CWP Teacher Consultant Writing Contest
Submission deadline date: Friday, October 18, 2026, 11:59 P.M.
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.
2024-2025 Teacher Consultant Writing Contest Awardees
| Genre | Name | Title of Submission | Award |
| Poetry | Margaret Bugingo | To a growing two-year old, the boy who will become a man. | Winner |
| Poetry | Lorie Delgrasso | The Little Army of Children | Honorable Mention |
| Poetry | Joan Muller | Optics | Honorable Mention |
| Prose Fiction | Anna Muharem | Darlin’ Darlene | Winner |
| Prose Fiction | Amanda Peterson | Stoked | Honorable Mention |
| Prose Nonfiction | Bini John | Lost Forever | Winner |
| Prose Nonfiction | Elizabeth Sangree | A Cave in Kentucky And Its Explosive Bat Poop Help “Win” A Distant War | Honorable Mention |
Previous CWP Writing Contest Winners
| Year | Poetry | Prose Fiction | Prose Nonfiction | Multimodal |
| 2024 | Margaret Bugingo | Anna Muharem | Bini John | |
| 2023 | Caitlin Donahue | Daniel Murphy | Amanda Peterson | Jane Cook |
| 2022 | Joan Muller |
Diane Ayer | ||
| 2021 | Julia Mancini |
Jane Cook |
Lauren Shafer |
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| 2020 | John Wetmore |
Rebecca Snay |
Moira Cassell |
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| 2019 | Amy Nocton |
Jane Cook |
Amanda Flachsbart |
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| 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 |
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| 2009 | Lynn Hoffman | Jeanette Zissell | Hannah Magnan |
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: Friday, October 18, 2025, 11:59 P.M.
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.
This contest is open to anyone who has attended a full four-week Summer Institute at the Connecticut Writing Project at UConn.
Submission will not be returned or given feedback. Multiple or simultaneous submissions are fine with us, but please do not submit anything that has previously been published or won an award.