Cape Cod Story Summit Announces Reading Is Fundamental Writing Scholarship

For Best Children’s Story

The Reading is Fundamental Writing Award is a full tuition scholarship to the Cape Cod Story Summit in June, 2020. The scholarship will be given to the applicant who writes the best children’s story.

The Reading Is Fundamental Scholarship will provide full access for the winner and his/or her guest to the Cape Cod Story Summit held from October 11 to October 17 2020 at the Ocean Edge Resort in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The Summit will also involve a inspirational day trip to Concord, the “birthplace of American Literature”, where Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson lived and wrote their seminal works. The scholarship covers all the Summits costs but for alcoholic beverages and airfare to and from the Summit.

Stories need to have a word count of 300 words or more. Stories can not have been previously published or self-published, and need to be targeted for children 12 and under. Applications are now open. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2020 11:59 PM Pacific.

Reading is Fundamental is the largest non-profit children’s literacy organization in the United States. “Children’s stories may be the most important stories of all,”…