Apply to the CWP Summer Institute!

Apply to the CWP Summer Institute!

Connecticut Student Writers

CSW

This is just a place holder for now, but you SHOULD be able to download a file that lists all 409 students who received Gold, Silver, or Honorable mention in the CSW contest.
Please note that we have made NO decisions yet about what pieces to publish. That's forthcoming. Thank you for your patience!

Of course we can’t forget the teachers!

Letters About Literature 2023-24 Winners

CSW 2024

This is just a place holder for now that SHOULD allow you to access two files, one with the 9 LAL Winners and one with the 89 Finalists. (There were 91 but we found duplicates)..

Letters About Literature 2023-24 Finalists

CSW 2024

This is just a place holder for now that SHOULD allow you to access two files, one with the 9 LAL Winners and one with the 89 Finalists. (There were 91 but we found duplicates)..

The Connecticut Scholastic Writing Awards Submission Deadline is now February 26!

Scholastic Writing Contest

Teacher-Writer magazine Fall 2023 is (finally!) available for download

Teacher-Writer magazine

Upcoming Events

  1. 3/25 Application Deadline for the CWP Summer Institute
  2. 3/27 Terrance Hayes Poetry Readiing
  3. 3/29 Equity and Social Justice Reading Group
  4. 4/11 CWP Leadership Council
  5. 4/12 Equity and Social Justice Reading Group
  6. 4/26 Equity and Social Justice Reading Group
  7. 5/2 CWP Leadership Council
  8. 5/9 Student Recognition Night
  9. 5/11 CWP Summer Institute
  10. 5/17 CWP Writers Retreat

RSS The Write Space

  • How do you see yourself contributing? November 16, 2023
      I’ve had a few very interesting interactions with young students lately. Just yesterday I was interviewed by a first-year student from my colleague Inda’s class, and it turns out he lives in Madison and had my cousin Brian for math at the middle school and my former student Josh Young twice for English, sophomore […]
    Jason Courtmanche
  • Taking Refuge in Books and Gardens November 2, 2023
      I’ve been feeling a little at a loss for words or ideas for my blog this semester. I suppose Amy’s breast cancer essentially preoccupies my thoughts, and I am not spending much time contemplating education funding or legislation or pedagogy, for that matter.   I feel a little like I did the year I […]
    Jason Courtmanche

Write On, Black Girl! Spring 2023

BG mag

The Equity and Social Justice Reading Group

ESJ RG flier

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