Winning a scholarship is a big deal. In many universities, scholarships are very important as they help to distinguish students who have been recognized for an accomplishment.
Because most universities are looking to add students who will be positive contributors to their student body, merit scholarships help to confirm capable students who would be great additions to the school.
While some students assume that scholarships are primarily designed for students who are in dire need of financial assistance, the reality is that scholarships are intended to reward a student’s academic achievement and educational progression.
Whether starting or building a career, receiving a scholarship is a huge achievement and can open the way to various international education as well as employment opportunities.
According to a report, every year, there is at least a 5% increase in the tuition fee, particularly for international students in the UK, the EU and the US. Therefore opting for a good and fully funded program helps a candidate manage the degree of his or her choice and is highly beneficial to enroll in programs that are fully funded and keep a student out of all the financial stress.
University of East Anglia (UEA) Global Voices Scholarship Program for African Students is an annual international scholarship for Creative Writing, Prose Fiction, Biography and Creative Non-Fiction, Scriptwriting or Poetry in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing who is a national of any country within Africa or who was born in any country within Africa. The scholarships are awarded to applicants who show outstanding creative writing potential.
UEA is a university that pioneered creative writing teaching in the United Kingdom with success stories of fiction prize winners. It has also been in the process of creating world-renowned writers for fifty years. The International Chair of Creative Writing and Global Voices Scholarship programme provides students with an opportunity to transport themselves to new places and to have experiences they have never had, primed with the responsibility to explore and share their stories along the way.
In 2021, Linda Temienor-Vincent won a fully funded UEA Global Voices Scholarship Program for African Students worth thousands of British Pounds in tuition.
According to Linda, the Global Voices Scholarship has given her a platform to improve her writing and storytelling skills and amplify valuable stories designed for a global audience. With the Global Voices Scholarship, the overwhelming concerns of tuition and upkeep have been eliminated. Instead, the scholarship means that she can focus on the knowledge the great teachers in the institution pass on to her and focus on her objectives without her mind running through the wild jungle of finances. It is also a welcome opportunity for Linda and emerging African writers to connect with the highly distinguished UEA programme in Creative Writing.
A communication specialist and writer, Linda Temienor-Vincent’s first eBook titled “This Journey Called Life”, which won her the scholarship and is on the OkadaBooks app, belongs to the fiction genre. The narrative is set in the mid-western region of Nigeria in the 70s and tells the story of a rib-tickling young Urhobo man and his transition from a rural community to Lagos metropolis.
Her understanding of resilience and transformation in the midst of characteristic upheavals in Nigeria is profound. Suffice it to say that, in these cataclysmic and obfuscating times, Africa and the world need Linda’s penetrating narrative eye to see situations clearly.
Linda has been writing since she understood writing. But she consciously and publicly started creative writing in 2018. She is a short story writer who enjoys writing primarily fiction. Every other type of writing comes second. She has the vision to build a powerhouse for the writing and development of stories. If there is one thing Linda would like to change about the Nigerian literary space, it would be to see Nigerian writers exposed to international platforms to improve their skills and get their works better appreciated.
Linda, who is working on a novel, would, in the short term, like to get Nigerian writers to tell historical and contemporary African stories in new exciting ways without losing the spirit of their origin. In the long term, she would like to see a strong guild of writers fighting to get legitimate funding to develop writing projects, which will keep people engaged and employed, thereby preserving African heritage.
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