Winners in each genre will receive:

—A grant of $500 to give a reading at our Red Clay Writers Conference

—A scholarship to the next annual Red Clay Writers Conference

Applicants must be 18 - 24 years of age and emerging writers who are queer residents of Georgia for at least one year, or full-time students at a Georgia college or university at the time of application and on the date of the award.

• Applicants are ineligible if they have published more than one traditionally published book. Promising writers without publication will be considered. 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.

Writers may apply in only one genre and must submit the following:

—A completed grant application

—An essay of no more tha 500 words as a concise description of your work and goals as a writer. Please tell us what inspires or challenges your writing career.

—No more than a ten-page writing sample of a published or unpublished piece in the genre in which you are applying--fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or screenwriting. If submitting poetry, one poem per page please.

—Please format your manuscript: 12 pt. font, double-spaced, name and page number on each page.