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Sterling Watson
Professor of Creative Writing and Literature

Eckerd College
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33711

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Creative Writing

Creative Writing

Scholarships

Artistic Achievement Scholarships are available to creative writers. Interested students should follow the Creative Writing Award Submission Guidelines Located on the Financial Aid Home Page under Scholarships and Artistic Achievement Awards and mail all pertinent materials directly to:

Office of Admission
Eckerd College
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33711

All materials must be postmarked by February 15.

For more detailed information regarding Financial Aid, please visit the Financial Aid Home Page.

Life After Eckerd

Creative Writing students have gone on to careers in media and newspaper reporting, designing software for interactive fiction, the hospitality industry, educational assessment, technical writing, management, counseling, teaching at all levels, editing and the law. Alumnus Dennis Lehane went on to become a world famous author of A Drink Before the War; Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; Mystic River; Shutter Island; Coronado; and The Given Day.