This is a non-fiction prize for undergraduates in the US, who are enrolled in an accredited 2- or 4-year college or university, and aged 18 and above (see guidelines). They will accept literacy narratives, literary and other textual analyses, reports, profiles, evaluations, arguments, memoirs, proposals, multimodal pieces, and other forms of original non-fiction pieces of 1,000-3,000 words. Entries require nomination by an instructor.
Value: Three prizes of $1,000 each
Deadline: 15 June 2026
Open for: Undergraduates in the US
Details here (you can download rules).
 
(Also see the Indigenous Creative Nonfiction Prize (Chapter House 2026 Summer Issue) for Indigenous writers; they want creative nonfiction on the theme, Celestial Bodies: Honoring the Stars, the Moon, and Sky. The deadline is 30th June 2026; see the relevant category in their Submittable for details.)

Deadline: June 15th, 2026