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Macalester Plymouth Hymn Writing Contest
Machigonne Fiction Contest
Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa
Mad Poets Review Competition
MAG Poetry Prize
Main Street Rag's Annual Chapbook Contest
Main Street Rag's Annual Poetry Book Award
Malahat Review Creative Non-Fiction Prize
Malahat Review Long Poem Contest
Malahat Review Novella Prize
Malahat Review Open Season Awards
Manchester Cathedral Interfaith & Religious Poetry Competition
Manifold Competitions
Many Mountains Moving Poetry & Flash Fiction Contests
Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest
Marfield Prize/National Award for Arts Writing
Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for Traditional Verse
MARGIE "Editor's Prize" Best Poem Contest
Marginalia's Writing Contest
Marick Press Poetry Prize
Marie Alexander Poetry Series Book Contest
Marilyn Farber Jacobs Poetry Award
Marjorie J. Wilson Award for Excellence in Poetry
Mark Fischer Poetry Prize
Marlboro Review Poetry Prize
Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
Mary C. Mohr Award
Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Award for Imaginative Fiction
Matt Clark Prize
Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award
May Swenson Poetry Award
McKitterick Prize
Melbourne Poets Union Annual National Poetry Competition
Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize
Memoir (and) Prizes for Prose or Poetry
Memoirs, Ink's Annual Personal Essay Contest
Memoirs, Ink's Half-Yearly Personal Essay Contest
Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest
Men's Women's Poetry Competition
Merida Fellowship Award
Meridian Editors' Prizes
Meridian Prose Poem Postcard Prize
Meridian Writing Competition
Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred
Metcalf-Rooke Award
Miami University Press Novella Prize
Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction
Michael Steinberg Essay Prize
Michigan High-School Poetry Contest
Michigan Literary Fiction Awards
Midnight Sun Poetry Chapbook & Fiction Contest
Midwest Chapbook Series
Mighty River Short Story Contest
Miguel Marmol Prize
Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards
Milford Fine Arts Council National Poetry Contest
Miller Williams Poetry Prize
Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize
Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry
Milton Kessler Poetry Book Award
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Miriam Lindberg Israel Poetry for Peace Award
Mississippi Review Poetry Series
Mississippi Review Prize
Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest
Missouri Review Audio & Video Competition
Mnemosyne Award
MO: Writings from the River Editors' Prize
Modern Love College Essay Contest
Modoc Forum's Annual Surprise Valley Poetry Prize
Modoc Forum's Annual Surprise Valley Poetry Prize
Moment Magazine Memoir Contest
Moment Magazine's You Can Change the World Contest
Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest
Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction & Nonfiction
Monkey Puzzle Flash Fiction Contest
Morton Marr Poetry Prize (The)
Mosaic Poetry & Fiction Competition
Motherwell Prize (The)
Mozelle Memoir Contest
Mslexia Poetry Competition
Mslexia Short Story Competition
Mudfish Poetry Prize
Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
Muse Literary Competition
MVP Competition
Myong Cha Son Haiku Award

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