<p>does anyone have any suggestions of some prestigious national writing competitions?</p>
<p>NCTE achievement award in writing. Scholastic A&W awards. Uhmm… I’ll try and think of some others.</p>
<p>jegan3 covered the two I’ve heard of. NCTE you have to be nominated by your English teacher, I think. Scholastic, you have to flag down a teacher to do a rec.</p>
<p>Speaking of Scholastic, does anyone know when they start doing notifications?</p>
<p>haha i was JUST about to hijack this thread and ask about that jegan. apparently it’s the end of this month, but i dont know exactly. if it’s really the end of this month, then forget about it, scholastic 
i have more important news waiting for me lol</p>
<p>Haha I applied for Scholastic the day it was due… ergo, no recs -> “Poetry” category instead of Portolio. Ha.</p>
<p>If you feel like branching out into essay contests, there are also dozens of those. I don’t feel like listing them all… but FastWeb has them.</p>
<p>Recently I did the Newsweek My Turn essay contest, but I think the deadline is over now? But yeah, essay contests!</p>
<p>and next year I’m doing the Scholastic A&W Awards thing…</p>
<p>Besides those two very ambiguous and unhelpful suggestions, I’ve got nothing for you. They need to make some more writing-centered contests! All the prestigious awards are always about math or science – the two subjects from which I shy away. :x</p>
<p>I did the My Turn essay thing the night it was due, and I’m pretty sure I sounded like I was on crack…</p>
<p>The UNA-USA essay contest is pretty good, not sure how prestigeous it is, though</p>
<p>Haha yeah my essay pretty much sucked something awful. your crack essay was probably much much better than mine LOL.</p>
<p>una-usa? sounds familiar…</p>