UC Santa Barbara

The California Writing Project, headquartered at UC Santa Barbara, has won a 2026 Library of Congress Literacy Award. The honor recognizes organizations doing effective work to advance literacy, and places the statewide teacher network among the year's most celebrated literacy programs. Details on the prize amount and what the project plans to do with it have not yet been released.

The California Writing Project has received a literacy award from the Library of Congress, an honor recognizing organizations that make outstanding contributions to promoting literacy and reading. The announcement, shared through UC Santa Barbara, highlights the project's long-running work supporting writing instruction for students and teachers across California.