Announcing the 2023 WU UnConference Scholarship Winner(s)!

Therese here to announce the winner of this year’s Writer Unboxed UnConference scholarship! But first I have to tell you that the quality of submissions was better than ever. If you applied, please know the competition was fierce — and fantastic.

Without further ado, the winner of a free ticket to the 2023 UnConference plus a stipend of $911 is Kristin South!

The applicant in second place has also been offered a free ticket to the conference. Congratulations, Elizabeth Wood!

“Final-four” finalists Lisa Bodenheim and Caitlin Cacciatore were both offered heavily discounted event tickets.

Thank you to everyone who donated to the stipend. You’ll all be recognized in this year’s WU UnConference program.

And thank you to all who applied for sending in such wonderful essays and sample pages. You made our job difficult, and we couldn’t be gladder for it.

You can learn more about this year’s in-person event on Eventbrite, HERE.

Write on!

Writer Unboxed

Writer Unboxed began as a collaboration between Kathleen Bolton and Therese Walsh in 2006. Since then, the site has grown to include ~50 regular contributors and a variety of guests on rotation throughout a given year.

In 2016, the Writer Unboxed team published a book with Writer’s Digest / Random House. AUTHOR IN PROGRESS: A No-Holds-Barred Guide to What It Really Takes to Get Published is a comprehensive guide focused on helping writers over/around/through hurdles faced at every stage of the novel-writing process. It’s received some ***** reviews; we hope you’ll check it out.

If you’d like to be among the first to know about the next Writer Unboxed UnConference, which will likely tie-in with WU’s 20th Anniversary celebration, please sign up for our mailing list!

Write on!