Contests and Prizes

General Writing
Associated Collegiate Press Contests (newspapers, yearbooks, magazines)
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (undergraduate literary journals)
Bread Loaf - Rona Jaffe Foundation (women writers conference and workshops)

Essays, Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction
Association of Writers and Writing Programs in Creative Nonfiction
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference--Bakeless Literary Prizes (Middlebury College)
Creative Nonfiction Contest (Briar Cliff Review)
Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay (New Letters)
Ellen Meloy Fund Prize (Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers)
Intro Project in Nonfiction
Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize in Essay (Missouri Review)
Literal Latte Essays Award
National Writing Contest in Creative Nonfiction (Alligator Juniper)
Travel Writing Awards (Writers' Journal)
A World Connected Essay Contest (Institute for Humane Studies)
Writer's Digest Writing Competitions (10 categories)

Fiction
Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction (New Letters)
Association of Writers and Writing Programs in the Novel
Association of Writers and Writing Programs in Fiction
Bellwether Prize for Fiction (National Writers Union)
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference--Bakeless Literary Prizes (Middlebury College)
Intro Project in Fiction
Fiction Award (Writers' Journal)
Fiction Chapbook Contest (Flume Press)
Fiction Contest (Briar Cliff Review)
Fiction Open (Glimmer Train Press)
Fiction Writing Competition (Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation)
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (University of Georgia Press)
Flash Fiction Contest (Many Mountains Moving)
G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction (BkMk Press)
Horror/Ghost Story Award (Writers' Journal)
Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize in Fiction (Missouri Review)
Literal Latte Short Shorts Award
Literal Latte Fiction Award
Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
Mary McCarty Prize in Short Fiction (Sarabande Books)
Mississippi Review Fiction Prize
National Writing Contest in Fiction (Alligator Juniper)
Serena McDonald Kennedy Award (Snake Nation Press)
Short-Story Award for New Writers (Glimmer Train Press)
Short Story Contest (Boston Review)
Short Story Contest (Pearl)
Short Story Award (Writers' Journal)
Spokane Prize in Short Fiction (Eastern Washington University Press)
Very Short Fiction Awards (Glimmer Train Press)
Writer's Digest Writing Competitions (10 categories)

Poetry
Akron Poetry Prize (University of Akron Press)
Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards (Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College)
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
Anhinga Prize for Poetry
A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize (BOA Editions Ltd.)
Association of Writers and Writing Programs in Poetry
Beatrice Hawley Award (Alice James Books)
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference--Bakeless Literary Prizes (Middlebury College)
Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation)
Best Poem Contest (St. Louis Poetry Center)
Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry (Eastern Washington University Press)
Brittingham Prize in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press)
Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry (Crab Orchard Review)
Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press)
FIELD Poetry Prize (Oberlin College Press)
Foley Poetry Prize (America Press)
Food Verse Awards (Literal Latte)
Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award (Bitter Oleander Press)
George Bogin Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America)
Guy Owen Prize (Southern Poetry Review)
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize (Ohio University Press)
Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry (American Poetry Review)
International Poetry Contest (River Styx)
Intro Project in Poetry
Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press)
Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize in Poetry (Missouri Review)
John Ciardi Prize for Poetry (BkMk Press)
The Journal Award in Poetry (Ohio State University Press)
Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry (Sarabande Books)
Kinerth Gensler Award (Alice James Books)
Literal Latte Poetry Award
Mississippi Review Poetry Prize
National Writing Contest in Poetry (Alligator Juniper)
Poetry Award (Writers' Journal)
Poetry Center Prize (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)
Poetry Chapbook Competition (Center for Book Arts)
Poetry Contest (Boston Review)
Poetry Contest (Briar Cliff Review)
Poetry Contest (Many Mountains Moving)
Poetry Contest (Pearl)
Poetry Contest (Slipstream Press)
Poetry Prize (New Criterion)
Poetry Prize (New Letters)
Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Contest (Thomas Merton Foundation)
Transcontinental Poetry Award (Pavement Saw Press)
Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse Poetry Contest
Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry (Snake Nation Press)
Walt Whitman Award (Academy of American Poets)
Writer's Digest Writing Competitions (10 categories)
Yale Series of Younger Poets (Yale University Press)

Stage, Film, and Television Writing
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Sundance Screenwriters Lab
Television Writing Programs

Art
Artist Fellowship Awards (Kala Art Institute)
Grants for Comic Book Self-Publishers (Xeric Foundation)
Watercolor U.S.A. (Springfield Art Museum)

Photography
Documentary Photography Project (Open Society Institute)
National Photography Competition (Soho Photo Gallery)
National Writing Contest in Photography (Alligator Juniper)
Photo Award (Writers' Journal)