Emerging Voices Scholarship Winners!

The Geneva Writers Group (GWG) is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 Emerging Voices Scholarships, offered in partnership with The de Groot Foundation.

This year, four inspiring student writers have been selected to attend the 14th Geneva Writers Conference(November 14–16, 2025) with full registration and a complimentary GWG student membership for the 2025–2026 season.

These scholarships were created to support emerging voices—writers aged 18 and above who are currently enrolled as students and eager to develop their craft within an international community of peers.

Through our partnership with The de Groot Foundation, we celebrate our shared mission, which is to nurture writers at every stage of their creative journey and to champion the transformative power of story.

Meet the winners!

Benjamin Cyril Arthur is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is a winner of the 2020 Samira Bawumia Literary Prize in Ghana and a participant of the CanEx Creative Writing Workshop 2024. His short stories have appeared in Lolwe, Brittle Paper, Flame Tree Press, Tampered Press, Lunaris Review, Lounloun, the Ama Ata Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing, and many others.

Dara Goodale (they/she) is a Romanian-American lesbian, poet, and university student living in Lausanne, Switzerland. Their work has appeared in the American Poetry Journal, Thimble Literary Magazine, Cleaver Magazine, and more. Dara is a Pushcart nominee and was a finalist for the Gasher Press 2025 Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize. You can find them on Instagram @daragoodale and online at daragoodale.com

Angel Gutierrez is a Filipino-Canadian multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, photography, film and mixed-media art. Currently based in Geneva, she is in her final semester of a BA in Media Studies and Management. Her work explores memory, belonging, and the natural world. She founded biannual Poetry Open Mic Nights at Webster University Geneva Campus in 2022, won First Prize in the 2018 Canadian National Poetry Contest for Youth Writers, and has works published in Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds (2020) and Whispering Woods: Anthology of Verse (2018).

An Quynh Nguyen is a Romanian–Vietnamese lecturer and researcher based in Switzerland. She holds a MSc in Organizational Psychology from the University of London. After working in leadership development and workplace wellbeing, she joined HIM Business School as a Lecturer, where she teaches Communications and Business Research & Writing. Passionate about human stories and the psychology of connection, she is curious about how voice, identity, and narrative intertwine, and is delighted to explore new forms of creative expression through the GWG.  

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