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The $10,850 Archilochus Scholarship is awarded twice a year by

Hellenic International Studies in the Arts

A university accredited writing and fine arts Study Abroad Program located on the island of Paros in Greece.

This award honors the life, myth and poetry of one of classic Greece's most original poets.

The world of Archilochus

Archilochus lived between 680 and 640 B.C.E. He was born on the island of Paros and is considered one of the first and most influential lyric poets. He is often given credit for developing iambic form as well as the elegiac couplet. Though his songs often voiced the feelings and needs of his people and community, his lyric poetry was rich with emotion and highly personal. The word "lyric" comes from the word "lyre" which was the musical instrument lyric poets used to accompany themselves. This type of poetry is usually short, in the first person, and attempted to share a personal feeling or emotion. Over the ages, Lyric poetry has evolved and taken on extended forms, but Frost, Pound, Elliot, Berryman, and scores of others still adhere closely to the essentials. Many poets, perhaps Berryman and Ginsberg, foremost among them, have united voice and word to give an essential strength and power to the personal, lyric poem.

The Scholarship

Hellenic International Studies in the Arts is a fully accredited American university study abroad program. Located on the island of Paros, it offers one of the most rigorous and productive Creative Writing programs available, as well as an array of courses in the fine arts. A member of the Massachusetts College of Art contributing institutions, and staffed with a faculty of teaching arts and educators, HISA, as it is known, has become a top destination for serious minded students of writing, and all the arts.

Submission Guidelines

Who can apply? Any college or university undergraduate student in good standing. The student must be eligible to receive the study abroad award and have permission from his study abroad office to attend HISA for the semester in which he/she is applying.

Scholarship Deadlines: March 15th of every year for fall semester. September 15th for spring semester.

What does the scholarship include? For the winning applicant, the scholarship amount of $10,850,00. covers all the tuition and program fees for the full semester. Included are: Studio and lab fees, all accommodation in a private room with kitchenette, private bath and balcony in the main HISA building. All inter-island travel throughout the semester to historical sites on Delos, Myconos, Naxos, Santorini, and Anti-Paros. A HISA transcript for sixteen credits.

Five second place applicants receive all of the above at a fifty percent tuition grant.

Contest submission: Accomplished lyrical poetry selection of 20 original poems.

Poems should be of a lyrical, personal nature and drawn when possible from direct experience.

All poems must be sent via the Archilochus Scholarship Submission Form

www.hellenicinternational.org - Paroikia, Paros, Cyclades, Greece 84400

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