The 2023 Porter Fleming Literary Competition, now in its twenty-ninth year, recognizes outstanding fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. Writers ages18 and older who reside in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia are invited to enter. The deadline for submissions is February 13, 2023.

The competition awards cash prizes totaling $7,000. Entry forms and guidelines can be found onwww.themorris.org/porterfleming The competition is organized and administered by the Morris Museum of Art, with the support of the Porter Fleming Foundation.

The writing competition is held in memory of Porter Fleming, a prominent citizen of Augusta, Georgia. In 1963, Porter Fleming¹s son, Berry Fleming, who had himself achieved renown as a writer, artist, and philanthropist, established a charitable foundation in honor of his father. To this day, The Porter Fleming Foundation contributes to the educational, literary, artistic, scientific, historical, musical, and cultural enrichment of the lives of the residents of the City of Augusta and the geographical area immediately adjacent to it in Georgia and South Carolina. 

Porter Fleming Literary Competition winners receive cash awards, which will be presented in a special ceremony in April 2023 at the Morris Museum of Art.

The Morris Museum of Art was founded in 1985 and opened to the public in 1992. It is the oldest museum in the country that is devoted to the art and artists of the American South. The museum¹s permanent collection of five thousand works of art, dating from the late-eighteenth century to the present, represents every aspect of the region¹s visual culture. The Morris is open to the public from Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m.­5:00 p.m., and on Sunday, noon­5:00 p.m. For more information about the Morris Museum of Art, visit www.themorris.org or call 706-724-7501.