Awards
The student awards recognize the best in student writing.
Student Writing Awards
Congratulations to all of the participating students in the 2025 Achievement Awards in Writing and the 2025 Promising Young Writers awards! Results were emailed to nominating educators on May 20, 2025.
Achievement Awards in Writing
For 10th- and 11th-grade students
This school-based writing program encourages high school students in their writing and publicly recognizes some of the best student writers in the nation.
Annual deadline: February 15
Promising Young Writers
For 8th-grade students
This school-based writing program stimulates and recognizes student’s writing talents and emphasizes the importance of writing skills among eighth-grade students.
Annual deadline: February 15
Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM)
The 2025 REALM Awards will open for submissions by the end of May, 2025.
This program for middle schools, high schools and universities/colleges recognizes students, teachers, and schools for producing excellent literary magazines. It provides encouragement for all schools to develop literary magazines with excellence in writing and school-wide participation.
Annual deadline: July 31