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Get online access to profiles of over 750 poetry contests when you subscribe to Poetry Contest Insider, plus profiles of over 300 of the best fiction and essay contests. Each profile ranks the contest, tells you how to enter and helps you learn more about recent winning entries and the contest judges. Click the letters below to see the contests we profile. See a sample profile. For full access to all the contest profiles, please click here.

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B.C. High School Writing and Design Contest
B.J. Rolfzen Creative Writing Contest
Bacopa Literary Contest
Bakeless Literary Prizes
Balcones Poetry Prize
Balticon SF Poetry Contest
Baltimore Review Creative Nonfiction Competition
Baltimore Review Poetry Competition
Baltimore Review Short Fiction Competition
Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Awards
Bank Street Writers Competition
Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards
Bard Fiction Prize
Bards & Sages Writing Contest
Barnard College New Women Poets Prize
Barrelhouse Pop Culture Essay Contest
Barrow Street Press Book Contest
Barry Hannah Fiction Prize
Basil Bunting Poetry Award
Bateau Press Boom Chapbook Contest
Bathsheba Monk Short Story Contest
BBC National Short Story Prize (The)
BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year Award
Beatrice Hawley Competition
Bechtel Prize (The)
Bedford Open Poetry Competition
Being at Work Poetry Challenge
Bellday Poetry Prize
Bellevue Literary Review Prizes
Bellwether Prize for Fiction
Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize
Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
Benu Press Social Justice and Equity Award in Creative Non-Fiction
Bernard F. Conners Prize
Best New Poets Open Competition
Betsy Colquitt Award for Poetry/Frank O'Connor Award for Fiction
Betty Drevniok Award (The)
Betty Gabehart Prize for Imaginative Writing
Betty Trask Prize
Beullah Rose Poetry Prize
Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest for High School Students
Bill Naughton Short Story Competition
Biscuit Flash Fiction Prize
Biscuit Short Story Prize
Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards
Black Infinity Adele V. Holden Prize for New African-American Poets
Black Orchid Novella Award
Black River Chapbook Competition
Black Warrior Review Poetry, Fiction & Nonfiction Contest
Blake Poetry Prize
Blanchan/Doubleday Awards
Bliss Carman Poetry Award/ McNally Robinson Fiction & Nonfiction Awards
Blodgett Waxwing Literary Prize in Fiction
Bloodroot Poetry Contest
Blooker Prize (The)
BLOOM Chapbook Contest
Blue Earth Review Flash Fiction Contest
Blue Light Poetry Chapbook Prize
Blue Lynx Poetry Prize
Blue Mesa Review Fiction Contest
Boardman Tasker Prize
Bomb Magazine Annual Fiction Prize
Bomb Magazine Annual Poetry Contest
Bookhabit Poetry Competition
Bordighera Poetry Prize
Boston Review Poetry Contest
Boston Review Short Story Contest
Boulevard Emerging Poets Contest
Boulevard Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers
Boyle Arts Festival Brass Shillelagh Drama Award
Boyle Arts Festival Poetry Competition
Boyne Writers Group Swift Competition
bpNichol Chapbook Poetry Award (The)
Bravado Poetry Competition
Bread & Lightning Poetry Chapbook and Broadside Competition
Brenda L. Smart Fiction Prizes
Brenda L. Smart Grand Prize for Poetry
Brenda Ueland Fiction Prize
Briar Cliff Review Fiction, Poetry & Creative Nonfiction Contest
Brick Road Poetry Book Contest
Bridport Prize (The)
Brighid's Fire Books/LughnassadhBooks.com Fiction Manuscript Contest
Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition
Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition
Bright Lights Big Verse: Poems of Times Square
BRIO Awards
Bristol Short Story Prize
Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes
Broken Bridge Folio Series
Broken Bridge High School Poetry Prize
Buffalo Carp Flash Fiction Contest
Burnaby Writers' Society Annual Competition
Burning Bush Poetry Prize
Burning the Midnight Oil Poetry Contest
Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition
Burnside Review Poetry Chapbook Competition
Byron Herbert Reece International Award
Byron's Quill Award for Poetry
Bywater Prize for Fiction

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