Enter: 2023 Achievement Awards in Writing and Promising Young Writers

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Each day, literacy educators strive to create powerful and lasting opportunities for their students to grow their critical thinking and communication skills through writing. For decades, teachers across the United States and in Canada, the US Virgin Islands, and American schools abroad have taken advantage of NCTE’s Student Writing Awards as an opportunity to encourage and recognize thoughtful and evocative writings in their classrooms. Prompts are now available for the 2023 Achievement Awards in Writing and Promising Young Writers contests! NCTE encourages educators and administrators to share information on these school-based writing awards across the middle and secondary levels. The 2023 contests feature key changes to contest guidelines, eligibility, and scoring designations. Details are available on each contest’s webpage, and a breakdown of the changes can be found here. We ask teachers who have submitted student writing in previous years to review the changes carefully. Here are key dates for the 2023 contests: November 2022: contest opens for submissions. February 15, 2023: submission window closes. May 2023: winners are announced. Learn more about the Student Writing Awards today!