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Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose
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Adroit Summer Mentorship Program
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Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Prize
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Americans Against Gun Violence National High School Essay Contest
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Bennington Young Writers Awards
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Best New Poets
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Bill of Rights MyImpact Contest
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Black Warrior Review Contest
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Blue Marble Review
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Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Contest
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COUNTERCLOCK Emerging Writers Awards
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California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA)
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Carl Sandburg Student Poetry Contest
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Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Awards
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Concord Review
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Davidson Literature Fellows Scholarship
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Djanikian Scholarship in Poetry
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Electric Literature & Symphony Space Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize
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Ellipsis Writing Workshops
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Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Young Playwrights Festival
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Fir Acres Writing Workshop
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Fitzgerald Museum Literary Contest
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Foreign Service National High School Essay Contest
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Foyle Young Poets
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Frontier Poetry OPEN
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Gigantic Sequins Teen Sequins
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Grubstreet Teen Writing Fellowship
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Hanging Loose Press
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Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry & Medicine Poetry Prize
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Iowa Young Writers Studio
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It's All Write Teen Writing Contest
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JFK Profile in Courage Essay Contest
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JUST POETRY!!! The National Poetry Quarterly High School Poetry Contest
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Jane Austen Society Essay Contest
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Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize for Canadian Youth
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John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize
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Kenyon Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize
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Kenyon Young Writers Workshop
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Ledbury Young Poets Competition
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Leyla Beban Foundation $1000 for 1000 Words Writing Contest
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Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest
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Narrative Magazine High School Contest
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National History Day Contest
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National Scholastic Press Association Awards
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National Youth Poet Laureate
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New York Times Summer Reading Contest
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Norm Strung Student Writing Contest
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One Teen Story Contest
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PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize
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POETRY Magazine
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PTSA Annual Reflections Award, Literature Category
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Penguin Random House Creative Writing Awards
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Penn Review Prizes
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Poetry Society of America Student Poetry Award
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Poetry Society of New York Youth Poetry Contest
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Polyphony Lit
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Presidential Scholars in the Arts
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Princeton University Leonard L. Milberg ’53 High School Poetry Prize
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Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts 10-Minute Play Contest
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Pulitzer Center Fighting Words Poetry Contest
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Quill & Scroll Awards
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Rattle Young Poets Anthology
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Regional Youth Poet Laureate
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Represent Magazine Stories by Teens in Foster Care
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Ringling College Storytellers of Tomorrow Creative Writing Contest
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Saint Mary’s College of California River of Words Contest
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SandPiper Review
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Scholastic National Student Poets
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Scholastic Portfolio Medals
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Sewanee Young Writers Workshop
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Skipping Stones Magazine
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Smith College Poetry Prize
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Stanford Summer Creative Writing
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Stone Soup
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Teen Ink
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Telluride Institute Cantor Prize
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Telluride Institute Fischer Prize
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The America Library of Poetry Student Poetry Contest
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The Apprentice Writer
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The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival
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The Incandescent Studio
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The Kelly Writers House Summer Workshop
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The Milking Cat
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The Smokelong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction
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The University of Virginia Young Writer’s Workshop
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Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
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Trinity College, Cambridge's Philosophy Essay Prize
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Veasna So Scholarship in Fiction
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Vermont College of Fine Arts’ Hunger Mountain International Young Writers Prize
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Virginia B. Ball Writing Competition
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Walt Whitman Student Poetry Contest
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Writopia Lab Writing Workshops
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Young Lions Fiction Award
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YoungArts
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YouthPLAYS New Voices One Act Competition for Young Playwrights
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Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine
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