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The Loraine Williams Poetry Prize is an annual award for a single poem, to be published in The Georgia Review. The winner will receive an honorarium of $1,500.
Annual time frame: Submissions to be considered for the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize must be sent either online from February 15 through May 15 or by regular mail postmarked within the same span of time. The winning poem and author will be announced by August 15, and the poem will appear in the Winter issue of the same year. All submitted poems will be considered for publication in The Georgia Review; any selected will be paid our regular poetry honorarium of $4 per line.
Please note that students, faculty, staff, and administrators currently affiliated with the University of Georgia are ineligible for the LWPP. Intimate friends, relatives, colleagues, and former or current students of a judge are also ineligible to enter. Previous winners of our contest should wait three years before entering again.
Full details for the 2025 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize will be announced later this year.
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The Georgia Review thanks the late Loraine Williams for her sponsorship of this prize. Ms. Williams was a longtime Atlanta-based patron of the arts.