BATH SPA UNIVERCITY SCHOLARSHIP

Bath Spa University (BSU), a British university that has led the teaching of creative writing since the 1980s, producing many published authors and one of the highest ranked teaching-led modern universities in the UK, is running a creative writing competition for Nigerian writers in conjunction with Bridgeway Overseas Admission Centre (BOAC). You could be in with a chance to win a SCHOLARSHIP.

BSU is looking for talented writers of prose fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, literary non-fiction or writing for young people, whose work shows, in our judgement, the potential for publication. Our courses are designed to help writers improve their skills, deepen their understanding, extend their repertoire of techniques and move towards publication. We have a strong record of helping students win contracts with publishers and achieve other forms of publication.
We want to help you develop your talent by offering this fantastic opportunity of a lifetime.
The writer of the winning entry will receive the prize of £200 and be considered for a place on a graduate or undergraduate creative writing course at BSU. If the place is awarded, it will be supported by an annual scholarship of £2,000. See terms and conditions below. A runner up prize of £75 is also offered.

The competition will be judged by BSU and Nigerian-born Segun Afolabi, author of A Life Elsewhere, Goodbye Lucille and winner of the 2005 Caine prize for African writing.

Terms & Conditions
1. Entries should be prose fiction (novel excerpt or short story), poetry or short drama.
2. 5,000 words maximum; 300 words minimum.
3. Any subject is permissible
4. The judging criterion will be literary merit as our judges perceive it.
5. The judges will be Bath Spa University and Segun Afolabi, a successful Nigerian-born writer.
6. The decision of Bath Spa University is final; no appeals or correspondence will be entered into.
7. Bath Spa University will look closely at the best entries and decide whether we can offer the writers places in our postgraduate or undergraduate programmes. (Subject to the normal application procedure.)
8. Applicants can be any age and can be hoping to study at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
9. There will be one winner, who will be offered a scholarship of £2,000 per year towards the tuition fees at Bath Spa University, dependant upon a successful application to the course (BA or MA Creative Writing or MA Writing for Young People) and a confirmed visa offer*. Applications to courses are subject to the normal conditions for application to all Bath Spa University courses. Scholarships will only be offered to students who pay full international tuition fees. In addition and regardless of whether the winner applies for a place at BSU, the winner will be awarded a cash prize of £200 and a runner-up will be awarded a cash prize of £75.
10. The BA Creative Writing is a three-year full time course. The MA in Creative Writing and the MA in Writing for Young People are both one-year full-time master courses. Full-time attendance is required for all courses. The scholarship is offered for each year of the course, subject to satisfactory academic progress each year.
11. The deadline for receiving applications is 27th June 2007. The winners will be contacted by 16th July 2007 by email.
12. All entrants should register and submit via email to office@boac-uk.net or by fax to +44 1707 201100 (please include your personal and academic profile)

From a three-year Bachelor’s Degree, one-year Master’s or four-year PhD programme to a Foundation, short English language course or Study Abroad programme, every course at BSU is designed to truly reward the individual. To access a full, interactive list of what is available, visit www.bathspa.ac.uk/courses.

* Visa - the winner will have to apply directly to the British Embassy in Nigeria and be subject to all existing visa regulations. BSU will provide documentation relating to the admission and offer of scholarship for the purposes of visa application.