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S. Portia Steele Award for Excellence in Poetry and Prose
S.E.VEN Fund "Faith and Development" Essay Contest
S.E.VEN Fund "Morality of Profit" Essay Competition
S.E.VEN Fund Student Essay Competition
Sacramento Poetry Center Annual Contest
Sacramento Poetry Center Book (Cathy Washington) Prize
Sacramento Poetry Center High School Poetry Writing Contest
Saigyo Awards for Tanka (The)
Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Competition
Samhain International Poetry Competition
Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Prize
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Memorial Poetry Prize
San Francisco International Competition: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka
San Francisco International Competition: Rengay
San Francisco Writers Conference Writing Contest
Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards Program
Sara Henderson Hay Prize for Poetry
Sarabande Student Poetry Competition
Sarah Lantz Memorial Poetry Book Prize
Sarah Mook Memorial Poetry Prize for Students
Saturday Writers One-Page Poem Contest
Saturday Writers Short Story Contest
Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize
Sawtooth Poetry Prize
Scarborough Arts Poetry and Spoken Word Adult Competition
Scarborough Arts Poetry and Spoken Word Adult Competition
Scarborough Arts Poetry and Spoken Word Youth Competition
Schneider Family Book Award
Science Fiction Poetry Association "New Poets" Contest
Scintilla Open Poetry Competition
Scratch Poetry and Short Fiction Contest
Seacoast Writers Association Writing Contest
Sean O'Faolain Short Story Competition
Seattle Review Poetry & Fiction Contest
Second Light Poetry Competition
SEEDS Chapbook Anthology
Senior Poets Laureate Competition
Sense of Place Chapbook Competition
Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry and Short Story Competitions
Sentinel Literature Festival Poetry Competition
Serena McDonald Kennedy Award
Seventeen Magazine Fiction Contest
Shadow Poetry Chapbook Competition
Shadows Ink
Shakespeare's Monkeys Simian Awards
Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize
Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Competition
Shenandoah's Flannery O'Connor Issue Contest
Sheree Fitch Prize for Writing by Young People
Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award
Short Grain Contest
Sidney Lanier Poetry Award
Silent Voices Short Story Contest
Sinclair Poetry Prize
Sir John M. Templeton Fellowships Essay Contest
Skysaje Enterprises Poetry Contest
Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition
Slim Volume Series
Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Competition
Slope Editions Annual Book Prize
Smalls Books Poetry Book Contest
Smories Prize
Snapshot Press Haiku Collection Competition (The)
Snapshot Press Tanka Collection Competition (The)
So to Speak Fiction Contest
So to Speak Nonfiction Contest
So to Speak Poetry Contest
Sol Books Poetry Contest
Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing
Solstice Literary Contest
Somerset Maugham Awards
Sonora Review Concentrated Nonfiction Contest
Sonora Review Poetry Contest
Sonora Review Short-Short Story Contest
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Award
Soul-Making Literary Competition
South Carolina Fiction Project
South Carolina Poetry Book Prize
South Carolina Review Poetry Contest (The)
Southeast Review Narrative Nonfiction Contest
Southeast Review Poetry & Short Short Story Contests
Southern California Review Annual Fiction Prize
Southern Illinois Writers Guild Contest
Southern Women Writers Conference Emerging Writers Contest
SouthWest Writers Contest
Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook Competition
Sow's Ear Poetry Competition
Sparrow Prizes for Poetry and Prose
Speakeasy Competition
Spectra Pulse Short Fiction Contest
Spilling Ink Review Creative Non-Fiction Competition
Spilling Ink Review Flash Fiction & Prose Poetry Competition
Spilling Ink Review Short Story Competition
Spire Annual Poetry Book Competition
Spire Poetry Chapbook Contest
Spire Prose Chapbook Contest
Spirit First Meditation Poetry Contest
Split Oak Press Chapbook Contest
Split This Rock Poetry Contest
Spokane Prize for Short Fiction
Spoken Ink Audiostory Competition
Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize (The)
Sport Literature Contest
Spout Press Fiction Story of the Year Contest
Springfield Writers' Guild Literary Awards
SSA Writer's Contest
St. Francis College Literary Prize
St. Lawrence Book Award (The)
St. Louis Poetry Center Contest for Best Poem (The)
St. Louis Writers Guild Annual Short Story Contest
St. Petersburg Review Poetry & Fiction Contests
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Starcherone Fiction Prize
Steel Toe Books Poetry Contest
Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize
Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry
Stephen F. Austin State University Press Poetry & Fiction Prizes
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
Stone Canoe Annual Awards
Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize
Stop the Hate: Youth Speak Out Essay Contest
Story Prize (The)
Storyglossia Fiction Contest
Stowe Prize
Strokestown International Poetry Competitions
Strong Medicine Poetry Contest
Student Travel Writing Contest
Summer Literary Seminars Contest
Summerfield G. Roberts Award
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Competition
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival's Young Poets Competition
Surrey International Writers' Conference Writing Contest
Susan Sontag Prize for Translation
Swell Fiction Contest
Swift Satire Competition
Sylvia K. Burack Award

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