NFSPS Scholarship Awards
The NFSPS Scholarship Awards is a Contest sponsored by National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS).
Award Information:
Amount of Contest: Minimum award: $500 plus travel stipend, book publication
Application Deadline: 1-Feb
Requirements: Applicant must submit 10 poems (contact chairman for guidelines). This is a prize, and only open to serious poets.
Eligibility: College senior, Master's-level study
Sponsorship provided by:
National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS)
Box 640387
Beverly Hills, FL 34464
USA
Email Address: verdure@digitalusa.net
Phone Number: 352 746 2919
Fax Number: 352 746 7817
You can find out more by contacting:
Madelyn Eastlund
Scholarship Chair
A good place to start is to check out available information on the contest. Your best chance of obtaining money comes from initially researching the prerequisites and knowing if you fulfill them. Prior to starting, identify the driving force for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS) and what they hope to achieve with the NFSPS Scholarship Awards. If you meet the requirements, you should determine if you have any likelihood of actually getting the contest. Upon determining that there is a good chance that you can be awarded the NFSPS Scholarship Awards, then it is useful to put forth the effort to apply.
A vital detail of applying for the contest is properly completing the forms. Applications can sometimes be long and laborious, but it is absolutely critical that you fill out the application correctly and without omission. It would be awful to miss out because of carelessness.
After the required forms have been mailed, it's important to know when the NFSPS Scholarship Awards confers the award and distributes the money in order to stay informed about if it is possible to rely on the contest to assist with your financial needs and its personal usefulness, stipulations may exist on how you can use the NFSPS Scholarship Awards. It can be difficult to manage the expenses associated with school, and getting the NFSPS Scholarship Awards to assist with your expenses can provide significant support. If you don't end up getting the NFSPS Scholarship Awards, try not to be upset, there are other contests and your persistence may be rewarded.