This scholarship aims to honor the memory of Sharon L. Smartt by supporting students who are pursuing the humanities.

Any female high school or undergraduate student who’s a first-generation, low-income student in California, Oregon, or Washington majoring in the arts or humanities, such as English or history may apply for this scholarship opportunity.

Penguin Random House will award college scholarships of up to $10,000 each to six public U.S. high school seniors, nationwide. Creative Writing Awards winners have gone on to become professional and award-winning authors. Since 1993, this program has awarded more than $2.9 million dollars to public high school students for original poetry, memoir/personal essay, fiction/drama, freedom of expression prompts, and spoken-word compositions. This signature program continues to empower and celebrate hundreds of young writers each year.

Founded in 1985, the Ayn Rand Institute offers three student essay contests for avid readers of Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. Requirements and submission deadlines vary depending on the novel you choose, as do prize amounts, with grand prizes of up to $25,000! The Fountainhead is open to middle and high school students ages 13 and up worldwide; and Atlas Shrugged is open to high school, undergraduate, and graduate students worldwide. Visit the official website and fill out the contact form to view the instructions for each contest.

The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides the opportunity for students aged 13-18 to submit essay responses to a question of their choice relating to a subject of interest. Immerse annually updates its questions to inspire students to delve deeper into their favorite subjects. There are over twenty questions to choose from which can be found in our full Essay Competition Guide. 10 winners will receive a 100% scholarship to study with us at a world-leading university of their choosing. Outstanding runners-up also receive partial scholarships.

Founded in 1985, the Ayn Rand Institute offers three student essay contests for avid readers of Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. Requirements and submission deadlines vary depending on the novel you choose, as do prize amounts, with grand prizes of up to $25,000! The Fountainhead is open to middle and high school students ages 13 and up worldwide; and Atlas Shrugged is open to high school, undergraduate, and graduate students worldwide. Visit the official website and fill out the contact form to view the instructions for each contest.

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Hachette Book Group is a leading U.S. book publisher. They offer paid internships in a variety of departments, such as their editorial, digital marketing, and communications offices. Internships are posted on their career site as they become available, so check back regularly. Their ideal candidates demonstrate strong literary commitment through reading and writing.

Penguin Random House is a multinational publishing company and one of the largest book publishers in the world. Their paid and fully remote internship program offers positions in their Editorial, Managing Editorial, Production Editorial, Sales, Finance, Marketing, Legal, and Publicity offices, to name a few. (18+)

The Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider (HSI) program is a platform and community for young readers and writers interested in journalism. Participants in the program develop their writing and research skills by crafting and publishing articles for the HSI platform. In addition to access to free conferences and access to LA Times staff writers, participants in the program can apply for paid summer internships.

Pasquines is a nonprofit, volunteer-run news organization covering politics, policy, and economic issues in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. All of their intern positions are filled on a volunteer basis; vacancies are regularly updated. 

Horizon offers trimester-long research programs for high school students across subject areas such as data science, machine learning, political theory, biology, chemistry, neuroscience, psychology, and more! It is one of the very few research programs for high school students that offers a choice between quantitative and qualitative research! 

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Do you love to read great American novels or classic English literature? Do you find yourself cringing at misspellings in your text messages? Are you a student who gets excited at an essay assignment because it means you’ll get to write? If so, you may find yourself pursuing an English major in college. Lucky for you, there are hundreds of scholarships for English majors. In fact, you may have an upper hand at several essay contests with your writing and persuasion skills. That’s not all! There are many more scholarships specifically for English majors, and we’ve compiled this directory just for them. Take our Scholarship Match Quiz and find the perfect scholarship for you.

1. How did the movie change how you see both mediums (film and book)? 
2. What elements left you speechless? Highlight how the movie mimicked the book and elevated it, infusing new life and perspective. 
3. Was it the cast's performance that brought the characters to their full realization, or perhaps the director's unique vision? Share the details that made it sparkle. 

Do you fancy yourself a wordsmith? If you value creative writing as a form of communication, we encourage you to apply for the Pen to Paper Scholarship for Storytellers! This scholarship is open to high school juniors and seniors (graduating class of 2025 or 2026), undergraduate, and graduate students who enjoy crafting stories and expressing ideas through the arrangement of words on paper. Whether you’re interested in poetry, short stories, novels, or screenplays, we want to hear from you. To apply for this scholarship, students must submit a 250-word piece of original creative writing.

PLATO offers online classes for high school students on philosophy during the year 2024-2025. Costs are 100 for nonmembers but full and half scholarships are offered if emailed with circumstances. 

Are you doubly interested in psychology and writing? Then don’t miss the Minds Underground essay competition, which invites high school students to submit essays on one of three psychology-related prompts (the prompts change every year).