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The Georgia Review is pleased to announce we have been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $10,000. This grant will offset costs for a year’s worth of publication, …

Athens, GA—The Georgia Review congratulates Felicia Zamora, who was selected by judge Dawn Lundy Martin as the winner of the tenth annual Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Zamora will receive $1,500 for her poem “A Quadriptych: Sonnets to Break the …

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Georgia Review Prose Prize contest, which will be judged by Jennine Capó Crucet. The best short story and essay will both be published in The Georgia Review. This year the overall …

The Georgia Review is delighted to welcome Maggie Su, who joins us as the new associate prose editor. Maggie moved to Athens from Cincinnati, where she recently completed her PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. At The …

The Georgia Review was delighted to win the 2022 American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) Award for Fiction with stories published in the 2021 volume year: “After God, Fear Women,” by Eloghosa Osunde, “Come With Me,” …

The Georgia Review is proud to congratulate Aria Curtis, Sadia Hassan, and Tanya Rey for winning the SoPoCo Emerging Writer Fellowship. Curtis, Hassan, and Rey will each receive a $1,500 honorarium and give a reading in Athens, Georgia. Their work …

Stephen Dunn’s passing on 24 June 2021—his eighty-second birthday—was an especially sad and noteworthy moment in The Georgia Review’s seventy-four-year history—and also for me, because I had the pleasure and honor of calling him a friend for more than …

Athens, GA—The Georgia Review is proud to congratulate Mathew Weitman, who was selected by judge Arthur Sze as the winner of the ninth annual Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Weitman will receive $1,500 for his poem “The Death of …