Upcoming Awards
Funding Opportunities for #4C23— Deadlines vary
CCCC offers several opportunities for CCCC Annual Convention presenters and attendees to apply for funding assistance.
January 31
Edwyna Wheadon Postgraduate Training Scholarship
The Edwyna Wheadon Postgraduate Training Scholarship provides funding for professional development experiences for English/Language Arts teachers in public educational institutions. The purpose of the scholarship is to support postgraduate training to enhance teaching skills and/or career development in teaching.
February 15
Achievement Awards in Writing (for 10th and 11th grade students)
Student Writing Award changes for 2023.
This school-based writing program encourages high school students in their writing and publicly recognizes some of the best student writers in the nation.
Promising Young Writers (for 8th grade students)
Student Writing Award changes for 2023.
This school-based writing program stimulates and recognizes student’s writing talents and emphasizes the importance of writing skills among eighth-grade students.
March 1
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.
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.
Awards List
Achievement Awards in Writing (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 Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship
CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation
CCCC Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication
CCCC Professional Equity Project (PEP)
CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
CEL Exemplary Leadership Award
Charlotte Huck Award (fiction for children)
Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Grant
David H. Russell Research Award
Donald Graves Writing Award (grades K-6)
ELATE Cultural Diversity Grant
ELATE James Moffett Memorial Fund
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 Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Program
NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award
NCTE Intellectual Freedom (National)
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)