Adoptees can enter for the opportunity to be awarded $500 towards an educational pursuit!

Every year, adoptees submit work based around a question or theme relating to the adoptee experience. We encourage applicants to interpret the prompt creatively — whether through a self-portrait, an essay, digital art, a zine, a song, original choreography, poetry or a short film (or anything else you might come up with!).

This opportunity is open to any adoptee (domestic or international, adopted through any agency) who is a high school graduate planning to enroll — or a student currently enrolled — in a higher education program (i.e., a university, trade school, technical training program or other eligible educational pursuit).

In 2023, three applicants will each be awarded a $500 scholarship!

To apply, please send your contact information to Holt International, along with an artistic expression responding to the following prompt:

“Dear Birth Family….”

Please email submissions of photos, videos and essays to Elliot Bliss at [email protected]. Please mail traditional art and mixed media submissions to Holt International at the following address:

ATTN: Elliot Bliss, 250 Country Club Eugene, Oregon 97401

Submissions are due by July 1, 2023. Our team is looking forward to seeing your work!