Augusta based poets Alice Johnson and Lucinda Clark will close out 2025 with a open mic which brings the local poet voices to the stage. The event which will be hosted at Jessye Norman School of the Arts is sponsored by Georgia Poetry Society and the Poetry Matters Project. Clark the founder of Poetry Matters Project celebrates twenty five years of showcasing poetic voices globally.
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.





