhere to these page limits.

There is a $20 application fee which can be paid by sending a check payable to the Prague Summer Program to the following address:

Prague Summer Program
c/o English Dept.
6th Floor Sprau
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008

Your manuscript should have a cover sheet containing the following information:
1. Your name
2. Your e-mail address
3. Your phone number
4. Your nominator's name
5. Your nominator's e-mail address
6. Your nominator's most recent book publication, including publisher and publication date. We will contact the nominator; the nominating process is brief and to the point.

First-round notification will be made by e-mail within 2 weeks of your application.  Applying for a scholarship is the initial step in fellowship consideration. Finalists are identified in the first round of judging; all finalists are considered for a fellowship upon the conclusion of the fellowship competition February 15, 2012.

Anyone with extenuating circumstances preventing them from applying online should contact Shana Wolstein, PSP Coordinator, at 269-387-2594.

Scholarship applicants who are named finalists in the first round of judging will be judged by genre for four full-tuition fellowships upon the conclusion of the fellowship competition Feb. 15, 2012 and will be awarded as follows:

The Ivan Klíma Fellowship in fiction writing
The Pavel Šrut Fellowship in poetry writing
The Eda Kriseova Fellowship in nonfiction writing
The Vaclav Havel Fellowship in playwriting or screenwriting

The winners of these fellowships will be honored members of the Prague Summer Program community. They will attend the Program "tuition-free," except for a $192 registration charge, $125 insurance charge, and the cost of housing and travel. They may earn up to seven hours of academic credit, or attend as auditors.
 
All finalists in each genre will be considered for publication in WMU's literary magazine, Third Coast, with special consideration given to the winner in each genre. Third Coast editors will select one winner, judged best overall submission, for publication in the journal's fall 2013 issue. Please note that previously published material will not be considered for inclusion in Third Coast.

The Prague Summer Program offers photograpy scholarships in the following amounts:

Four-week enrollment
$750     for one-course enrollment
$1,000  for two-course enrollment

Two-week enrollment
$375    for one-course enrollment
$500    for two-course enrollment 

To apply, please complete the scholarship application

There is a $20 charge for scholarship consideration. (competition opens Nov. 18)

Upon completion of the application, applicants will submit TEN (10) jpeg files of their work to this e-mail account:  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

Please include in the body of the e-mail when sending your jpeg files the following information:

• A short biography that includes your experience in photography courses and the focus of your photographic work thus far.
• A cover letter that includes your contact information--name, address phone number and e-mail address. 

Jan Pohribny will judge all submissions. Award notices will be sent out by early March. Scholarships will be applied as tuition reductions to PSP student accounts.