Alex McGuiggan Scholarship

The Alex McGuiggan Scholarship provides scholarship support to undergraduate students in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Qualifications:

• Applicants must be currently enrolled on the Boulder campus as full-time students. Good academic standing is required.
• Applicants must be planning to graduate no earlier than the spring of the next academic year (one year after the award cycle in which they submitted an application).
• Applicants must have a declared major in the English Department and have already been admitted to the Creative Writing track.
• Applicants must have taken/be enrolled in at least one Creative Writing poetry workshop (ENGL 2021, 3021, and/or 4021) to demonstrate an interest in writing poetry.
• Complete the CU Boulder General Scholarship Application.
• Complete the College of Arts & Sciences Scholarship Application.
• Complete this scholarship application by the deadline.

Submission Requirements:

• Submit between five and ten pages of poems titled and formatted, as they would appear in publication.
• The first page of your poetry submission should be an index of all poems contained in your submission.
• All poems must be strung together into one document.
• Insert a header with the name of the award in the upper right corner of each page.
• Insert page numbers (e.g. page 1 of 5) in the lower right corner of each page.
• No extraneous marks, grades, names or other identifying information should be included on the pages of poetry.
• Save your submission as a PDF titled: YourLastName_McGuiggan