Websites: Writer's Corner: Writing Competitions

  1. AWP Awards Series

    Contest by The Association of Writers & Writing Programs.

  2. Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest

    Open to College Students.

  3. Bellingham Review Writing Contests

    Includes the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, and Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction.

  4. Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

    Literary contest "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels." From San Jose State University.

  5. Delacorte Press Contest for a First Young Adult Novel
  6. Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize

    From Bear Star Press.

  7. E.M. Koeppel Short Fiction Award

    Contest by Writecorner Press.

  8. Erma Bombeck Writing Competition

    Contest by the Washington Centerville Public Library.

  9. Flash Fiction Contest

    Contest from the Pikes Peak Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

  10. Golden Heart Award

    From the Romance Writers of America.

  11. H.E. Francis Competition

    Short story competition from the Ruth Hindman Foundation and the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

  12. Heart of the Rockies Unpublished Author Contest
  13. Highlights Fiction Contest
  14. Letters About Literature

    A reading-writing contest for students in grades 4 through 12 from the Library of Congress.

  15. PoeticPower.com

    Poetry and essay contest for students in grades K-12.

  16. Poetry Card Contest

    Contest from Blue Mountain Arts.

  17. Poets & Writers Guide to Writing Contests
  18. Reader's Digest Contest

    Jokes, Quotes or Funny Short Stories.

  19. Tethered by Letters

    Offers contests for Short Stories, Flash Fiction, and Poetry.

  20. The Zebulon

    Pikes Peak Writers Fiction Writing Contest open to both published and unpublished authors of novel-length fiction.

  21. William F. Deeck - Malice Domestic Grants Program for Unpublished Writers
  22. Writecorner Press Annual Poetry Award