Eligibility Requirements

Applicants to the Georgia Writers Registry (GWR) must be residents of Georgia and must also earn a minimum of 12 publication points based on the following point system:

12 Points

• Each book of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or creative non-fiction
• Each play produced by a professional theatre (equity contract)

6 Points

• Each chapbook
• Staged readings of plays by professional theatres or professional playwright’s organizations

3 Points

• Each work of fiction, non-fiction, or creative non-fiction published in a literary journal, anthology, or edited Web publication
• Each poem published in a literary journal, anthology, or edited Web publication

Ineligible Publications

• Publications from vanity presses
• Self-published work
• Work from presses that do not offer authors standard book contracts
• Work published by a journal or anthology for which one makes editorial decisions
• Translations