HERE ARE SOME COOL CONTESTS THAT ARE FREE TO ENTER

Closed for the Year

5th grade only - Deadline for all essay submissions is February 12th, 2012.    http://www.courageinmycommunity.com/default.html
The contest encourages students to explore and write about their own experience with courage and how this experience has made an impact in their lives.

http://writingconference.com/contest.htm The deadline for all entries is January 8, 2012 winners will be notified in February 2012.

Students may create a poem, a narrative, or an essay.

http://www.lettersaboutliterature.org/how_to_enter/faqs    January 6, 2012. This is a postmark deadline. 

write a reflective letter to an author

http://www.momentmag.com/moment/contests/pak.html  The deadline for the 2012 contest is March 3, 2012!

write a review of a a book from a list of books provided

EngineerGirl! Food Engineering Essay Contest - 2012 http://www.engineergirl.org/?id=14100#Guidelinesv  Entries must be received by 6:00 p.m. (EST) on March 1, 2012.

Write an essay about how certain foods are produced.

http://www.tshaonline.org/education/students/writing-awards  Entry Submission Deadline: March 1, 2012

paper that analyzes the contributions of positive leadership by a leader(s) in Texas history.

http://www.drtinfo.org/education/essay-contests    March 2, 2012.

Write an essay on Bigfoot Wallace or Susanna Dickinson, Survivor of the Alamo

http://www.weeklyreader.com/spc   All entries must be postmarked by March 16, 2012

Non-fiction writing

http://wildcat.wsc.edu/clubs/willycon/gen/short_story/  April 20-22, 2012

You may submit a maximum of and one short story and two poems of no more than 50 lines in length.

http://www.legacyproject.org/contests/ltal.html#hteanchor  Friday, March 30, 2012.

Write an essay after interviewing your grandparent.

These Contests are not Yet Closed

Totem's Mystery Writing Contest  Send your entry before 31 Dec 2012.

 http://www.youngvoicesfoundation.org/youngvoiceshome.html  Accepting Submissions March 15, 2012 - May 30, 2012