The Thomas Wolfe Scholarship is
beginning its seventeenth year at Carolina. Our scholarship for full undergraduate
support for student writers will open its fifteenth submission period as follows: The
Thomas Wolfe Scholarship will receive applications beginning September 1st, 2017. Our
Thomas Wolfe Scholarship application process involves two (2) steps:
Step 1) an application to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by
October 15th, 2017; and,
Step 2) an application to the Thomas Wolfe Scholarship by November 15th
, 2017. Students must apply to both the University and the Scholarship to be considered.
Preliminary screening will be completed in January, 2017, with final screening concluding
in early March, 2017. Three outstanding candidates will be brought to the UNC-Chapel Hill
campus for interviews, and a final decision will be made in early April, 2017. Novelist and short-story writer Thomas Wolfe of Asheville, North Carolina entered
Carolina in the fall of 1916 and graduated in the spring of 1920. Wolfe loved Chapel Hill,
which he celebrated as Pulpit Hill in Look Homeward, Angel, the novel he published to
international acclaim in 1929: “The university was a charming, an unforgettable place. . . .
The central campus sloped back and up and over a broad area of rich turf, groved with
magnificent ancient trees . . . . the wilderness crept up to it like a beast.”
Wolfe had but one playwriting course to take. Students in our Creative
Writing Program now choose courses in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and stylistics, and
courses in playwriting and screenwriting are also offered by the Departments of Dramatic
Art and Communications Studies. With five semesters of credit, students can minor in
Creative Writing, and we believe ours to be among the strongest undergraduate writing
programs in the country.
More complete information on The Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, including the
application form, is available on the University's website below.
http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/creative/scholarship/tws
