Sunday, May 18, 2008

Scholarship available for students to attend Nonfiction Conference

Ten students will receive scholarships to attend the 4th Annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, presented by the University of North Texas Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism. The conference is offering The Dallas Morning News scholarships to five high school or college minority students. Five general scholarships open to all high school or college students will also be awarded. The application deadline is June 13.  

The conference will be July 18-20 (Friday-Sunday) at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, 1800 Highway 26 East, in Grapevine, Texas (five minutes from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport). Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott Momaday is the keynote speaker and will be joined by National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis and “River of Doubt” author Candice Millard, among others.

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