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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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Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry/Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction
Palettes & Quills Chapbook Contest
Panhandler Poetry Chapbook Contest
PANK Magazine's 1,001 Awesome Words Contest
Paraclete Fiction Award
Paradise Poetry Prize
Paris Lake Poetry Contest
PARSEC Short Story Contest
Parthenon Prize for Fiction
Passager Poetry Contest for Writers Over 50
Pat Lowther Memorial Award
Pat Parnell Poetry Contest
Paterson Fiction Prize
Paterson Poetry Prize
Paterson Prize for Books for Young People
Patricia Bibby First Book Award
Patricia Dobler Poetry Award
Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry/Montana Prizes in Fiction & Creative Nonfiction
Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Paul Gruchow Essay Contest
Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Contest/ Margaret A. Walker Short Fiction Contest
Paumanok Poetry Award
Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award
PCS-Words Competition
Peace & Freedom Press Open Poetry Competition
Pearl Poetry Prize
Pearl Short Story Prize
Pecan Grove National Chapbook Contest
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
PEN Center USA Literary Awards
Pen Poetry, Prose and Playwriting Contests
PEN Translation Prize
PEN/Beyond Margins Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers
Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award
Pennsylvania Poetry Society Annual Contest
Penumbra Poetry & Haiku Contest
Per Contra Prize for Short Fiction
Perigee Poetry Contest
Perigee Short Fiction Contest
Perillo Prize for Italian American Writing
Perugia Press Prize
Peter Blazey Fellowship
Peterloo Poets Open Poetry Competition
Petra Kenney Poetry Competition
Philbrick Poetry Award
Philip Levine Prize in Poetry (The)
Philip Mangelsdorf Award for Writing Excellence
Phoebe Winter Fiction Contest
Phyllis Smart-Young Prize in Poetry/ Chris O'Malley Prize in Fiction
Picador Poetry Prize
Piccolo Fiction Open
Pilgrimage Writing Award
Pinewood Haiku Contest
Pinyon Press Poetry Book Contest
Pitshanger Poets Competition
Platt Family Scholarship Prize Essay Contest
Plimpton Prize
Plough Prize (The)
PNWA Literary Contest
Pocataligo Poetry Contest
Pockets Fiction-Writing Contest
Poetic Licence Contest for Canadian Youth
Poetry 2010 International Poetry Competition (Atlanta Review)
Poetry Center at Smith College High School Prize (The)
Poetry Center Book Award (The)
Poetry Center of Chicago Annual Juried Reading
Poetry e-Motion Monthly Audio Poem Competition
Poetry in Motion Contest
Poetry Initiative Poetry Contest
Poetry International Prize
Poetry Kit Poetry Competition
Poetry London Competition
Poetry Magazine Awards
Poetry on the Lake Competition
Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowships
Poetry Society of New Hampshire National Contests
Poetry Society of South Carolina Contests
Poetry Society of Tennessee Annual Contest
Poetry Society of Texas Annual Contests
Poetry Society of Virginia (Adult Categories)
Poetry Society of Virginia (Student Categories)
Poetry West/Eleventh Muse Poetry Contest
Poets Contest Corner Online Poetry Competition
Poets on Parnassus Prize
Poets Out Loud Prize
Poets Union Poetry Prize
Poole Literary Festival New Media Prize
Porter Fleming Competition
Portland Pen Poetry Contest
Portlandia Poetry Chapbook Contest
Potomac Review Fiction Writing Contest
Potomac Review Poetry Writing Contest
Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series
Predator Press Poetry Chapbook Competition
Predator Press Prose Chapbook Competition
Premio Aztlan Literary Prize
Presence Poetry Contest
Princemere Poetry Contest
PRISM Literary Nonfiction Contest
PRISM Poetry Contest
Prism Review Poetry and Fiction Prizes
PRISM Short Fiction Contest
Prose for Papa Short Story Contest
Publishing Triangle Awards
Pudding House Poetry Chapbook Competition
Puffin Foundation Artist Grants
Pulse Poetry Prize
Pump Up the Purse Writing Contest

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