Scholarship Poetry Contests & Scholarship Essay Contests

There are many scholarships available to practically anyone who can string together a few sentences with some degree of logic and a reasonable amount of style. In other words, if you can write pretty well and/or present a logical argument in an eloquent manner, you may be able to pay for a chunk of your college with that very ability. Or maybe you fancy yourself a poet? Who knows? Maybe you are good enough at your craft to win a scholarship or two? The following are just some examples of poetry scholarships and essay scholarships for which almost anyone can qualify. Please feel free to explore some of these opportunities by clicking on the title of each of them. And don't forget to conduct a free scholarship search, too.

• Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest
  This one is pretty self-explanatory and top prize is ten grand, regardless of whether you are an undergrad or grad student. Just read the book, write an essay, maybe get ten thousand dollars.
• Dimensions in Poetry Today Live Poets Society Scholarship Contest
  All U.S. high school students are eligible to enter this contest. That eligibility is continuous until May 31 of their senior year. Poems must be 20 lines or less (title and spaces between stanzas do not count), unpublished, the sole work of the entrant, and not be entered in any other concurrent contest. Only poems written in the English language can be judged. Foreign phrases are acceptable only with a translation provided. Only one poem per poet may be entered during any 90 day span. There is no entry fee and no purchase of any kind is required to enter or win the contest, except for the self-addressed, stamped envelop required for entries sent through the US mail.
• Gradware National Essay Scholarship
  This one could be worth $1,000 to do with as you wish. Just describe how you envision the digital dorm room in the year 2020. What kind of emerging or future technologies do you think students of the future will be utilizing? How will the student's academic and dorm life change in the future due to these technologies?