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The New Jersey Second Amendment Society’s (NJ2AS) First High-School Essay Writing Contest

 The New Jersey Second Amendment Society (NJ2AS) is holding its first high school essay writing contest. Beginning November 1st, high school students are invited to submit an essay up to 500 words about the Second Amendment. Inspired by the recent surge in firearm ownership throughout NJ the New Jersey Second Amendment Society created this contest to help students explore their belief and understandings about the second amendment to the US...

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Fourth Annual Spirit First Poetry Contest (No Entry Fees)

Fourth Annual Spirit First Poetry Contest Deadline: January 31, 2013 Accepted Themes: Meditation, Mindfulness, Silence, or Stillness First Prize: $175 Second Prize: $125 Third Prize: $75 NO ENTRY FEES to enter! Complete guidelines: Spirit First is pleased to announce its fourth annual meditation poetry contest. Poetry submissions may be of any length and any style but must have a theme of meditation, mindfulness, stillness, or silence. Poems...

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Needle in the Hay Writing Comps

Needle In The Hay is a creative writing competition that runs weekly and monthly awards for participants in a variety of genres and categories. The aim of the site is to encourage writers to participate by offering more frequent incentives then the traditional annual writing award. The funds for the awards come from my own pocket and the kind donations of others. Entrance to all awards is free, however some awards may have eligibility criteria....

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2012 Anderbo Poetry Prize

Free to Enter! 2012 Anderbo Poetry Prize For up to six unpublished poems Winner receives: $500 cash Publication on anderbo.com Contest Judge: Sidney Wade Sidney Wade’s sixth collection of poems, Straits & Narrows, will be published by Persea Books in February 2013. She has served as President of AWP and Secretary/Treasurer of ALTA and has taught workshops in Poetry and Translation at the University of Florida’s MFA@FLA program since 1993....

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THE POETRY MARKET EZINE!

Attention poets! Searching for poetry markets and contest? Then subscribe to the free monthly newsletter, The Poetry Market Ezine. Each monthly issue features poetry markets and contests, poetry and writing news and reviews. The Poetry Market Ezine is exclusively dedicated to poets, poetry publishers and poetry readers. Markets and contests are all geared towards poetry only. Affordable advertisement options and/or poem critique service also...

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National Novel Writing Month – November 1 – 30, 2012

National Novel Writing Month is a fun and frenetic approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved. Because of the limited writing...

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