• Young Georgia Authors Contest (grades K-12)
• The Georgia Council for the Arts Poet Laureate Prize (high school students)
  
• The Atlanta History Center’s Poetry Out Loud competition (high schools)
• The Booth Western Art Museum Writing Through Art Literary Competition (grades 9-12)
• Leslie Walker Writers of Promise (grades 3-12)

• NCTE's Achievement Awards in Writing 
• NCTE Students' Writing Awards Information (11th Grade)
• NCTE Promising Young Writers Award (8th Grade)
• T.A. Barron Prize for Real-Life Young Heroes (ages 8 to 18) who have initiated exemplary service projects.
• National Novel Writing Month (Nov. 1 - 30)

• “Live Deliberately” essay contest:

The Walden Woods Project’s Thoreau Institute is accepting submissions for the annual Live Deliberately Essay Contest. Students are asked to consider what their own deliberate lives look and feel like. Winners will be featured on the World Wide Waldens website and will receive a signed copy of Walden from the Thoreau Institute.