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Book Launch for Andrew Zawacki: THESE LATE ECLIPSES
Please join the English Department and the Creative Writing Program as we celebrate Andrew Zawacki's latest collection, These Late Eclipses. Composed during lockdown from March to September 2020, These Late Eclipses is a bracing yet lyrical record of the dystopia that descended with COVID-19. The reading will also feature two of Zawacki's students, Danielle Kotrla and Samuel Horgan. Afterwards, we welcome guests to stay for a reception. …

Willson Center Distinguished Artist Lecture Nora Wendl: "Almost Nothing"
Co-sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Creative Writing Program, the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, and the Mod Squad In this talk, Wendl reveals the twenty-year process she undertook to write her “architectural history as memoir,” Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth (University of Illinois Press, 2025). Almost Nothing takes up the history of Dr. Edith Farnsworth, eminent physician…

Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop: William Wylie
“To Throw a Shadow”  This workshop will focus on the physical and temporal aspects of landscapes. Wylie is motivated by an interest in particular places, and his projects dig beneath the surface to investigate our consumption of space and our movement through it. He will discuss several individuals who have integrated perambulating into their work, as well as his own ideas on why photography and walking go together so well.  William…

SPARK Fellowship Presentation: Cooper Sunderland
Please join the Creative Writing Program and 2024-2025 SPARK Fellow Cooper Sunderland supported by Dr. Jan Uelzmann, Associate Professor of German, for a presentation of Sunderland's findings from his SPARK Fellowship, Art — A Refuge Abroad. Thursday, October 2nd at 5pm in Park Hall 265   Dr. Andrew Zawacki reviewed the entries and concluded that Cooper's proposal was, "both fascinating and feasible."  When asked to summarize his…

Creative Writing Program Welcomes Booker Prize Finalist Neel Mukherjee THURS 10/23
With support from the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts and the English Department, The Creative Writing Program is overjoyed to welcome Booker Prize Finalist Neel Mukherjee to Athens! The reading will be held in The Graduate Reading Room on the third floor of the Main Library on North Campus. Books will be available for purchase before and after the reading.  Neel Mukherjee is the author of A Life Apart (2010), which won the…

Creative Writing Program New Student Reading
Please join us in welcoming five new students to the Creative Writing Program. This free event is open to the public and refreshments will be served.  View Photo Gallery   Gillian Flannery Grace Bennett Gillian Flannery Grace Bennett is a Boston-born, Florida-raised writer with a BA in Creative Writing from Florida State University, and an M.Phil in Film Studies & Screenwriting from Trinity College Dublin. As both a Southerner…

Sentimental Touring Club: Graduating Students Reading
Join us for a night of readings to celebrate the graduating PhD students in UGA’s Creative Writing Program. Two readers will share original works. This event is free and open to the public. Chelsea L Cobb is a writer and educator with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. Her writing has won the Margaret Harvin Wilson Writing Award and was nominated as a finalist at the Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival. Her writings can be…

Sentimental Touring Club
The UGA Creative Writing Department's Sentimental Touring Club returns with another annual graduate reading!  It makes us truly sentimental (we're clacking our heels, we're jumping with joy!) to invite you to The Globe this Friday, April 4th at 4 pm, to witness the fantastic work of our graduate students. Our readers—Asna, Daniel, Oshin, Nik, and Maxime—write across genres and styles; their work is audacious, thought-provoking, and…

Creative Writing Graduate Student Reading: Joy Priest featuring Mikhayla Smith, Poet Laureate of Athens
The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program through its Graduate Students Reading Series along with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts presents a reading and book signing with Joy Priest.  Additionally, Mikhayla Smith the Poet Laureate of Athens will be in conversation with Joy and will share a few of her poems with us! This free event is open to the public. Books will be available for purchase, and light refreshments will be…

Helen S. Lanier Poetry Reading with Kenzie Allen
The Creative Writing Program and Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, Chigozie Obioma are pleased to welcome Kenzie Allen for a poetry reading on Friday, March 14th from 6-7pm at Ciné. Avid Bookshop will have Kenzie's debut poetry collection "Cloud Missives" available for purchase. View Photo Gallery   Available from Tin House Press Kenzie Allen is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist, and…
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