Creative Writing Program News

Diann Blakely Emerging Poet Prize

The 2025-2026 Diann Blakely Emerging Poet Prize is Open for Submissions

The Creative Writing Program and the English Department are excited to announce that the competition for the Diann Blakely Emerging Poet Prize has opened for submissions!

O-Jeremiah Agbaakin

Creative Writing Program Graduate Student O-Jeremiah Agbaakin Receives the 2025 John Lewis Writing Grant for Poetry

Andrew Zawacki

Dr. Andrew Zawacki publishes photo-poetry book

ENDSCAPE blends thirty photographs with twenty poems in the inaugural P5 photo/poetry
Anindit Dutta

Creative Writing Graduate Student Anindit Dutta Selected for Tin House Autumn Workshop

Established in 2003 with its flagship summer conference, the Tin House Workshop is a premier creative writing program offering in-person and online classes, seminars, and residencies in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Karla Kelsey

Announcing the 2025-2026 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet

The Creative Writing Program of the University of Georgia is happy to announce that the 2025-2026 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet is Karla Kelsey.