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​Your customers and patrons love romance!
Georgia Romance Writers is pleased to invite current and former librarians, booksellers, and other industry professionals to judge the prestigious 2025 Maggie Awards for Excellence in romance writing. We appreciate each and every volunteer judge who values our authors of romance.
Each judge will receive, on average, five (5) books - at no expense. All titles are submitted in PDF format and must be read electronically. You may request as many books as you can read within the scoring period. Entries will be sent to judges by April 9, 2025. Scores are due back by June 10, 2025.
Judges remain anonymous and scoring is done online. For each book, the judge will answer a few questions and give numerical score ranks. Judges have their choice of romance categories and heat levels of the books they will be given to score.
To participate, simply fill out the 2025 Maggie Award Judges Application Form linked below and hit submit at the bottom of the form. Your information will not be shared for any purpose.
Please feel free to share the Judge Applications with your colleagues by forwarding this information. One application per judge, please. Please address any questions to Maggiechair@gmail.com
Thank you,
Debbie Kaufman
2025 Maggie Chair
GRW Director of Awards