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Get online access to profiles of over 1,250 poetry and prose contests when you subscribe to Literary Contest Insider. Each profile ranks the contest, tells you how to enter and helps you learn more about recent winning entries and the contest judges. Click the letters below to see the contests we profile. See a sample profile. For full access to all the contest profiles, please click here.

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A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
A.E. Coppard Prize for Fiction
Abilene Writers Guild Contest
Able Muse Book Award for Poetry
Able Muse Write Prize
Abrendal Austin National Writing Contest
ABZ Poetry Prize
ACC Writers Studio Literary Contest
Accenti Magazine Writing Contest
Accents Publishing International Chapbook Contest
Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry
Adanna Writing Contest
Adventum Ridge to River Contest
Aeon Award
Aesthetica Magazine's Annual Creative Writing Competition
Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
Agenda Poetry Competition
Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Ahsahta Chapbook Prize
Akron Poetry Prize
Al Savard Memorial Poetry Contest
Alabama State Poetry Society Poetry Competition
Alabama Writers' Conclave Writing Contest
Alexander Cordell Literature Competition
Alfred G. Bailey Prize for Poetry
ALH Nonfiction Award
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
Alimentum Poetry Contest
All Nations Press Non-Fiction Chapbook Contest
All Nations Press Poetry Chapbook Contest
Allegheny Review Awards
Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards
Alligator Juniper's National Writing Contest
Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
American Book Awards
American Fiction Prize
American Kennel Club Fiction Writing Contest
American Literary Review Contest
American Poetry Journal Book Prize
American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize
American Short Fiction's Short Story Contest
American Short(er) Fiction Prize
American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prizes
Amprosia – The WCDR Prose Competition
Amy Awards
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
Amy Writing Awards
Anabiosis Press Chapbook Contest
Anderbo Creative Nonfiction Prize
Anderbo Poetry Prize
Anderbo Seeks Novelist Contest
Anderbo Self-Published Book Award
Andre Dubus Award in Short Fiction
Andres Montoya Poetry Prize
Angels & Devils Poetry Competition
Anglican Theological Review Poetry Prize
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Anita McAndrews Award Poetry Contest
Ann Stanford Poetry Prize
Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on the Jewish Experience
Anthem Essay Contest for High School Students
Anthony Abbott Undergraduate Poetry Competition
Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Antivenom Poetry Award
Appalachian Heritage Writers Symposium Writing Contest
Aquillrelle Poetry Contest
Arabic Translation Award
Arc Poem of the Year Contest
Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Writing Competitions
Archibald Lampman Award
Art Center for the Islands Emerging Writers Poetry Contest
Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction
Arts & Letters Awards
Arts & Letters PRIME Poetry Prize
Arts & Letters Prizes
Arts Club of Washington Scholarship Competition
Artsmith Literary Award
Arvon International Poetry Contest
Arvon Writing Competition
Ascent Aspirations Poetry & Flash Fiction Contest
Asher Literary Award
Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Competition
Asinine Poetry Contest
Association of Italian Canadian Writers Contest
Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Award
Atlanta Queer Literary Festival Broadside Contest
Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest
Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest for College Students
Augury Books Editors' Prize in Poetry
Aura Estrada Short Story Contest
Autumn House Press Fiction Contest
Autumn House Press Nonfiction Contest
Autumn House Press Poetry Contest
Awaken the Mind Short Story Contest
Awel Aman Tawe Poetry Competition
AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction: AWP Award Series
AWP Prize for the Novel: AWP Award Series

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