NJCTE High School Writing Contest

Congratulations to the winners of the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English 2013 HS Writing Contest!  Overall winners and School-wide winners have been posted on the Contest Winner page.

 

If you have any questions about how to participate in the 2014 contest whether as a young author, as a judge or as a member of the committee that runs our contest, you may contact Katie Tobin, the NJCTE 2013 HS Writing Contest Coordinator at ktobin@unioncatholic.org, or Michele Marotta, NJCTE Writing Awards Chairperson at michele.marie.marotta@gmail.com.

 

About our Contest:

This year marks the 31st anniversary of the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English Student Writing Contest.  This contest is open to all New Jersey students grades 9 to 12, whether they attend public or private schools. Home schooled students may also submit.

 

 

New Jersey Council of Teachers of English (Contest Sponsor) -www.njcte.com

Organizations helping to support and sponsor this contest:

National Council of Teachers of English - www.ncte.org

The Dodge Foundation - The Dodge Poetry Festival  - www.dodgepoetry.org

 

The Governor's Awards in Arts Education http://artsednj.org/governors.asp

 

Poets House   www.poetshouse.org

 

Guest Poets at the NJCTE Student Writing Awards Reception: 

 

2007         Edwin Romond                2010      Martin Farawell

 2008         BJ Ward                         2011      Joe Weil 

 2009        Peter Murphy                   2012      Cat Doty

                                                     2013      BJ Ward

 

Instructions to Enter the 2013 High School Writing Contest: 

1)  Download the contest brochure (http://www.njcte.com/hs-writing-contest/2013-writing-contest-brochure/).  This document outlines the contest rules. 

2)  Complete the registration form. Any entry without a corresponding registration form will be immediately disqualified.

3)  After completing the registration form submit the entry to the genre curators/coordinators.

a.  Remember that no personal information should appear on your entry, especially no teacher, school or class information.  Our judges need to judge anonymous works.

b.  You will be sending your entry as an electronic attachment to an e-mail.  Your document must be in either in Word or PDF format.

c.   In the memo of your e-mail, type your name, the title of your work (use the first 5 words if there is no title) and the genre of the piece.  You may include in the e-mail message itself a contact phone number where you can be reached if the curator has any questions. 

d. Use the e-mail addresses below for each genre:

  Short Story:   Kathleen Webber  - kwebber@unioncatholic.org  

   Poetry:  Steven Criscuolo -   stevencriscuolo@gmail.com

   Essay:   Katie Tobin  - ktobin@unioncatholic.org

4) If you have any questions, you may contact  Katie Tobin, NJCTE Writing Contest Coordinator at ktobin@unioncatholic.org.  All entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. December 17, 2012.