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Winning Writers finds and creates essential resources for poets and writers. Subscribe to our free email newsletter and get instant access to profiles of over 150 quality free poetry contests. Our larger premium database, Poetry Contest Insider, profiles over 750 poetry contests, plus over 300 of the top prose contests. We sponsor the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (no fee) and the War Poetry Contest, and assist the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest, the Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse and the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest.

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March 16, 2010
Daily s-Press
Dorothee Lang, editor of BluePrintReview, an English-language online literary journal based in Germany, began this blog in March 2010 to review new bo...

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Hiett Prize in the Humanities
Deadline May 15, formerly October 15. Highly recommended free contest offers a $50,000 fellowship to a US citizen or permanent resident who has not ye...

March 15, 2010
An Economy of Talents
In this essay from Iota Magazine, Paul Maddern (co-winner of the 2009 Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Competition) surveys the history of poetr...

March 15, 2010
Call for Submissions: WritingRaw
Deadline April 1 (must be received by this date). WritingRaw is an online journal featuring interviews with prominent authors and literary agents, as ...

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Over 750 poetry contests ranked and profiled, along with over 300 of the best fiction and essay contests. Search and sort by deadline, prize, fee and more. Includes all the contests in The Best Free Poetry Contests. Library of links to award-winning poems, interviews with contest judges and editors. $9.95/quarter. Instant access to entire database. Free 10-day trial. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

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War Poetry Contest
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Submission period: November 15, 2009-May 31, 2010. $5,000 in cash prizes, including a top prize of $2,000. Seeks today's best poetry on the theme of war. Enter up to three poems for $15.

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Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
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Submission period: August 15, 2009-April 1, 2010. $3,600 in cash prizes, including a top prize of $1,500. Seeks today's best humor poems. Free to enter.

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Contests Assisted by Winning Writers

Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest
Submission Period: July 15, 2009-March 31, 2010
$5,550 in prizes
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Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse
Submission Period: November 15, 2009-June 30, 2010
$5,550 in prizes
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Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest
Submission Period: December 15, 2009-September 30, 2010
$5,550 in prizes
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