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: Midnight, October 25, 2021. 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.
Teacher-Consultant Contest Winners and Honorable Mentions 2021
| Poetry Winner | Julia Mancini (SI 14) | "A Train to Newark" |
| Prose Fiction Winner | Jane Cook (SI 07) | "Live and Let Live" |
| Prose Nonfiction Winner | Lauren Green Shafer (SI 15) | "The Importance of Mask Breaks" |
| Poetry Honorable Mentions | Caitlin Donahue (SI 16)
Alexandra Carey (SI 11) |
"Return to Cape May"
"Nourishment of Tulips" |
| Prose Fiction Honorable Mention | Max Bakke (SI 20)
Sophie Buckner (SI 18) |
"Staff Meeting"
"Cast Out" |
| Prose Nonfiction Honorable Mentions | Alexandra Carey (SI 11)
Dave Polochanin (SI 99) |
"The Joy of Handwashing"
"Game Over" |
Previous CWP Writing Contest Winners
| Year | Poetry | Prose Fiction | Prose Nonfiction |
| 2020 | John Wetmore |
Rebecca Snay |
Moira Cassell |
| 2019 | Amy Nocton |
Jane Cook |
Amanda Flachsbart |
| 2018 | Joan Muller |
Sophie Buckner | Ann Policelli Cronin |
| 2017 | David Polochanin | Shannon Bollard | Robert Pirrie |
| 2016 | Amanda Greenwell | Susan Laurençot | Joanne Peluso |
| 2015 | Danielle Pieratti | John Wetmore | Susan Laurençot |
| 2014 | Amy Nocton | Charles Vousden | Mary Ellen Ellsworth |
| 2013 | Victoria Nordlund | Kerri Brown | Bernie Schreiber |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Amburn | Jane Cook | Jane Cook |
| 2011 | Sheila Murphy | Eric Maroney | Lynn Frazier |
| 2010 | Steven Straight | Jon Andersen | Erin Haddad-Null |
| 2009 | Lynn Hoffman | Jeanette Zissell | Hannah Magnan |