NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing

NCTE's Achievement Awards in Writing is a school-nominated program for current high-school sophomores and juniors. Each student writes fiction or nonfiction in response to the annual prompt, with a maximum themed submission of 10 pages, and is evaluated for content, purpose, audience, language, structure, voice, and conventions. Schools may nominate 5–16 students depending on enrollment in grades 10–12. The prompt appears in summer, nominations open in fall, entries close February 15, and results arrive in mid-May; the 2027 prompt is “The Meaning of Literacy Today.”