CONTESTS

November 1 
Annual Young Writers Award Competition (Bennington College)
Grades: 10th, 11th, 12th

November 14 (online)/November 26 (postmark)/November 26 (video) 
First Freedom Student Competition
Grades: 9th. 10th, 11th, 12th

December     
VSA Call for Submissions
Grades: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

December 15
Being an American Writing Contest
Grades: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

January 6
Letters for Literature Competition 
Grades: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

January 31
The DuPont Challenge Science Essay Competition
Grades: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th 

February 15
Achievement Award in Writing (NCTE)
Grades: 10th, 11th, 12th

March 1
EngineerGirl Contest 
Grades: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

TBA
Norman Mailer High School & College Writing Awards for Creative Nonfiction (NCTE & Norman Mailer Center)
Grades: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

TBA 
Arts & Writing Contest (Georgia Commission on the Holocaust)
Grades:  9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

check website 
Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest (NEA & Poetry Foundation)
Grades: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

check website for various contest deadlines
Creative Communication Poetry and Essay Contests
Grades: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

ongoing Laws of Life Essay Contest (NSBA)
Grades: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

ongoing Teen Ink (The Young Authors Foundation, Inc.)
Grades: 9th,. 10th, 11th, 12th