GAMBIER, OHIO—Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, has created a scholarship that will allow a high-school junior or senior to attend the Young Writers Program sponsored by The Kenyon Review each summer at Kenyon College. The scholarship will benefit students from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Winkler’s gift was announced by David Lynn, editor-in-chief of The Kenyon Review and a professor of English at Kenyon College. Lynn calls the Winkler Scholarship “the most creative development in the Kenyon Review Young Writers program” since its founding fifteen years ago.

“This scholarship will not only benefit a talented writer, bringing him or her into a community of other eager and committed participants from across the country; it will also build an ongoing relationship between an excellent public high school in New Jersey and the Kenyon Review program,” says Lynn. “Every year, deserving young people will be able to participate in a program that will fuel their creative aspirations. I know that Matt Winkler’s hope—and mine—is that this will serve as a model and a challenge to other potential donors who wish to help their schools and talented students in a direct, immediate way.”

Winkler is currently serving as chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Kenyon Review. A 1977 graduate of Kenyon College with a degree in history, he received an honorary doctorate from Kenyon in 2000 in recognition of his achievements as a journalist with the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News. Winkler and his wife, Lisa Klein Winkler, and their three children are long-time residents of Maplewood.

The Young Writers Program is a two-week workshop in writing for high-school students (ages sixteen to eighteen). The goal of the highly selective program is to help students develop their creative and critical abilities with language—to become better, more productive writers and better, more insightful thinkers. This year, the program’s participants will gather from June 20 through July 3 on the Kenyon College campus in Gambier, Ohio.