View the Overview slides below to learn more about the 2025 WPCTE English Festival!

SCHOOL REGISTRATION AND REGISTRATION FEE ARE DUE BY FEBRUARY 1.

TEAM REGISTRATION DUE BY APRIL 1. 

WPCTE English Festival Pre-Festival Team and Individual Contest Submissions are due by May 20, 2025. 

INDIVIDUAL CONTESTS

Individual Writing Contest - Submission Form

• Grades 7-9 & 10-12: Using Susan Hood's books Alias Anna and Harboring Hope as inspiration, choose any character from either book and write about how the character was an upstander. The writing can be from any perspective and can be a continuous poem or several related poems. The best writings will play with various poetry formats, using Susan Hood's books as mentor texts. The length requirement is 50-100 lines.

Individual Art Contest - Submission Form

• Grades 7-12: Students may submit 3-6 pieces of artwork based on any one or more of their readings. The artwork can be illustrations, paintings, sculptures, etc.

TEAM CONTESTS

Super Trivia / Questions - Submission Form

Each team may submit 30 multiple choice trivia questions (5 per book). Each question must have four possible answers with the correct answer underlined and the page number of the answer indicated in parenthesis. Questions must be typed with the title of each book at the top of each page. Questions should deal with trivia, not significant details. However, they should not be too far-fetched. A single cover page should indicate the name of the school and the names of all members of the team along with the team number. Questions should be submitted on the Google Form by the deadline. Failure to follow any of these directions will result in loss of credit.

Video Response - Submission Form

​Each team may submit a 5 minute (maximum) video segment based on/or in response to one or more of the assigned readings. The entry should be submitted on the Google Form by the deadline. Failure to follow any of these directions will result in loss of credit.

*Teams earn 30 points for submitting both the questions and the video response. Teams must submit both the questions and video response to earn points.

View the 2025 Schedules below.

The 2023 English Festival was the first English Festival without leader John Manear. To honor his massive contribution to the English Festival, we have started the John Manear English Festival Participation Award. This award goes to the school with the most teams in each grade division. There is also a winner for bringing the most teams overall. Congratulations to the inaugural winners!

4-6: Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School

7-9: Blessed Trinity Academy

10-12: Keystone Oaks High School

Overall: Blessed Trinity Academy