Winners
The winning students' writings from the Missouri Writing Region for the national Scholastic writing contest comprise each edition of Missouri Youth Write, a journal sponsored by the Missouri Association of Teachers of English.
September:
Receive contest materials. Begin state-wide distribution.
The Scholastic Writing Awards Contest begins. Registration open; submissions accepted.
January 5, 2018:
Deadline for Missouri Writing Region submissions.
January 2018:
All scoring will be online. Please email Katie Kline kkline@ucmo.edu if you wish to serve as a juror.
February 2018:
Missouri Writing Region Awards are announced. Award emails are sent to winners, inviting them, their families, and teachers to the state award ceremony at the Missouri Write-to-Learn Conference. Gold award pieces are forwarded for national judging.
February 2018:
Award Ceremony at Write-to-Learn.
May/June 2018:
National Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Hall.
June 2018:
Missouri Youth Write, an anthology of all works receiving Gold, Silver, or Honorable Mention awards, will be published online.
Missouri Youth Write
Read through the expansive list of this year's Missouri Scholastic Writing Region Awards contest winners and their submissions in Missouri Youth Write.
The latest edition features the collection of award-winning student material, including examples of fiction, poetry, essays and memoirs. In February students are honored at an awards ceremony as a part of the Write to Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage Beach, Missouri.
A quick quide to the previous Missouri Scholastic Writing Region Awards list of winners is also available.
Missouri Writing Region of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Any questions? Contact Katie Kline kkline@ucmo.edu.
Or, you can call us at 816-WRITE97.
mISSOURI WRITING AWARDS
Submissions
Submission Information
Deadline: Friday, January 5, 2018.
Sign Up and Submit Contest Entries Online
Go to www.artandwriting.org to
- Register
- Complete contest entry forms (print and sign one copy of each form)
- Upload contest writing entries
Pay the Contest Fee Online or Submit a Fee Waiver Request
Fees: $5.00 for each individual category submission and $20.00 for each portfolio submission.
Students for whom fees would be a barrier to participation, including those who currently qualify under the Federal School Lunch Act for the Free and Reduced Lunch program, may submit a request on school letterhead, signed by a teacher or administrator, that their fees be waived. Fee waivers must be mailed in with a signed copy of the contest entry form.
Mail to:
GKCWP
PO Box 8900
Kansas, City, MO 64114
Students who are 12 years old or younger may not sign up or submit contest entries online. They should obtain a paper submission entry form at www.artandwriting.org and mail or deliver their signed entry forms, fees, and contest entries.
Events:
GREATER KANSAS CITY
Contact Information
The Missouri Regional Affiliate for the annual Scholastic Writing Awards Contest and Program is sponsored by University of Missouri - Kansas City, Greater Kansas City Writing Project, The Missouri Writing Projects Network, and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English.
Missouri Writing Region Leadership Team
Keri Franklin (KFranklin@MissouriState.edu)
Katie Kline (klinek@umkc.edu)
Amy Lannin (lannina@missouri.edu)
Susan Martens (smartens@missouriwestern.edu)
Barbara Price (bprice@truman.edu)
Julie Sheerman (Sheerman@marceline.k12.mo.us)
Nancy Singer (singerna@umsl.edu)
A publication of the Missouri Region's Scholastic Writing Awards
2015 Missouri Youth Write Winners
View Gold, Silver, and Honorable Mentions for 2015
Past Missouri Youth Write Winners
2013
View Gold, Silver, and Honorable Mentions for 2013
2012
Click the link for the entire 358-page publication.
View Gold, Silver, and Honorable Mentions for 2012
2011
Click the link for the entire 357-page publication.
View Gold, Silver, and Honorable Mentions for 2011
2010
Click the link for the entire 156-page publication.
View Gold, Silver, and Honorable Mentions for 2010
2009
Click the link for the entire 157-page publication.
View Gold, Silver, and Honorable Mentions for 2009