Essay Writing Contests

Share Your Driving Stories and Earn Cash!

Share Your Driving Stories and Earn Cash! Safe2Drive is seeking true stories about your experiences as a new or young driver to be published in our driver education course and textbook. We want to hear from teens about what it’s really like out there on the road. What experiences challenged you? Changed you? Scared you straight? Made you proud of your defensive driving skills? Below are some of the topics you may choose to write about, though...

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Table 4 Writers Foundation – 3rd Annual Writing Competition

The Table 4 Writers Foundation, formed to honor the legendary restaurateur Elaine Kaufman, will award a grand prize of $5,000 and two runner-up prizes of $2,500 apiece to promising writers as part of its third annual competition. What’s at Stake: One grand prize of $5,000; two runner-up prizes of $2,500 apiece. Who’s Eligible: Writers 21 and older; Previous winners not eligible. What to Submit: 1. A completed application form obtained from the...

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Call for Submissions: The Multiple eXposure Project Zine 1.0

Attention writers, researchers, photographers, visual artists, and image-makers! The Multiple eXposure Project is a multimedia, multi/trans/inter-disciplinary artistic practice and research-based initiative that explores the many layers of image-making, participatory photography, visual ethnography, and performative encounter(s) between the image and the spectator. We are happy to announce that we will be publishing the very first issue of our...

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Call for submissions: GeminiMagazine

We have no guidelines or restrictions on writing style or content—nada, zilch, keine. As Charlie “Bird” Parker pointed out, “There’s no boundary line to art.” We don’t want to set any boundaries so we use a clean, simple selection process: if it strikes a chord with us we print it. Payment: $10 per published piece TO SUBMIT BY EMAIL (except contest entries): Paste previously unpublished fiction, poetry,...

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TOM HOWARD/JOHN H. REID FICTION & ESSAY CONTEST

23rd year. Bigger prizes! Best short story wins $1,500. Best essay wins $1,500. Total prizes: $4,000. Winning entries published online. Fee: $16. Limit: 6,000 words per entry. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Submit by April 30, 2015. Final judge: Arthur Powers. See guidelines, past winners, and submit online at  https://www.winningwriters.com/tomstory 

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Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest – Winter 2014 – 2015

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a story that is worth telling everyone! And welcome to all having the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes totaling $1275.00. All works must be original. http://www.dreamquestone.com Guidelines: Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any...

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