Upcoming Awards
August 31
CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
This award program, established in 2004, honors up to 20 writing programs a year. As a term, “programs” is intended to be capacious in its application.
September 1
CCCC Emergent Researcher Awards
These awards are intended to invest in our organization’s members by rewarding and supporting: early career researchers; writing faculty/instructors who have not had the opportunity to engage in funded research; and/or writing faculty/instructors who do not have support for research within their institutions. In addition to research funding (up to $5,000 per project), the Emergent Researcher Awards also provide research support.
CCCC Research Initiative
Speaks to CCCC’s belief that bold, creative research furthers the organization’s mission to advocate for broad and evolving definitions of literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing that emphasize the value of these activities to empower individuals and communities. Funds research proposals up to $8,000 each.
November 1
CCCC Exemplar Award
Awarded to a person whose years of service as an exemplar for our organization represents the highest ideals of scholarship, teaching, and service to the entire profession.
CCCC Stonewall Service Award
Recognizes members of CCCC/NCTE who have consistently worked to improve the experiences of sexual and gender minorities within the organization and the profession.
Ongoing
Children’s Book Awards nominations are accepted until October 15 each year for the Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction, the Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction, and the Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels list.
Awards List
Achievement Awards in Writing (10th and 11th grade)
Affiliate – NCTE Intellectual Freedom (State, Regional, Provincial)
Affiliate Multicultural Program
Affiliate – NCTE Fund Teachers for the Dream
Affiliate – NCTE Leadership Development
Affiliate – Student Affiliate Excellence Award
Berry Research Award to Study Careers of English Majors
CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award
CCCC Assistance Fund for Contingent Faculty
CCCC Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship
CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Awards
CCCC Emergent Researcher Awards
CCCC Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award
CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation
CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship
CCCC The Luiz Antonio Marcuschi Travel Awards
CCCC Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication
CCCC Outstanding Teaching Award
CCCC Professional Equity Project (PEP)
CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Awards
CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
CEL Kent Williamson Exemplary Leader Award
CEL Innovative Leadership Award
CEL Teacher-Leader of Excellence Award
Charlotte Huck Award (fiction for children)
Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Grant
Edwin M. Hopkins – English Journal
Edwyna Wheadon Postgraduate Scholarship
ELATE Early Career Presenter Scholarship
ELATE Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant
ELATE Graduate Student Research Award
ELATE James Moffett Memorial Fund
ELATE National Technology Leadership Award
Excellence in Poetry for Children (living American poet)
George Orwell Award – Sponsored by the Public Language Award Committee
High School Teacher of Excellence (Affiliate Award)
Language Arts Distinguished Article Award
Linda Rief Voices from the Middle Award
LLA Reclaiming the Joy of Teaching Award
NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award
NCTE Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Program
NCTE Intellectual Freedom Award (National)
NCTE Intellectual Freedom Award (Affiliate)
NCTE Leadership Award for People with Disabilities
NCTE LGBTQIA+ Advocacy & Leadership Award
NCTE Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching (PDCRT)
Orbis Pictus Award (nonfiction for children)
Outstanding Educator (elementary)
Paul and Kate Farmer – English Journal
Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines Committee (REALM)
Promising Young Writers (8th grade)
Research Foundation Teacher Grant Program
Richard Ohmann Award – College English
Richard W. Halle Award (outstanding middle level educator)
The Mark Reynolds TETYC Best Article Award (TYCA)