Since 1982, the Connecticut Writing Project at UConn has worked to improve writing instruction in Connecticut's schools. To that end, the CWP sponsors several opportunities for teachers to engage in quality professional development and for both teachers and K-12 students to publish their writing. Below are several forms for applying to some of these opportunities, including the Summer Institute, Connecticut Student Writers, and Letters About Literature. Click the icon above to visit our website, or email us at cwp@uconn.edu.
The Teacher-Consultant Writing Contest is an annual creative writing contest open to any and all Teacher-Consultants of the Connecticut Writing Project–Storrs. Anyone who has attended a four-week Summer Institute at the Connecticut Writing Project at UConn can submit.
Prizes are awarded in the following categories:
*Poetry
*Prose Fiction
*Prose Nonfiction
A $100 prize will be awarded to winners from each category. The winning entries, along with Honorable Mentions, will be published in Teacher-Writer, which will be available on the CWP website.
In addition to the winners of the Teacher-Consultant Writing Contest, participants in our Saturday Teacher-as-Writer program and our Writers Retreats are also eligible to self-select a piece for the magazine.
Submission deadline date: Saturday, October 31, 2026, 11:59 P.M.
Please limit submissions to six poems and two prose pieces per category. Submissions to the Teacher-Consultant Writing Contest should be submitted via the CWP Submittable page. Self-selected submissions can be sent via email.
Submissions will not be returned or given feedback. Multiple or simultaneous submissions are fine with us, but please do not submit anything that has previously been published or won an award.