Current Nominees for 2008
The following authors are nominated for the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame for the annual election in April. The Board of Judges shall vote on each individual nomination and the person receiving the highest total of votes, and runner-up, shall be elected to the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.
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| Edward Porter Alexander | Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson |
| Peter Wellington Alexander | Sue Monk Kidd |
| Raymond Andrews | James Kilgo |
| Mignon F. Ballard | Virginia Lanier |
| Toni Cade Bambara | Edward Larson |
| Coleman Barks | Edison Marshall |
| Furman Bisher | Bernice Brown McCullar |
| David Bottoms | James Alan McPherson |
| Olive Ann Burns | Oliver Quimby Melton, Jr. |
| Kathryn Stripling Byer | John Herndon (Johnny) Mercer |
| Virginia Spencer Carr | |
| Rosalynn Carter | Judson Mitcham |
| Brainard Cheney | William Robert Mitchell, Jr |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer | Frances Newman |
| June Cottingham | Kimberly S. Phillips |
| E. Merton Coulter | Eugenia Price |
| Ossie Davis | Ruby Lorraine Radford |
| Carmen Agra Deedy | Janisse Ray |
| William Diehl | Don Rhodes |
| Faye Gibbons | Albert Scardino |
| Lewis Grizzard | Michael Stipe |
| Corra Harris | Brenda Wilkinson |
| Julia Collier Harris | Augusta Jane Evans Wilson |
| Mac Hyman |