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New Contest added (March 15, 2009):

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves arranging words into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream... Write a short story or poem for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. http://www.dreamquestone.com

Guidelines:
(1) Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject or style or form, single or double line spacing, neatly hand printed or typed.

Or

(2) Write a short story five pages maximum, single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme, creative writing, fiction or non-fiction (including essay compositions, diary, journal entries and screenwriting). Must also be neatly hand printed or typed.

Multiple poem and story entries are accepted.
Postmark deadline (semi-annual): July 31st and December 31st each year. 
Prizes:

Writing Contest First Prize is $500. Second Prize is $250. Third Prize $100.
Poetry Contest First Prize is $250. Second Prize is $125. Third Prize is $50.

Entry fees:
Writing Contest entry fee is: $10 per short story.
Poetry Contest entry fee is: $5 per poem. 
To send entries by mail: Include title of story or poem, your name, address, phone#, email, brief biographical info. (Tell us a little about yourself) on the coversheet, add a self-addressed stamped envelope for entry confirmation. Fees payable to: DREAMQUESTONE.COM

Mail to:

Dream Quest One

Poetry & Writing Contest
P.O. Box 3141
Chicago, IL 60654

Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com/ for further details, to print out an entry form or to enter online.


"And remember, in whatever you do. It's okay to dream, for dreams do come true.” No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

__________________________________________________________________________ 

Thank you very much. I hope that you have a great day! Please reply.



Best regards,

Andre West, editor
www.dreamquestone.com 


"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which those who dream only by night may miss." ~Edgar Allan Poe

 

 

 

                                        1.     Poem Awards/Contests
                                        2.     Best Poem in a Journal Awards
                                        3.     Poetry Chapbook Awards/Contests
                                        4.     Poetry Book Awards/Contests
                                        5.     Poetry Fellowships/Grants

Poem Awards / Contests
49th Parallel Award for Poetry [Bellingham Review, The]
American Poets Society Poetry Contest [American Poets Society]
The Annual Love Poem Award [Muse Journal]
Anthology Magazine Poetry Contest [Anthology Magazine]
Anthology Magazine Prose Contest [Anthology Magazine]
The Bridport Prize International Creative Writing Competition
 Byline Literary Awards [Byline Magazine]
The Canadian Authors Association Prize for Poetry - [Harpweaver, The]
Catalpa Writer's Prize [Australian-Irish Heritage Association]
CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition [Florida Freelance Writer's Association]
Cream City Review Poetry Contest - [Cream City Review]
Dancing Poetry Contest [Artists Embassy International]
Davoren Hanna Poetry Competition [Eason Bookshops and The Muse Cafés]
Experimental Forest Poetry Contest - [Experimental Forest]
Eyster Prize for Poetry, The [New Delta Review]
Féile Filíochta, the 15th annual International Poetry Competition! - October 11, 2003
Flyway Sweet Corn Prize for Poetry - [flyway - a  literary review]
The Gerald Brady Memorial Awards for Senryu  [Frogpond]
Glimmer Train's Poetry Open [Glimmer Train]
Grandmother Earth Poetry Awards [Grandmother Earth & Life Press Publishing Company]
Grasslands Review Editors' Prize in Poetry - [Grasslands Review]
The Greensboro Review Literary Awards - [Greensboro Review, The]
Hackney Literary Awards [Birmingham-Southern College]
The Harold G. Henderson Awards for Haiku  [Frogpond]
Herb Barrett Award for short poetry in the haiku tradition [Mekler & Deahl, Publishers]
The HSA Benard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition  [Frogpond]
Images Inscript Annual Poetry Contest - [Images Inscript]
James Wright Poetry Award [Mid-American Review]
Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award [Alice James Books]
The Joseph E. Brodine Poetry Competition [Connecticut Poetry Society, The]
The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry  [Nimrod]
People Before Profits Poetry Prize   [Burning Bush Publications]
Poetry 2001  [Atlanta Review]
Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest [Poetry Super Highway]
Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award [The Robert Frost Foundation]
The Sandburg-Livesay Anthology Contest [Mekler & Deahl, Publishers]
Short Grain Contest  [Grain Magazine]
Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Contest [Kalliope]
The Wallace W. Winchell Poetry Contest [Connecticut Poetry Society, The]
“Tracking A Serial Poet” [Lichen - A Literary Journal]  December 31, 2003
Willamette Award in Fiction and Poetry [Clackamas Literary Review]
William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition [The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society]
Winning Writers Poetry Contest [Winning Writers]
Working People's Poetry Competition   [Blue Collar Review]
Best Poem in a Journal Awards
The Chad Walsh Poetry Prize [Beloit Poetry Journal, The]
The Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing [Carolina Quarterly, The]
The Tim McGinnis Award [Iowa Review, The]
Poetry Chapbook Awards / Contests
The Acorn-Rukeyser Chapbook Contest [Mekler & Deahl, Publishers]
Anamnesis Press Poetry Chapbook Award [Anamnesis Press]
BP Nichol Chapbook Award
The Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Competition
 Midnight Sun Poetry Chapbook Competition
 New Michigan Press/Diagram chapbook competition
 Stonewall Series - Chapbook Contest [Brickhouse Books, Inc.]
Poetry Book Awards / Contests
Akron Poetry Prize [University of Akron Press]
The Anhinga Prize for Poetry [Anhinga Press]
The Annual Merit Book Awards  [Frogpond]
The Backwaters Prize [The Backwaters Press]
Beatrice Hawley Competition [Alice James Books]
Bluestem Poetry Award [Bluestem Press]
CAA Award for Poetry [Canadian Authors Association]
Colorado Book Awards [Colorado Center for the Book]
Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry [Crab Orchard Review]
CSU Poetry Center Prize [Cleveland State University Poetry Center]
Field Poetry Prize, The [Field Magazine]
GLCA New Writer's Award [Great Lakes Colleges Association]
Green Rose Prize in Poetry [New Issues Poetry & Prose / WMU]
Hayden Carruth Award [Copper Canyon Press]
Lady McDuff Poetry Contest [The Rexdale Publishing Company]
The Paris Review Prize in Poetry  [Zoo Press]
Poetry Book Competition - [Defined Providence Press]
SUNDRESS PUBLICATIONS' FIRST ANNUAL BOOK CONTEST - [Sundress Publications]
T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry [Truman State University Press]
Poetry Fellowships / Grants / Other Awards
American Antiquarian Society Visiting Fellowships
Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowships [Artist Trust]
CAA Air Canada Award [Canadian Authors Association] 
CAA Vicky Metcalf Awards - body of work [Canadian Authors Association]
Creative Writing Fellowships [Arizona Commission on the Arts]
Florida Individual Artist Fellowship [Florida Department of State]
George Bennett Fellowship [Phillips Exeter Academy]
Grants for Artist Projects [Artist Trust]
Guggenheim Fellowships [Guggenheim Foundation]
 
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A&C Limerick Prizes [Amelia]
Adrienne Lee Award [Hubbub]
Alembic Annual Poetry Contest [Alembic]
Alligator Jupiter - Annual Contest
Amelia Awards [Amelia]
Amelia Chapbook Award [Amelia]

Aniello Lauri Award [Bordighera Inc.]
Anna B. Janzen Prize for Romantic Poetry [Amelia]
Appalachia Poetry prize, The [Appalachia]

Bacchae Press Poetry Chapbook Contest [Bachae Press]
Baxter Hathaway Prize  [Epoch]
Bay Area Poets Coalition Annual Contest [BAPC]
Bedford Open Poetry Competition [Interpreter's House]

Bernice Jennings Traditional Poetry Award [Amelia]
Bibliophilos - Poetry Contest
Blue Light Poetry Prize and Chapbook Contest, The [Blue Light Press]
Blue Unicorn Poetry Contest [Blue Unicorn]
Bordighera Poetry Prize, The [Bordighera Inc.]
Button Poetry Contest [Button Magazine]
Award / Contest [Sponsor]

California State Poetry Society Annual Poetry Contest
Carpetas de Poesía Luz [Luz en Arte y Literatura]
Carpetas de Poesía Luz Bilingüe [Luz en Arte y Literatura]
Charles William Duke Longpoem Award [Amelia]
Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize, The [Caribbean Writer, The]

Chelsea Award Competition [Chelsea]
Chiron Review Poetry Contest  [Chiron Review]
Columbia: a Journal of Literature and Art - Annual Contest
Creativity Unlimited Press Poetry Competition

Daily News Prize, The [Caribbean Writer, The]
David Hough Literary Prize [Caribbean Writer, The]
Dead Metaphor Press - Annual Chapbook Contest

Denny C. Plattner Awards, The [Appalachian Heritage]
Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize [Bear Star Press]
Douglas Manning Smith Epic/Heroic Poetry Prize [Amelia]
Award / Contest [Sponsor]

Envoi - Poetry Competition
Eugene Smith Prize for Sonnets [Amelia]

Foley Poetry Contest [America]
Frances Locke Memorial Award [Bitter Oleander, The]

Freexpression - Annual Poetry Contest, blank verse
Freexpression - Annual Poetry Contest, traditional verse
Frith Press - Annual Open Poetry Chapbook Competition
Frogmore Poetry Prize  [Frogmore Papers]
Funny Paper, The - Contests

Georgie Starbuck Galbraith Light/Humorous Verse Prizes [Amelia]
Grace Hines Narrative Poetry Award [Amelia]
Grafitti Rag Poetry Award [Graffiti Rag]

Half Tones to Jubilee  - Annual Poetry Competition
Heaven Bone Press International Chapbook Competition]
Helen Young / Linda Ashear Prize  [Graffiti Rag]
Hellas Award, The - [Hellas]
Hildegarde Janzen Prize for Oriental Forms of Poetry [Amelia]
Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award  [Formalist, The]
Hunger Magazine - Chapbook Contest
Award / Contest [Sponsor]

Inklings - Poetry Contests
Inkwell Magazine - Annual Poetry Competition
Inspector J. Lee Poetry Contest [Doggerel]

James W. Hackett Haiku Award [British Haiku Society]
Jerome J. Shestack Prizes [American Poetry Review]
Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Poetry Prize [American Poetry Review]
Johanna B. Bourgoyne Poetry Prizes  [Amelia]
Josh Samuels Biannual Poetry Competition [Mojo Risin']
Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry, The  [Zoo Press]
Kit-Cat Review Annual Poetry Award,The [Kit-Cat Review]

Larry Levis Editors' Prize Contest in Poetry [Missouri Review]
Leapings Literary Magazine Annual Poetry Contest - [Leapings Literary Magazine]
Ledge, The - Annual Poetry Chapbook Contest
Ledge, The - Annual Poetry Contest
Lee Witte Poetry Contest [Mount Olive Review]
Lena Chartrand Award, The [Contemporary Verse 2]
"Let's Write" Literary Contest [Magnolia Quarterly, The]
Literal Latte Poetry Awards [Literal Latte]
Literary Contest - Poetry   [Nimrod]
Loella Cady Lamphier Prize for Poetry [Miller's Pond]
Long Poem Prizes [Malahat Review]
Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry [Louisiana Literature]
Lucille Sandberg Haiku Awards [Amelia]
Lullwater Prize for Poetry [Lullwater Review]
Lynda Hull Poetry Award [Denver Quarterly]
Lynn DeCaro High School Competition [Connecticut River Review]

Mad Poets Review Poetry Competition [Mad Poets Review]
Mail Call Journal's Annual History Poetry Competition - [Mail Call Journal]
Main Street Rag International Chapbook Contest, The - [Main Street Rag]
Main Street Rag Full-Length Book Contest - [Main Street Rag]
Many Mountains Moving Literary Awards [Many Mountains Moving]
Marguerite Cobb McKay Prize, The [Caribbean Writer, The]
Marianne Moore Poetry Prize [Helicon Nine Editions]
Marilyn K. Prescott Memorial Poetry Contest
  [Medicinal Purposes Literary Review]
Marlboro Prize for Poetry [Marlboro Review, The]
Maryland Poetry Review Chapbook Contest - [Maryland Poetry Review]
Masters Literary Awards [Center Press]
Medicinal Purposes Literary Review - Annual Poetry Contest
Medicinal Purposes Literary Review - Annual Chapbook Contest
Michael Egan Memorial Contest - [Maryland Poetry Review]
Mid-America Press Writing Award Competition, The
   [Mid-America Press, Inc.]

Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry [Harpur Palate]
Mirage Prize, The [New Mirage Quarterly, The]
Montegue Wade Lyric Poetry Prize [Amelia]
Muriel Craft Bailey Memoral Prize [Comstock Review, The]
Museum of Haiku Literature Awards  [Frogpond]

Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award [Lotus Press, Inc.]
National Chapbook Competition [Bright Hill Press]
National Poet Hunt [MacGuffin, The]
National Poetry Book Competition [Bright Hill Press]
Nebraska Review Awards, The [Nebraska Review, The]
Nerve Cowboy - Annual Chapbook Contest

New England / New York Award [Alice James Books]
New Issues Poetry Prize [New Issues Poetry & Prose / WMU]
New Letters Poetry Prize [New Letters]
New Song Chapbook Competition [New Song Press]

New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition [MM Review]
New Writer Poetry Prize, The [New Writer, The]
New Writing Awards [1812]
Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition, The  [Frogpond]
96 Inc's Bruce P. Rossley Literary Awards [96 Inc Magazine]
Award / Contest [Sponsor]
Outposts Annual Poetry Competition [Outposts Poetry Quarterly]
Richard Hugo Memorial Poetry Award, The [Cutbank]
Robert Penn Warren Poetry Awards [Anthology of New England Writers, The]
Robert Penn Warren Poetry Prize, The [Cumberland Poetry Review]
Sam Ragan Prize [Crucible]
Vi Gale Award [Hubbub]