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W.B. Yeats Society Annual Poetry Competition
W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction
Waasmode Short Fiction Prize
Wabash Prize for Fiction
Wabash Prize for Poetry
Wag's Revue Poetry & Prose Contest
Walker Percy Prize in Short Fiction
Wallace W. Winchell Poetry Competition
Walt Whitman Award
Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant
Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition
Warren Adler Short Story Contest
Washington Poets Association Annual Poetry Contest
Washington Square Poetry & Fiction Contest
Washington State Book Awards
Washington Writers' Fiction Contest
Washington Writers' Poetry Contest
Waterman Fund Alpine Essay Contest
Wednesday Club Junior Poetry Contest
Wednesday Club Poetry Prize
Wells Festival of Literature International Poetry Competition
Wells Festival of Literature International Short Story Competition
West Town Press Poetry Chapbook Competition
West Virginia Fiction Competition
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival Poetry and Short Story Contest
WFNB Poetry & Fiction Contest
Whiskey Island Annual Poetry & Fiction Contest
White Crane/James White Poetry Prize
White Eagle Coffee Store Press Chapbook Contest
White Mice Poetry Contest
White Pelican Review Poetry Contest
White Pine Press Poetry Prize
WHY* (Work. Home. You.) Writing Contest
Wick Poetry Chapbook Open Competition
Wick Poetry High School Competition
Wick Student Poetry Competition
Wicked Words Contest
Wigtown Poetry Competition
Wild Leaf Press Annual Poetry Contest
Wild Violet Writing Contests
Wild Words Contest
Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest
Will Inman Poetry Contest
Willard R. Espy Award
William Allen Creative Nonfiction Prize
William Carlos Williams Award
William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition
William Dunbar Poetry Book Contest
William Faulkner/William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
William Richey Short Story Contest
William Saroyan Centennial Prizes
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
William Saroyan Story Writing Contest for Students
William Stafford Prize for Poetry (The)
William Van Wert Memorial Fiction Award
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
Willow Books Poetry Prize
Willow Springs Fiction Prize
Winston Collins/Descant Prize for the Best Canadian Poem
Wisconsin People & Ideas Short Story & Poetry Contests
Women Artists Datebook Contest
Women in Judaism Writing Competition
Women Who Write Poetry and Short Prose Contest
WomenEtcetera! Writing Contest
Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award
Word Works Washington Prize
Words & Images Dos Cosas Award
Words About Work Contest
Words of Love Writing Contest
WordSmitten TenTen Fiction Competition
Wordstock Short Fiction Competition
WORK Literary Magazine Employee of the Month Contest
WOW! Women on Writing Quarterly Contest
Write Queer London
Write Real Good Poetry Chapbook Contest
Write2Help Poetry and Short Fiction Contests
Writecorner Press Annual Poetry Award
Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award (The)
Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition
Writer's Digest Poetry Awards
Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Awards
Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Award
Writer's Digest Short-Short Story Competition
Writers at Work Fellowship Competition
Writers at Work Fiction Competition
Writers Bureau Poetry & Short Story Contest (The)
Writers' & Artists' Yearbook Short Story Competition
Writers' Circle of Durham Region Poetry Chapbook Challenge
Writers' Circle of Durham Region Short Story Contest
Writers' Dock Annual Poetry Competition
Writers' Forum Poetry Competition
Writers' Journal Fiction Contest
Writers' Journal Horror/Ghost Story Contest
Writers' Journal Science Fiction/Fantasy Contest
Writers' Journal Short Story Contest
Writers' League of Texas Book Award
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Writers' Union of Canada Postcard Story Competition
Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers
Writers' Union of Canada Writing for Children Competition
Writers' Village Best Writing Award
Writers' Workshop "Meet the Authors" Writing Contest
Writers' Workshop Annual Memoirs Contest
Writers' Workshop Annual Poetry Contest
Writers' Workshop Annual Short Fiction Contest
Writers' Workshop Young Writers' Contest
Writers' Workshop Young Writers' Essay Contest
Writers' Workshop Young Writers' Fantasy & Science Fiction Contest
Writing It Real "Mothers and Fathers" Poetry and Essay Contest
Writing It Real No-Contest Contest
Writing It Real Summer/Fall Poetry and Essay Contest
Writing Spirit Award
WYMD Essay Contest

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