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Creative Writing Program Faculty Meeting
Mon, 03/13/2023 - 11:15am

Visiting Author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Tue, 02/07/2023 - 10:20am
The English Department is thrilled to welcome Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi for a night of reading and audience interaction at the University of Georgia. The event will begin at 5pm and be hosted in the Miller Learning Center, Room 0248. This event is free and open to the public.  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is the author of Kintu, Let's Tell This Story Properly, and The Girl is a Body of Water. She is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature…

Creative Writing Program Town Hall Meeting
Tue, 02/07/2023 - 9:08am

Leah Nieboer Book Launch and Poetry Reading- SOFT APOCALYPSE
Tue, 01/24/2023 - 1:23pm
The Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia and the UGA Press are proud to host Leah Nieboer to launch her new book Soft Apocalypse. Along with the Creative Writing Program and the UGA Press, Avid Bookshop will also be on site to sell copies of Soft Apocalypse. The author will read from her book at the event, hosted at Ciné on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, from 7:00pm to 8:30pm. This event is free and open to the public. Masks are…

Three English Department Arts Lab fellows take part in webinar
Fri, 11/04/2022 - 10:28am
Recipients of UGA Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships and Graduate Assistantships will take part in a public conversation with Jean Martin-Williams, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and Associate Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.  Of the six participants, three are English Department members: Faculty Fellow Aruni Kashyap and Graduante Assistants Sayantika Mandal and Abhijit Sarmah. This…

English Dept. Ph.D. students take part in ONE NIGHT ONLY
Tue, 10/25/2022 - 2:08pm
Come one, come all. Don your paper caps and join us in the parking lot behind the Athenaeum for ONE NIGHT ONLY, an old-time revival of objects, words, sounds, and movements that can’t be contained beneath a roof. The church doors have been torn asunder, the museum decorations dragged into the streets. Only the carnivalesque remains. This “syncretic pageantry of a ritualistic sort” aims to conjoin “the sacred with the profane,” boasting temporary…

Ph.D. Student Abhijit Sarmah to be a featured poets during the Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series
Thu, 08/18/2022 - 4:17pm
The University of Georgia Ph.D. student Abhijit Sarmah will be one of the featured poets during the Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series sponsored by the Emily Dickinson Museum.  This virtual event will take place on Thursday, August 26th at 6 p.m.  Registration information here. Sarmah is a poet and researcher of global indigenous writing, with particular focus on Native American women writers and literatures from Northeast India. His work is…

New Student Reading 2022!
Tue, 08/16/2022 - 12:11pm
The Creative Writing Program was pleased to present our first in-person new student reading and welcome reception since 2019!  We celebrated the work of six Ph.D. students: Nneoma Ike-Njuko and Sayantika Mandal, who matriculated in 2020; Maxime Bercalz, who matriculated in 2021; and our newest Ph.D. students, Ellen Boyette, D. T. Lumpkin, and Abhijit Sarmah.  This free event will take place on Thursday, September 1st at Athica, 675 Pulaski St…

Writer Phillip Carroll Morgan to Read at the University of Georgia
Thu, 08/11/2022 - 2:20pm
Eidson Chair of American Literature LeAnne Howe, with the Creative Writing Program, is pleased to present writer Phillip Carroll Morgan (Choctaw/Chickasaw) for a reading on Thursday, October 13th at 7 p.m.  The location of the event is the Zell B. Miller Learning Center Room 0248, 48 Baxter St, Athens, GA 30602.  This event is free and open to the public. Morgan will read from his new novel, The Lost River (Chickasaw Nation Press, 2022).  What…

2023 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet
Fri, 06/17/2022 - 9:43am
The Creative Writing Program is pleased present a reading by the inaugural Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Allison Cobb on Thursday, January 26th at 7 p.m.  The event will take place at Ciné, 234 W Hancock Ave, Athens, GA 30601.  The winner of the inaugural Diann Blakely National Poetry Competition will also be announced at the event. Cobb is the author of four books: Plastic: an Autobiography (winner of the Oregon Book Award); Green-Wood; After We…
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