Upcoming Awards
May 1: CEE Richard Meade Award
The Richard Meade Award recognizes published research-based work that promotes English Language Arts teacher development at any educational level and in any scope and setting. For the 2018 award, works must have been published between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2017.
May 1: CCCC Outstanding Book Award
The CCCC Outstanding Book Award is presented for work in the field of composition and rhetoric. A work eligible for the 2019 award will have been published in calendar year 2017 or 2018.
May 1: NCTE Outstanding Middle Level Educator in the English Language Arts Award
This award recognizes exceptional English language arts teachers of grades 6-8 who have demonstrated excellence in teaching English language arts and inspired a spirit of inquiry and a love of learning in their students.
May 1: High School Teacher of Excellence Award
This award is given to high school teachers who are nominated by their state affiliates. All state, provincial, regional, and local affiliates can participate.
May 20: Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant
This grant for first-time NCTE Annual Conference presenters offers up to two $500 awards who are members of groups historically underrepresented in NCTE and CEE.
June 1: CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Awards
CCCC recognizes works in Technical and Scientific Communication across six categories. A work eligible for the 2019 award will have been published in calendar years 2017 and 2018.
June 1: CCCC Luiz Antonio Marcuschi Travel Awards
Two $1,000 travel reimbursement awards are available to scholars living and working/studying in Mexico, Central, or South America who have papers accepted for presentation at the 2019 CCCC Convention in Pittsburgh, PA.
June 15: Donald H. Graves Writing Award
This award recognizes teachers in grades K-6 who, through the teaching of writing, demonstrate an understanding of student improvement in writing.
There are are many affiliate award deadlines coming up as well—check them out.
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
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
CEE James Moffett Memorial Fund
CEL Exemplary Leadership Award
Charlotte Huck Award (fiction for children)
Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Grant
Doublespeak Award – Sponsored by the Public Language Award Committee
Edwin M. Hopkins – English Journal
Edwyna Wheadon Postgraduate Scholarship
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
NCTE Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award
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)