Creative Writing Scholarship

Barbara Thomas Phillips Creative Writing Scholarship

Barbara Thomas Phillips graduated from Mary Washington in 1948, and has been a generous and longtime supporter.  She created this scholarship in 2000 to benefit a junior or senior exhibiting excellence in writing. Typically, the recipient is chosen at the end of the Fall semester and the award money is applied to the following Spring semester.

Application for the scholarship requires submission of a creative writing portfolio which may contain either:

• three poems;
• fiction or creative nonfiction up to ten pages double-spaced;
• a combination of poetry and prose not to exceed ten pages.

 The Phillips Scholarship will be awarded again in December 2017.

Past Winners

2015   Aeriel Merillat (finalists Virginia Dare Cox and Sydney Allen)

2014  Tess McClellan

2013    Haley Campbell

2012    Helen Alston

2011    Alyssa Dandrea

2010    Emily Nord

2009    Brad Efford, Kelley Smith, and Michelle Labbe

2008    Lauren Orsini and Alison Sweet

2007    Zachary Bowman

2006    Amy Jessee

2005    Ben Dombrowski and Sarah King

2004    Lisa Shroyer

2003    Ingrid Moody

2002    Lana Austin

2001     Melissa Borgerding