Awards

Each year NCTE celebrates more than 90 different awards across our various constituencies.

These awards shine a light on the exceptional work of our educators and students and offer myriad opportunities to recognize and elevate what makes the teaching and learning of English language arts so powerful.

Upcoming Awards

July 31

Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM) Award
The REALM program publicly recognizes excellent literary magazines produced by students with the support of their teachers. REALM is designed to encourage all schools to develop literary magazines that celebrate the art and craft of writing.

(Reviewers also needed. Sign up here.)

August 1

CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship Presented annually to four works published within the past two years that best make queer interventions into the study of composition and rhetoric.

August 8

ELATE Research Initiative
We invite proposals for research projects that advance the work of the organization as articulated through our various position statements and sponsored publications.

ELATE Graduate Student Research Award
This award seeks to support graduate student research that advances the work of ELATE as articulated through the organization’s position statements and sponsored publications.

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.