WEST VIRGINIA YOUNG WRITERS CONTEST
IMPORTANT DATES
August –September 2016
October 2016
October 15, 2015
February 1, 2016
February 1, 2016
February 1-15, 2016
February 29, 2016
March 2016
April 1, 2016
April 1-8 2016
April 1- 29
April 25, 2016
May 13, 2016
Update YWC county contacts
Contest information and forms updated on WVDOE
site and MU/COEPD site.
Documents emailed to county coordinators.
Posters sent to school and counties announcing the
Young Writers Contest.
School entries sent to county coordinator with cover
sheet
Private, institutional, and home school entries
submitted to county coordinator for judging.
County Coordinators test Blackboard user name and
passwords
County coordinators upload cover sheet information
and winning entries to MU Blackboard site and mail
in permission forms to CWVWP/YWC Marshall
University.
Judging of entries
Schedule for Young Writers Day sent to county
coordinators an published on CWVWP/YWD and
WVDOE websites
State winners notified
Registration on WVDOE site to attend awards
ceremony at WVDOE site. Schools send in
information to County Coordinators.
Last day to register on WVDOE site to attend awards
ceremony.
Young Writers Day at University of Charleston