Creative Writing Program News

Blakely Announcement

2024-2025 Blakely Poetry Competition Winner: Sihle Ntuli

We are THRILLED to share that Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Vivek Narayanan has selected Sihle Ntuli's poem "Shade or The Revelation of All Our Neighbourhood Has Lost" as the winning poem for the 2024-2025 Diann Blakely Poetry Competition!

Cooper Sunderland

Congratulations to the winner of the 2024-2025 SPARK Fellowship: Cooper Sunderland!

We are thrilled to announce that Cooper Sunderland has been awarded a $4000 SPARK Fellowship for his independent summer study abroad project, Art – A Refuge Abroad. 
Vivek Narayanan

Announcing the 2024-2025 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet & National Poetry Competition

The Creative Writing Program of the University of Georgia is happy

Aruni Kashyap

Aruni Kashyap's next novel to be published by HarperVia in 2026!

Publishers Marketplace has reported that Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing Program Aruni Kashyap's How to Date a Fanatic will be published by HarperVia in 2026! This will be Kashyap's debut in the American market. 

Aruni Kashyap

Aruni Kashyap's Newest Collection of Short Stories: The Way You Want to Be Loved

Creative Writing Professor Aruni Kashyap's newest collection of short stories was published on October 1, 2024 by Gaudy Boy. The Way You Want to Be Loved is, "a book of ferocious inquiry and vast heart," according to Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning.