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Contest News
ThinkQuest Internet Challenge is an international program for students ages 12 through 19 that encourages them to use the Internet to create information-rich Web-based educational tools and materials. Awards are handed out across five categories: Arts & Literature, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, Sports & Health and Interdisciplinary. 

Food and Cooking Contests

Bays English Muffin "Toast to Trivia" Contest.  Weekly. Prize is one case of Bays muffins.
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Music and Songwriting Contests

Great American Song Contest  Grand prize worth $500 in cash plus years membership in Taxi worth $300 plus a $200 gift certificate: $1000 value altogether.  Open to songwriters everywhere. The contest features Awards & Prizes for 45 winners in 9 categories. Judges include Grammy-nominated songwriters, music publishers and recording artists. ALL ENTRANTS receive a written evaluation of their songs. Categories are: Pop, Rock, Acoustic/Folk, Country, Christian/Gospel, Instrumental, R&B/Hip-Hop and a "Lyrics Only" category for lyricists. There's also a Special Music category for Patriotic, Novelty, Christmas & Children's songs. Sponsored by Songwriters Resource Network, a trusted education resource for songwriters everywhere.

American Organ Guild New Music Competitions and Commissions  Organ Music and Choral Music. Offers several $2,000 cash prizes.

American Songwriter Lyric Contest   Bimonthly prizes of $500 acoustic guitar. Yearly Grand prize: trip for two to Nashville and a $1500 Master Production Demo

Belham Valley Records Grand Prize Overall, $50,000, 2nd Overall, $20,000, 3rd Overall, $10,000 with 20 Individual Category prizes of $2,000, $1,000 and $500.  

"...Belham Valley Records Songwriting Contest (based in Maui, Hawaii) offers THE BIGGEST GRAND PRIZE, MORE PRIZE MONEY, and MORE SONG CATEGORIES than any other songwriting contest! Our ongoing competitions feature reduced entry fees for multiple submissions (please see Contest Rules). Read on...discover what we offer as compared to the other songwriting contests out there!

"Check out our song categories which include: Rock, Alternative, Pop, Jazz, R&B, Blues, Country/Folk, Reggae/Ska, Latin, New Age, Instrumental,  Gospel/Christian/Inspirational, Classical/Orchestral, World, Dance/Hip-Hop/Rap, Calypso, Hawaiian, Children's, Lyrics Only..."

Billboard Song Contest

Chris Austin Songwriting Contest

Composers Commissioning Program

Cooch Music Amateur Songwriting Contest.  $5 entry fee. $2200 acoustic guitar is grand prize.

Doc Watson Guitar Championship

Encore Productions Songwriting Contest  The URL changes yearly, so just click on "contest"

God's Gift Music Song Contest

John  Lennon Songwriting Contest 

"The John Lennon Songwriting Contest is open to both amateur and professional songwriters.

"Songs may be entered in any of the following twelve categories:

  • Rock
  • Country
  • Jazz
  • Pop
  • World
  • Rhythm & Blues
  • Gospel/Inspirational
  • Hip-Hop
  • Latin
  • Electronic
  • Folk
  • Special category of Children's music

"More than just a contest, the John Lennon Songwriting Contest offers songwriters one of the most valuable commodities in the music industry: OPPORTUNITY! Beyond the substantial cash prizes, some winners will receive EMI Music Publishing Contracts and Yamaha Project Studio Equipment. One entry will be named "Song of the Year" and that winner will receive an additional $20,000 in cash courtesy of Maxell. Overall, 120 winners will split over $200,000 in cash and prizes...."

McAllister Awards for Opera Singers Over $64,000 in prize money.

Merle Watson Mandolin Contest and Merle Watson Bluegrass Banjo Contest

Mid-Atlantic Song Contest

NACUSA Young Composers Competition

Napa Valley Music & Wine Festival Singer Songwriter Competition  

New Folk Concerts for Emerging Songwriters

Northwest Songwriting Competition (UK)

Portland Songwriters Assoc. Annual Songwriting Competition

Pulitzer Prize in Music

Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriter Showcase  Win a Custom guitar and Festival Main Stage

Rome Prize Fellowship in Musical Composition $10,000 to $20,000

Sierra Songwriter's Festival Contest

Songwriters' Drive-In Song Contest

Spotlight Stars Songwriting Contest  $500 prize

Telluride Troubadour Contest in conjunction with Telluride Blue Grass Festival.  Win Custom Guitar and Main Stage... also cash prizes.

Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Composers Competition   Awards more than $60,000 in grants and prizes annually.

Unisong International Song Contest

USA Songwriting Competition Songwriters, composers, lyricists, bandleaders, musicians  Over $50,000 in prizes

Whitefeather's Song Contests  $500, $200 and $100

Windrift Songwriting Competition $500, demo CD with 1,000 copies, artist homepage, free promotion. 

 
 
Contest Scams

Literary and Poetry Contest Scams  This is a large links list full of contests to avoid ... and even how to get your money back if you've been scammed. "Hidden among the many sponsors of legitimate literary contests advertised on the internet lurk those who care nothing about literature, its audience, or authors. These unscrupulous organizations and individuals exist solely to get into your wallet through their so-called writing or poetry contests. Often you'll find these free poetry contests lavishly advertised in your local newspaper."

Out of this World Contest:
Win a Piece of Mars!

This contest is apparently over... but the information is still fun to look at!
Win a Piece of Mars 
Own a piece of the rock -- Mars rock, that is. As another benefit of your participation in Team Encounter, you will be entered automatically in a contest to win a rare Zagami Mars Meteorite provided by Encounter 2001 LLC.  Your valuable collector’s item will be a piece of the world-famous Zagami Mars Meteorite. Only a dozen meteorites throughout the world are known to have originated on Mars. You’ll have a chance to own part of the Zagami, the largest single Mars meteorite ever found and one of the most sought after meteorites in the world!

Contest Directories

ContestGuide.com

Contests and Sweepstakes


Contest World

Contests for Everyone

National Enquirer Contest Page Lists a variety of interesting contests

Art Contests

The World of M. C. Escher Tessellation Contest  You can also register to win a free Escher poster, drawn monthly.

Puzzle Contests

Photo Puzzle Contest  $100 awarded daily

Arts and Kids Puzzle Contest   T-Shirt awarded daily

Gardening Contests

Test your skill in the garden contest

Photo Contests

"The International Library of Photography is now accepting entries for its amateur photography competition. The contest is open to everyone and entry is free."

The International Library of Photography "...sponsors open amateur photography contests and online contests several times yearly. Thousands of people enter our contests. Each year, approximately 400 contest entrants win cash prizes and 1,200 win gift prizes. There is an Annual Grand Prize of $10,000.00. Each individual contest awards a $1,000.00 Grand Prize, forty First Prizes of gifts with a retail value of at least $35.00, four in each category and seventy-three Second Prizes of gifts with a retail value of at least $25.00 each without regard to category. Duplicate prizes are awarded in case of ties. Every day, we also award two $50.00 puzzle prizes for a total of 730 additional prizes each year. The International Library of Photography offers the world’s largest prize fund available to amateur photographers. Over the past five years, our organization has awarded over $75,000.00 in cash to amateur artists throughout the world."

Space Contests

The X PRIZE Foundation was established in 1994 as an educational nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring private, entrepreneurial advancements in space travel. Through the X PRIZE -- an international competition that will award a $10 million cash prize to the first private team who safely launches and lands a vehicle capable of transporting three people on two consecutive suborbital flights to 100 kilometers altitude -- the Foundation plans to challenge present notions that only governments can send people and cargo into space.

The X PRIZE has been created for one purpose: to realize the dream of spaceflight for the general public. New and innovative spaceships will be created in pursuit of the prize. These vehicles will enable such markets as rapid intercontinental passenger and cargo transport, space tourism, and access to the bounty of resources available in space.

Annual International Space Settlement Design Competition This event is an industry simulation set in the future. Teams of High School students prepare designs for cities in space where over 10,000 people will live.

Space Settlement Design Competition  Another one!

NASA Ames Annual Space Settlement Contest Here are some highlights from previous competitions.

Avatar's Time Travel Triva Sweepstakes  enter to win one of 750 Avatar Watches

Sports Contests

Pinnacle's $1,000,000 extreme long drive contest.

ReMax $250,000 World Long Drive Championship

Invention Contests

"Man will always find a complicated means to perform a simple task" -- Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg Machine Contest The object of the Rube Goldberg Contest is to build the most INEFFICIENT device to perform a specified function in 20 OR MORE steps. "....Students use household items to try to build the most complex machine possible, to accomplish a simple task. For example, to turn the page of a book, a machine might include balls, string, various toys, pulley systems, old bicycle parts, mousetraps, recycled junk and more. The wackier the better! By building these crazy contraptions, students gain invaluable skills in creativity and science. Plus, it's fun!..."
 
Literary and Poetry Contests  Which May be Scams

Literary and Poetry Contest Scams  This is a large links list full of contests to avoid ... and even how to get your money back if you've been scammed. "Hidden among the many sponsors of legitimate literary contests advertised on the internet lurk those who care nothing about literature, its audience, or authors. These unscrupulous organizations and individuals exist solely to get into your wallet through their so-called writing or poetry contests. Often you'll find these free poetry contests lavishly advertised in your local newspaper."

Warning About Poetry.com

Here are some of the contest being warned about:

Iliad Press and National Authors Registry

Poetry Contests at Poetry.com


Poetry Contest  Monthly. Online Submission.

Haiku Contest  Win a mug and a mousepad with your haiku on it.

Poetry in Motion Contest  "Create your poem from the selection of words presented. When finished with your composition, click "submit." Your entry will be time stamped at the exact second that it is received by us." Play for $100 daily.

Poetry Contests

WinningWriters.com sponsors an annual War Poetry Contest

LoadTV "Watch and Win" Contests  LoadTV says they are "the internet's largest provider of TV quality video" Subscribe for Free. Watch 2-4 minute clips to enter contest.

Writers and Screenplay Writers Contests

L. Ron Hubbard's Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest  "Established and sponsored by L. Ron Hubbard in 1983, the “Writers’ Award Contest” was a budding competition aimed at discovering, and eventually publishing, deserving amateur and aspiring writers. The field of speculative fiction, an embracing term for science fiction and fantasy, was chosen not only for Mr. Hubbard’s love of and success within the genre—but for the freedom of imagination and expression which it allowed as “a herald of possibility.”

At the time of its inception, the very idea of a contest of this scope and of a book filled with first-time fiction by amateur writers was seen in many literary venues as “untried” and “challenging,” but at the same time as something both “desirable” and “long-needed.” Expert opinions said it couldn’t be done.

Screenplay and TV writing contests  Frequently updated and comprehensive listing of contests.

Win a Sony DVD Camera
Submit your short film to the RSUBOX Short Film Contest, attain round-the-clock global exposure for your tormented artistic vision, catch crazy props from the new media underground, and maybe bag a free digital camera, or even our Grand Prize, a Sony DVD camera. We name new winner every week.

Web Design

The Inc. Web Awards competition... honors small companies and individual entrepreneurs who use their Web sites to achieve business goals.

The 2001 application deadline has passed. Want a reminder to enter next year's event? Watch this space. We'll post the application opening and closing dates here after Jan. 1, 2002. Or send an e-mail message to webawards@inc.com. Important: Please put "Notify Me About 2002" in your message's subject line.

Meanwhile, if you'd like more general information about the Web Awards, please see our Frequently Asked Questions and coverage of past winners.

 

 
 

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