Free Contests

Free Writing Contests

Funds For Writers - essay about your life, up to 750 words.
Free contest details:
Prize: 1st USD 50
Deadline: October 31, 2007
Shenandoah - essay on any aspect of Robert Penn Warren's work. The word limit for the essay is 5,000 words.
Free contest details:
Prize: 1st USD 500
Deadline: August 15, 2007
Jerry Jazz Musisician - original, previously unpublished work of approximately one - five thousand words.
Free contest details:
Prize: 1st USD 100
Deadline: Septemeber 30, 2007
ReadingWriters - 500 word story with a beginning, a middle and an ending (not a word more), multiple submissions are accepted
Free contest details:
Prize: 1st USD 100 and publication in The Verb writing magazine
Deadline: December 31, 2007
Intergeneration Foundation - story that can not exceed 600 words and must be an original, unpublished work. Entries may include one illustration, such as an original photo, drawing, painting, or cartoon. Fiction or non-fiction must be indicated, intergeneration theme, at least 2 characters of different generations.
Free contest details:
Prize: 1st: USD 500, 2nd USD 300, 3rd USD 100 plus all three gets publication on their website
Deadline: October 7, 2007
Mothrewise - enter a short story (up to 300 words) about parenting. Three selections each month are chosen and posted online. Readers vote on the winner throughout the month. The votes are counted at the month's end.
Free contest details:
Prize: Motherwise mug
Deadline: monthly contest
Bookhitch - collaborative book writing, each chapet should be no more than 4,500 words, written in the third person point of view and the end should be open (so the next person can add their work).
Free contest details:
Prize: all profits from the sale of the book will be donated to non-profit educational organizations working to improve literacy and the lives of young adults.
BetUS Dream Job - sport writing contest. Entries must be at least 750 words in length. You can enter as many submissions as you like, but each entry must be submitted separately.
Free contest details:
Price: weekly prize USD 100 Free Play. Grand Prize: USD 5,000 sports writing contract with BETUS for the 2007 NFL season
Deadline: start of NFL 2007

Free poetry contests

Trellis Magazine - poems in one of the three sonnet forms - Petrarchan, Shakespearian and Spencerian.
Free contest details:
Price: 1st USD 30 Amazon gift certificate, 2nd USD 20 Amazon gift certificate and 3rd place USD 10 Amazon gift certificate
Deadline: Ocotber 31, 2007
PoetryAmerica - poetry contest for residents of North America, no age limit, only one poem per person
Free contest details:
Prize: USD 6000 in prizes
Deadline: ?

Free photo contests

The Dabbling Mum - photo contest where you should take a photo that depicts what Easter means to your family
Free contest details:
Prize: My Bedbugs book
Deadline: September 15, 2007

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