- ISCID Essay Contests - http://www.iscid.org/essaycontests.php
ISCID sponsors annual essay contests on complexity, information, and design. Cash prizes are $1000 undergraduate and $2000 graduate. Deadline: June 1.
- Future Thinking Writing Contest - http://www.shelleconomistprize.com
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.
- Cup of Comfort Collections - http://www.cupofcomfort.com/share.htm
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.
- Event Creative Non-Fiction Contest - http://event.douglas.bc.ca/contest.html
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.
- Write-Way Writers' Essay Contest - http://writenews.exactpages.com
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.
- Daniel Singer Prize - http://www.danielsinger.org
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.
- Conversely Antidote Essay Contest - http://www.conversely.com/Masth/conte.shtml
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.
- Ayn Rand Institute Annual Essay Contests - http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_contests_index
Annual cash awards for short, original, unpublished essays on the philosophic themes in Ayn Rand's novels, "Anthem", "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged", are open respectively to all US 9th and 10th graders, 11th and 12th graders and college students.
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