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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 …

Athens, GA—The Georgia Review is proud to announce the inclusion of a dozen of its pieces in a joint project by the New York Public Library Schomburg Center and JSTOR. In 2020, the Schomburg Center, whose mission is “the …

2 March 2021

The Georgia Review was delighted to learn that Isaac Hughes Green’s story “The First Time I Said It,” published in our Fall 2020 issue, was selected for a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging …

The Georgia Review has been approved for a $ 10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support a special issue titled SoPoCo, for “Southern Post-Colonial,” celebrating the voices, history, and cultures of diasporic communities that have established themselves in the …

Athens, GA—The Georgia Review is proud to offer congratulations to Hannah Perrin King, who was selected by judge Ilya Kaminsky as the winner of the eighth annual Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. King will receive $1,500 for her poem, “Transcript …

The Georgia Review is pleased to congratulate Janisse Ray, whose essay “The Lonely Ruralist” has been honored with a Pushcart Prize. The essay, which appeared in our Fall 2019 issue, recounts Ray’s struggle to adapt to life …

Dear Readers,

Here at The Georgia Review, we’d begun preparing our regular letter to you about an upcoming issue, when droves of Americans—documented and not—came together in unprecedented numbers, risking their well-being to protect the most vulnerable of their …