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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. 92NY's poetry contest

Canadian and international poetry awards for English language poetry.

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

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

Annual poetry competition. Titles and publication details of winning poems back to 1978 can be accessed through a drop down menu on the side.

Literary awards program that sponsors the publication of five books of poetry each year. Names of winners back to 1979 can be access from a menu on the side.

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

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually since 1901 by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden to poets from around the globe. Access to the names of the winners by decade is available here.

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

Annual awards are given in seven categories back to 2001. This list of winners is in date order, but there is an option for award order. Access to poets' names and poems are provided.

14 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded to American writers since 1917. A total of 29 categories were added later and some of the original categories were discontinued. Access to prize winners by subject is available here. A link to prize winners by year is at the top.

Award winners are not listed, but small press winners for each year, back to 1976, are listed in each volume. The UWW libraries have many of the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press volumes. Search Research@UWW and select the title you want for a specific year to see the names of winners and the titles of their works.

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

Select the "Read More" text to see what the Wisconsin Poet Laureate has published.

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