Upcoming Awards
January 31
Edwyna Wheadon Postgraduate Training Scholarship
This scholarship provides funding for professional development experiences for English/language arts teachers working in public educational institutions. The scholarship supports postgraduate training to enhance teaching skills and/or career development in teaching.
February 15
Promising Young Writers
This writing award was created to stimulate and recognize the writing talents of and to emphasize the importance of writing skills among eighth-grade students. The 2025 writing prompt is now available.
Achievement Awards in Writing
This writing award was created to encourage high school sophomores and juniors to write and to publicly recognize the best student writing. The 2025 writing prompt is now available.
March 1
David H. Russell Award
This award recognizes published research in language, literature, rhetoric, teaching procedures, or cognitive processes that may sharpen the teaching or the content of English at any level.
Promising Researcher Award
This award competition is open to individuals who have completed dissertations, theses, or initial, independent studies after the dissertations.
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.
Future
If you would like to be notified when the 2025 award applications open, please fill out the form below.
NCTE Awards interest form 2025
Fill in the form below to be notified when the 2025 award applications are available. Email NCTEawards@ncte.org with any questions.
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 for Outstanding 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 for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Outstanding Educator (elementary)
Paul and Kate Farmer – English Journal
Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (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)