Katherine Mercier

2010 CAL Scholarship Recipient

Katherine Mercier is a sophomore at the University of Denver, majoring in Anthropology and Film and Video Production. She hopes to work in the museum field, writing ethnographies and planning inclusive community programming. For fun, she likes to write long studies of human behavior, and is already planning her senior thesis research, which will hopefully take place in museums around London. She works in Penrose Library at DU and is actively involved with the DU Curling Club, several honors societies, and volunteering at her church and in the local community.

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Tim Weilert
2009 CAL Scholarship Recipient

  Scholarship Application

Beginning in 2002-03, the Colorado Authors' League, the state's premier organization of professional, independent writers, began offering a $1,000 scholarship to an aspiring Colorado writer.

The Colorado Authors' League created the annual scholarship as part of its commitment to encourage, support and nurture Colorado writers.

The Colorado Authors' League Scholarship is open to applicants who:

• are legal Colorado residents;
  
• are enrolled full-time (12-hours minimum) in an accredited public or private Colorado institution of higher education, which includes a university, four-year college, community or junior college, or career/technical college;
  
• have successfully completed at least 12 hours of undergraduate study;
  
• have a minimum GPA of 2.5 or better;
  
• demonstrate financial need.

Additionally, applicants must write an essay of up to 1,000 words on the topic: "How Writing will Benefit My Profession." Essays will be judged for excellence of writing, creativity and grammar.

Applications must be postmarked by April 1. Winners will be notified by May 1.

Incorporated on January 14, 1932 to foster the art and craft of authorship, the Colorado Authors' League (CAL) is the state's premier organization of professional, independent writers united to further members' success. It is the oldest writers organization in Colorado and among the oldest in the western United States. Today, CAL includes more than 230 specialists, whose work embraces every branch of fiction and non-fiction writing.