

Dahlonega
Literary Festival
An Annual Celebration of Readers, Writers, and Books
Submissions for 2025 will begin on January 1, 2024.
The 2024 Literary Festival is Fully Booked
Thank you for your patience.
HOW TO APPLY TO BE A 2025 REGIONAL WRITER
The Review/Selection Process for selecting our 2025 Regional Writers is under way! (The 2024 roster for Regional Writers is full at this time.) The Dahlonega Literary Festival has two levels of authors: Featured Authors and Regional Writers.
Featured Authors are best-selling New York Times authors, as well as first-time award-winning authors. These nationally-known authors are writers of fiction and non-fiction books, representing a variety of genres. Featured Authors are well known, published authors who are invited to attend our Festival.
Regional Writers are authors who are published with traditional publishers or self-published. They have perhaps written several books or perhaps just one. They are usually from the Southeastern United States, but we accept applications from authors who live anywhere. Regional Writers contact us, apply for selection, and submit a book for review. They must be selected by one of our Reviewers. Regional Writers may participate in Festival programming IF selected by the Programming Committee to do so.
Authors interested in applying to participate as a Regional Writer in the 2025 Festival should contact Dr. Patricia Godsave at patricia.godsave@ung.edu for more information.
The genres of books that are considered for selection in the Regional Writers section include Fiction (mysteries, thrillers, fantasy, sci-fi, romance, historical fiction, and regional fiction), non-fiction (history, biographies, and memoirs), poetry, travel, the arts, cookbooks, juvenile fiction/non-fiction, and young adult fiction/non-fiction.