ServiceScape is a global marketplace for professional editing and proofreading services. They help writers communicate their ideas flawlessly, no matter the subject or complexity. Every year ServiceScape grants $1,000 to students worldwide who can write a 300 essay on the selected prompt. This year’s topic is: How does writing impact today’s world?
What is ServiceScape?
ServiceScape is a global marketplace for professional editing and proofreading services. ServiceScape helps writers communicate their ideas flawlessly, no matter the subject or complexity. They believe that writing should be clear, compelling, and ready for its audience. From journal articles and fiction books to cover letters, they help clients transform their work into content ready for publication, presentation, or submission.
ServiceScape’s mission is to strengthen written communication through professional editing with a focus on clarity, structure, and precision – ensuring every word serves its purpose and every project meets its potential. Each editor is vetted for qualifications and industry experience. From dissertations to children’s books, you can match your projects with specialists who understand both the subject and readers’ expectations.
Eligibility
Interested applicants must meet the following requirements to be eligible for this scholarship
- Participants must be students who are attending or who will attend an accredited college, university, or trade school in 2025.
- Participants must successfully submit the application form on the website and must be at least 18 years old.
- ServiceScape employees and/or their immediate family and household members are not eligible to be contest participants.
Submission details
- There is no purchase necessary to enter.
- Each contest participant can enter only once.
- Contest participants’ application form submissions must be written in English.
- Contest participants will be judged on their quality of writing. All decisions are final. Non-winning entries will be discarded after the winner has been chosen and the contest participants will retain all the rights to their submitted work.
Receiving the scholarship
- The potential winner will be notified via email in December 2025.
- The potential winner must send a headshot photograph within 10 days of the prize notification. The potential winner must also sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release, and a publicity release (where legal) within 10 days of the prize notification. If the potential winner does not deliver these required items within the specified time period or if the potential winner cannot be contacted for any reason, the prize will be forfeited and an alternate potential winner will be selected.
- If all required items are delivered within 10 days of the prize notification, the potential winner will be considered the winner of the contest.
- The winner of the contest will be awarded $1,000.00 USD, payable by check and mailed within 4 weeks. The prize is non-transferable. All federal, state, and local taxes imposed on the acceptance of a prize are solely the responsibility of the winner. The winner’s name, headshot photograph, and writing will be featured within the ServiceScape blog soon thereafter.
How to apply
To apply for the ServiceScape Scholarship, all interested applicants should fill out the application form and submit a 300 word essay on chosen topic.
Application deadline
Application closes on November 30, 2025.
For more details on this scholarship, visit ServiceScape.
