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

All students in grades 1-8 — from public and private schools, home schools, youth and after-school groups, and abroad — are welcome to enter the Fall 2012 national program of The Radiant Peace Education Awards®! The Radiant Peace Education Awards program gives students an opportunity to express themselves about Radiant Peace in their lives. This year’s entries must be postmarked by December 11, 2012, with winners being...

The details: – Prizes increase with every entry, in compliance with federal contest laws. 1st place begins at $100, and prizes are offered to 2nd and 3rd places. Finalists receive a $5 off certificate for the next contest. – Entry fee $15. Multiple submissions are accepted. – 750-1500 word entries are accepted, and must answer the prompt, “What is your favorite school memory?” – 20% of all contest revenue...

Writing It Real Fall Contest Reading Period from September 15 to December 31, 2012! Do you have an essay, a memoir chapter, a short story or up to three poems to which you’d like to have professional response? Submit the work to our contest, and Sheila will respond in detail via email within a week of receiving the entry. Then you may revise the work and resubmit without additional fees for the final judging.  If entrants do not submit a...

The Time & Place Prize is a new international literary award established to provide the two things every writer requires . . . the time and the place to write. Join us in France! The winner of The Time & Place Prize receives a month-long stay in an idyllic cottage nestled among the menhirs, myths and mists of Bretagne, France.The Prize includes: Round-trip airfare to and from Paris, France plus ground transport to and from the cottage...

Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition To celebrate, in partnership with the Poetry School, we’ve made three sets of discussion points (one for each of last year’s top three poems) available from our website. We hope that writing groups and classes might enjoy looking at the poems in more detail. Each year the competition throws three winning poets into the spotlight. “There was a surge of interest,” says 2011’s second prize winner...

 Sycamore Review is now accepting entries for the 2012 Wabash Prize for Poetry judged by Nikky Finney and open to previously unpublished works of poetry. Each entry may contain up to three poems (no more than six pages total). The author of the winning piece will be awarded $1,000 and publication in a 2013 issue of Sycamore Review. All entrants receive a year’s subscription to Sycamore Review. Entry fee is $15 and $5 for each additional...