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Which story won Edgar Allan Poe a $50 prize in 1833?
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The story that won Edgar Allan Poe a $50 prize in 1833 is titled "MS. Found in a Bottle."1
The short story was submitted to and won a contest held by the Baltimore weekly publication Saturday Visiter in October 1833. This work is considered one of Poe's first notable achievements and was later included in his 1840 collection, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.1