Based on methodology of literary sociology, the aim of this article is to analyze types of literary awards in colleges and position in literary field. With analytic focus on types, the major findings include three aspects: First, only 40% of colleges conduct literary awards regularly; Second, most colleges conduct with insider judges; Third, the major prizes are on prose, poetry and novel. As to the position of academic literary awards in the literary field, 44% of traditional writers have received the literary awards, and the percentage of internet writers are nearly equal, which would be more than 56% of laureates, but only 2.1% of 729 traditional writers who had received the academic literary award record it on their prize-receiving experiences. The underrepresented statistics imply that people pay little importance to papillary literary awards, by contrast, internet writers who are now on the fringe of literary field would take papillary literary awards more seriously; moreover, among 60 internet writers who have received the literary awards, there are 41.1% of them were laureates of papillary literary award, and this fact becomes the highest rate among all the types of literary awards, and it also represents the implication that the young writers value the experience of receiving academic literary awards more higher than other do.