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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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L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest
L.L. Winship Award
Labyrinth Society Writing Contest (The)
LaMancha Productions Poetry Contest
Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction
Lambda Literary Awards
Lampman-Scott Award
Landfall Essay Competition
Langston Hughes Prize
Language of the Heart Poetry Contest
Langum Project for Historical Literature Fiction Prize
Lantern Books Essay Contest
Larry Kramer Memorial Poetry Chapbook Contest
Larry Turner Award for Non-Fiction
Laureate Prize (The)
Laurence Goldstein Poetry Award and Lawrence Prize for Fiction
Leaf Books Memoir Competition
Leaf Books Micro-Fiction Competition
Leaf Books Nano-Fiction Competition
Leaf Books Poetry Competition
Leaf Books Postcard and Short Travel Writing Competition
Leaf Books Postcard Writing Competition
Leaf Books Short Poetry Competition
Leaf Books Short Story Competition
Leaf Books Ten-Minute Writing Exercise Competition
Leaf Books Tiny Weeny Writing and Drawing Competition
Leaf Books Travel Writing Competition
Leaf Books Wales Competition
Leaf Books Write About Writing Competition
League of Minnesota Poets Annual Contest
Leapfrog Press Fiction Award
Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition
Ledge Fiction Awards (The)
Ledge Poetry Awards (The)
Ledge Poetry Chapbook Competition (The)
Lee & Low New Voices Award
Left Coast Eisteddfod Competitions
Legend Writing Award
Leicester Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition
Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Leonard Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize
Lesbian Writers Fund
Lester M. Wolfson Poetry Award
Levis Reading Prize
Lewis Galantiere Award
Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize
Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry
Library of Virginia Literary Awards
Life Lessons Essay Contest
Life Writing Competition
LILITH Magazine Fiction Competition
Limp Wrist Poetry Contest
Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature
Linda Flowers Literary Award (The)
Litchfield Review Annual Book Contest
Litchfield Review Contest (The)
Literal Latte Essay Awards
Literal Latte Fiction Awards
Literal Latte Food Verse Awards
Literal Latte Poetry Awards
Literal Latte Short-Short Awards
Literary Escape Free Poetry Contest
Literary Gift of Freedom Award
Literary Laundry Competition
Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize
Living Under Fire Short Story Competition
LMU Mountain Heritage Festival Writing Contests
Lohmann Poetry Prize
Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize
Longleaf Press Poetry Chapbook Contest
Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
Louis Hammer Memorial Award
Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award
Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry (The)
Low Fidelity Press Novella Award
Lucidity Poetry Journal Clarity Awards
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
Lumina National Writing Contest
Lunch Hour Stories Very Short Story & Narrative Prose Poem Contest
Lush Triumphant Literary Awards Competition
Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize/Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Lyndall Hadow/Donald Stuart Short Story Competition
Lynn DeCaro Poetry Contest
Lyric Family Prize
Lyric Poetry Award

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