The Application Deadline for our July 2025 BIPOC Writer Scholarship, a complete ride to camp, sponsored by Fleet Feet Menlo Park, is May 1! To apply for the scholarship, please use this form.
Sonoma County Writers Camp is a 4.5-day writing retreat that is sometimes entirely virtual via Zoom (as we did in March 2022) and sometimes takes place in Healdsburg, CA (as with our October 2022 camp). SCWC is run by acclaimed authors and teachers Ellen Sussman and Elizabeth Stark. We are pleased to partner with Hedgebrook to offer a full tuition waiver for one recipient who is BIPOC and self-identifies as a woman or non-binary.
To learn more about the camp, explore this website, here.
In-person Camp begins October 24, 2022 and runs through October 28, 2022. If you are able to attend without the scholarship, please email us to find out of there are any spots left and grab one! office@sonomacountywriterscamp.com
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We are thrilled to announce our March 2022 Winner!
Lakeya Omogun, Ph.D. is a Nigerian and Black American woman. Growing up between both cultures and places shaped her views on womanhood.
She identifies an artist first, and her artistic nature is infused in all her work as a professor, writer, and speaker. Her core mission remains the same in each of these roles — shifting static ideas about identity, culture, and language. She does this work across educational, community, and digital spaces.
Lakeya is a big advocate for women building and living the life of their dreams. When she’s not busy working, you can find her in motion — on a plane to visit her favorite people and new places, in the gym, or on a long-distance run.
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October 2021 Winner!
Once again, we had an incredible pool of talented, deserving applicants, driving us to work on expanding our scholarship program. Even so, Tria’s compelling writing stood out, and she was a generous community-building force at camp!
Tria Wen is a creative nonfiction and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the NYT Now app, Narratively, and The Rumpus, among other places. 2021 California Arts Council Emerging Artist fellow, she is at work on a memoir manuscript, and is a founding editor of the Black Allyship column at Mochi Magazine. If literature is to be a representative record of our human existence, her goal as a writer and editor is to steward more stories from the margins to the page. You can find her on Instagram.
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May 2021 Winner!
Sonoma County Writers Camp is delighted to present our inaugural BIPOC Writer Scholarship winner for the May 2021 Session! We had an amazing, humbling turnout of talent, voices that need to be supported and heard. We were particularly blown away by our winner’s remarkable talent and vision, and are pleased to introduce you to Jordynn Paz.
Jordynn Paz is Apsaalooké from Garryowen, Montana on the Crow Indian Reservation. She grew up dancing at powwows, watching movies with her family and reading everything she could get her hands on. She recently graduated from the University of Montana with her bachelor’s in journalism and Native American studies. It’s her goal to share Indigenous stories and experiences through writing. She hopes to get her MFA in fiction.
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