<p>Does anyone know of any prestigious, preferably nonfiction based, essay contests? Something with a national reach that would look good to place in?</p>
<p>anything that people have competed it?</p>
<p>For scientific essays, there's the DuPont Challenge (deadline's passed for this year)</p>
<p>anything politics related or like opinion pieces?</p>
<p>bump anything?</p>
<p>scholastic writing awards has a journalism category</p>
<p>But scholastic writing contests are over for this year, right?</p>