Selecting Literature, Writing, & Film Materials: Award Books

More than 12 poetry awards including the especially prestigious James Laughlin Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Walt Whitman Award.

Winners of four Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) awards. Categories include creative nonfiction, novel, poetry, and short fiction

Formerly Man Booker Prizes. Award for English language books published in the UK or Ireland.

Unterberg Poetry Center. 92Y's poetry contest

Canadian and international poetry awards for English language poetry. Shortlists and winners.

Formerly Man Booker International Prize. Award for non-English language books published in the UK or Ireland

Independent Publisher Book Awards in 88 categories, including Poetry - Standard and Poetry - Specialty, plus ebook and regional categories

These are two separate poetry awards

Categories include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and lifetime achievement.

Link out to find the current and previous winners of 27 MLA prizes

Includes winners and finalists

List of current award winners. Link to past winners on the side. Categories include fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, criticism, poetry, John Leonard Prize, Nana Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, and Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

Lists and links to the other 12 competitions they put on (other than the National Poetry Competition)

Put out by the Library of Congress. List of consultants & poets laureate

Fourteen awards

Award winners are not listed here, but previous winners back to 1976 are listed in each volume

Annual prize for the best new poetry collection published in the UK and Ireland.

The oldest annual literary award in the United States. Open to any American who has not previously published a volume of poetry

Writings contests, grants, and awards

Information and links for submission to its various awards and publications

List of prizes awarded by MLA with links to information about nominations and submissions

Submission process and contacts