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Conversely Antidote Essay Contest - Annual contest for essays about female-male romantic relationships. Word limits: 750 (minimum), 2,000 (maximum). Cash prizes total $375. Entry fee: $7.50. Deadline: June 30.
Cup of Comfort Collections - Seeks true stories on various topics. Winning stories are published. Each collection has a grand prize of $500. All other published contributors receive $100 each. No reading fees. Length: 1,000 to 2,000 words. Deadlines vary.
Daniel Singer Prize - Original essays, in any language, are invited on the theme: "What Is the Soul of Socialism?" Cash prize: $5,000. Deadline: August 31st. No entry fees.
Event Creative Non-Fiction Contest - Annual contest for creative non-fiction offers $1,500 in prize money, plus publication. Maximum length: 5,000 words. Entry fee: $25. Deadline: April 15, 2004.
Future Thinking Writing Contest - An annual essay contest offers prize money of $65,000 for original prose on a given theme. The topic for 2003 was "Do We Need Nature?" Next deadline: August, 2004. No entry fees.
ISCID Essay Contests - ISCID sponsors annual essay contests on complexity, information, and design. Cash prizes are $1000 undergraduate and $2000 graduate. Deadline: June 1.
Nonfiction Writers Contest - ForthWrite Literary Agency sponsors a contest for aspiring nonfiction writers, who reside west of the Mississippi. Limit: 90 pages. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: May 28.
Power of Purpose Worldwide Essay Competition - Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, this contest seeks original essays on the importance of noble purpose in life and in nature. Cash prizes total US$500,000, including a grand prize of US$100,000. Word limit: 3,500. No entry fee. Deadline: May 31, 2004.
U.S. Naval Institute Annual Essay and Photo Contests - A number of essay contests are conducted throughout the year. Winning entries are published monthly in "Proceedings" magazine.
Write-Way Writers' Essay Contest - Seeks short essays on the theme, "Cinema Hits and Movie Misses". This theme is open to a wide number of acceptable interpretations. Maximum length: 1,000 words. No entry fees. Cash prizes total: $225. Winning entries will be published in a "Film Index" book. Deadline: January 31, 2005.
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