Free contest, The Atlantic 2010 Student Writing Contest , poetry/ fiction/ essays, top prize: $1000

Deadline: 1 December 2010

Categories:

Poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays

Prizes:

First - $1,000
Second - $500
Third - $250
and one-year subscriptions to The Atlantic for the runners-up in each category.

Entrants

Must be full-time undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled in an accredited degree-granting U.S. institution, or 2010 graduates of a four-year undergraduate program. Submissions should be original, unpublished work (they may have appeared in student periodicals) demonstrating superior quality of expression and craftmanship.

Submissions

Should not exceed three poems or 7,500 words of prose. No entrant may send more than one submission per category, and entries must be postmarked by December 1, 2010.

Send entries to

Student Writing Contest
The Atlantic
600 New Hampshire Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20037

More information here.