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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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CAA Awards for Adult Literature
CAA/BookLand Emerging Writer Award
Caesura Poetry Contest
Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition
Caine Prize for African Writing
Caketrain Chapbook Competition
California Book Awards
California Federation of Chaparral Poets Youth Contest
California State Poetry Society Annual Contest
Calvino Prize
Camber Press Fiction Chapbook Award
Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award
Cambridge Writers Collective Poetry Contest
Campbell Corner Poetry Prize
Canadian Christian Poetry Contest
Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for Short Fiction
CanWrite! Conference Story Contest
Cargoes Annual Poetry & Fiction Contest
Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Reading Period
Carol E. Doering Poetry Contest
Carolina Wren Press Poetry Contest for a First Book
Carpe Verbum Essay/Non-fiction Award
Carpe Verbum Novella Award
Carpe Verbum Poetry Award
Carpe Verbum Short Fiction Award
Cavalier Magazine Fiction and Poetry Contest
Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize
Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Caveat Lector Poetry Contest
CBC Literary Awards
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Competition (The)
Central PA Writing Contest
Cervena Barva Fiction Chapbook Prize
Cervena Barva Poetry Chapbook Prize
Chapter One Fiction Competition
Chapter One Promotions' International Open Short Story Competition
Chapter One Promotions' Open Poetry Competition
Chariton Review Short Fiction Prize
Charles Johnson Student Fiction Award
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Charlotte Newberger Prize for Poetry
Chautauqua Literary Journal Annual Contest
Chicago Literary Awards
Chicano/Latino Literary Prize
Chistell Writing Contest
Christian Publishers Poetry Prize
Christopher Isherwood Foundation Grants
Chroma International Queer Writing Competition
Cider Press Review Book Award
Cinnamon Press Novel Writing Award
Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award
Cintas Foundation Fiction Fellowship
City of Derby Short Story and Poetry Competition (The)
City Works National Writer's Award
Claremont Review Poetry & Fiction Contest (The)
Claudia Ann Seaman Award
Clay Reynolds Novella Prize
Cleveland State University First Book Competition
Cleveland State University Open Competition
Cloudbank Poetry & Prose Contest
CNW Writers-Editors Network Annual International Writing Competition
Coal Hill Review Chapbook Competition
Codhill Press Chapbook Award
Collision Poetry & Creative Nonfiction Contest
Colorado Prize for Poetry
Columbia Journal Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction Contest
Comment Poetry Contest
Common Ground Review Poetry Contest
Commonwealth Short Story Competition
Connecticut Authors & Publishers Association Writing Competition
Connecticut Poetry Award
Connecticut River Review Annual Poetry Contest
Consequence Prize in Poetry
Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Award
Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation
Cosmos Mariner Award
Costa Book Awards
Council for Wisconsin Writers Annual Writing Awards
Cowboy Up Short Story Contest
Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry - First Book Award
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry - Open Competition Award
Cream City Review Contests
Creative Loafing Fiction Contest
Creative Nonfiction Animals Contest
Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest
CreekFest Poetry Contest
Creekwalker Poetry Prize
Crucible Poetry and Fiction Competition
Cultural Center of Cape Cod National & Regional Poetry Competitions
Culture of Enterprise Student Essay Contest
Cup of Comfort Online Story Contest
CutBank Big Fish Online Contest
CWA Communications Contest
Cyclamens and Swords Poetry Contest

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