Scholarship Value $2,500

Number of Scholarships 6

The James Bartleman Indigenous Youth Creative Writing Award commemorates the legacy of Ontario’s 27th Lieutenant Governor by recognizing up to six Indigenous students for their creative writing talent. Each recipient receives a $2,500 award.

There are three geographic categories:

• fly-in community
• on reserve
• off reserve (do not live in a fly-in community or on a reserve)

A junior student (12 years old and younger) and a senior student (13 to 18 years old) is chosen from each geographic category.

Eligibility

As an applicant, you must:

• be 18 years of age or under
• have consent from your parent/legal guardian (if you’re under 18)
• self-identify as an Indigenous person
• be a student enrolled in a school in Ontario
• be a resident of Ontario

Required information

In your application, you will need to provide:

• your information
• your parent/legal guardian’s contact information
• your school name and address
• an attachment containing your original creative writing piece. This may be a short story, poem, essay, play, song, comic strip or other form of creative writing that has not in any part been copied from another source
• a brief description about the creative writing piece which may include:
• what inspired you
• what it means to you

The creative writing piece attachment is accepted in these formats: doc, docx, pdf, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, txt. The maximum file size is 2 MB.

How to apply

• Gather all the required information.
• Create an account (or sign in for returning users) on the Ontario Honours and Awards Portal.
• Submit your application through the portal. If you’re under 18, you’ll need a parent/legal guardian to help you with the declaration section.