2025 LGBTQIA+ Literary Success Grants
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Georgia Writers Association's LGBTQIA+ Literary Success Grants are designed to encourage and amplify the voices of LGBTQIA+ youth (18-24) in Georgia. At a time when the country possesses a record number of anti-LGBTQ legislation (400+ bills and counting), we believe it is our responsibility to promote positive stories of queer life in the South. As LGBTQIA+ organizations have long known, stories can be life-saving. We believe that by promoting these young queer voices state-and nationwide, we will offer models for success that all young queer people in the state of Georgia can aspire to.
Generously supported by the Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA), the four LGBTQIA+ Literary Success Grants will be awarded annually, one each in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and screenwriting. Winning recipients will receive $500 each, and a full scholarship to attend and read their work at the 2025 Red Clay Writers Conference. There is no submission fee to enter.
Deadline: Monday, March 10th, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. ET.
Qualifications:
- Applicants must be LGBTQIA+ writers, ages 18-24, residing and/or studying in the state of Georgia for at least one year.
- Applicants are ineligible if they have published more than one traditionally published book.
- Writers who are eligible may apply annually but may only win a grant once. There is no submission fee to enter.
- Applications will be reviewed anonymously.
- Applicants are ineligible if they are of relations to any of the Georgia Writers staff or board of directors.
Guidelines:
Writers may apply in only one genre and must submit the following:
—A completed grant application;
—An artist statement of 500 words (max.) as a concise description of your work and goals as a writer. Please tell us what inspires or challenges your writing career;
—A writing sample of 10 pages (max.) in the genre in which you are applying: fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. If submitting poetry, only one poem per page please. (Please do not include any identifying information in the writing sample.)