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A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
A.E. Coppard Prize for Fiction
Abilene Writers Guild Contest
Abroad Writers Conference Literary Contest
ABZ Poetry Prize
Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition
ACC Writers Studio Literary Contest
Accenti Magazine Writing Contest
Accents Publishing Poetry Chapbook Contest
Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry
Aeon Award
Aesthetica Magazine's Annual Creative Works Competition
Africana Homestead Short Story and Poetry Contests
Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Akron Poetry Prize
Al Savard Memorial Poetry Contest
Alabama State Poetry Society Poetry Competition
Alabama Writers' Conclave Writing Contest
Alexander Cordell Literature Competition
Alexander Popoff Youth Award Poetry Contest
Alfred G. Bailey Prize for Poetry
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
Alimentum Poetry Contest
All Nations Press Chapbook Contest
Allegheny Review Awards
Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards
Alligator Juniper's National Writing Contest
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
American Fiction Prize
American Kennel Club Fiction Writing Contest
American Literary Review Contest
American Poet Prize
American Poetry Journal Book Prize
American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize
American Short Fiction's Short Story Contest
American Short(er) Fiction Prize
American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prizes
Amy Awards
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
Amy Writing Awards
Anabiosis Press Chapbook Contest
Anderbo Poetry Prize
Anderbo Seeks Novelist Contest
Andres Montoya Poetry Prize
Anhinga Prize for Poetry
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Anita McAndrews Award Poetry Contest
Ann Arbor Book Festival Short Story Contest
Ann Arlys Bowler Student Poetry Contest
Ann Stanford Poetry Prize
Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on the Jewish Experience
Annie Finch Prize for Poetry
Anthem Essay Contest for High School Students
Anthony Abbott Undergraduate Poetry Competition
Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Antivenom Poetry Award
APEE Essay Contest on the Benefits of a Free Market
Appalachian Heritage Writers Symposium Writing Contest
Apprentice House Poetry Chapbook Contest
Aquillrelle Poetry Contest
Arabic Translation Award
Arc Poem of the Year Contest
Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Writing Competitions
Arizona Literary & Book Awards
Art Center for the Islands Emerging Writers Poetry Contest
Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction
Arts & Letters Awards
Arts & Letters Prizes
Arts Club of Washington Scholarship Competition
Artsmith Literary Award
Arvon International Poetry Contest
ASCA Writing Competition
Ascent Aspirations Poetry & Flash Fiction Contest
Asher Literary Award
Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Competition
Asinine Poetry Contest
Association of Italian Canadian Writers Contest
Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Award
Atlanta Queer Literary Festival Broadside Contest
Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest
Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest for College Students
Auntie Ann Poetry Book Award
Aurora Artisans Poetry Contest
Automotive Poetry Contest
Autumn House Press Fiction Contest
Autumn House Press Poetry Contest
Awaken the Mind Short Story Contest
AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction: AWP Award Series
AWP Prize in the Novel: AWP Award Series

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