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 Write On, Black Girl! Contest
The Connecticut Writing Project (CWP) sponsors Connecticut Student Writers, a magazine established in 1987 by the CWP to honor excellence in writings by students from kindergarten through high school and college undergraduates. In keeping with the mission of the annual Connecticut Student Writers contest, Write On, Black Girl! provides a space for qualifying participants in Connecticut to submit their original poetry, prose, memoir or artwork to be considered for our publication. Write On, Black Girl! aims to provide authorial validation and recognize the importance of writing in their lives. For some, writing for Write On, Black Girl! will be a steppingstone for further literary endeavors. With the second issue, we will publish the second edition of Write On, Black Girl!, a collection of poetry, prose, memoir or artwork written by Black girls, Black trans-girls, and Black gender non-conforming folx across the United States in order to foreground their voices in discussions about American identity.
We believe Write On, Black Girl! will provide publishing opportunities not only for participants in the state of Connecticut but also across the nation. From this large pool of poetry, essays, short stories, memoir, drama, and art, submissions are considered for publication by a panel of judges. And though we would like to publish all of the submissions, we must be selective.
Submission deadline extended to Saturday, May 11th, 2024!
Submission deadline is Monday, April 4th, 2025.
To submit, complete the electronic form here: https://connecticutwritingproject.submittable.com/submit/276679/2023-2024-write-on-black-girl
The Teacher-Consultant Writing Contest is an annual creative writing contest open to any and all Teacher-Consultants of the Connecticut Writing Project–Storrs.
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, each participant of the current year's Summer Institute self-selects a piece for publication in the Teacher-Writer magazine. 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: Friday, October 18, 2024, 11:59 P.M.
Please limit submissions to six poems and two prose pieces per category. Electronic submissions only should be submitted via the CWP Teacher-Consultant Submittable page.
This contest is open to anyone who has attended a full four-week Summer Institute at the Connecticut Writing Project at UConn.
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.