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Professor LeAnne Howe cited as "one of Native America’s greatest writers and theorists"
Book on Professor LeAnne Howe Receives Rave Reviews from Top Journals  Conversations with LeAnne Howe, edited by Kirstin L. Squint for the University of Mississippi Press's Literary Conversations Series, has received strong reviews from important journals in the field of native american and Indigenous studies. The book has now been reviewed in two top journals in the field such as The American Indian Quarterly and Native American and Indigenous…
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New Publication in Provocations Series, edited by Roland Végső and Marco Abel
Who Would You Kill to Save the World? examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world—and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society. Claire Colebrook redefines “the world” as affluent Western society and “saving the world” as preventing us from becoming the othered them who are viewed in their suffering. Colebrook further examines how the use of postapocalyptic…

Nathan Dixon Wins Thirteenth Annual Short Fiction Prize
Nathan Dixon of the Creative Writing Program has been selected as the winner of the annual BOA Short Fiction Prize. Read more about this exciting news from BOA Editions, Ltd. below:   Rochester, New York—BOA Editions, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Nathan Dixon of Durham, North Carolina is the winner of the thirteenth annual BOA Short Fiction Prize for his collection Radical Red. BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners selected the…
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Christina Wood Receives Writer of Note Grant
UGA Creative Writing Program Ph.D. candidate Christina Wood has received a Writer of Note grant from the deGroot Foundation in support of her novel-in-progress, Escapes. Set in the mid-coastal town of Cambria, California, Escapes follows four female characters on the brink of enormous life change as symptoms of climate change begin to manifest in their town. The deGroot Foundation is a private family foundation created in 2010 to support high…
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Holly Haworth wins 2023 Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant
Creative Writing Program graduate student, Holly Haworth has won the prestigious 2023 Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant for her upcoming book. The Robert B. Silvers Foundation is a charitable trust established at the bequest of the late Robert B. Silvers, a founding editor of The New York Review of Books, with the aim of supporting writers in the fields of long-form literary and art criticism, the intellectual essay, political analysis, and…
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Abhijit Sarmah finalist for coveted national poetry fellowship
The Creative Writing Program is proud to share that graduate student Abhijit Sarmah has been named a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.    About the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships: The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. Perhaps the largest award offered to young poets in the US, the $27,000 prize is intended to…

2023 Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize Winners
The Creative Writing Program is eager to announce this year's Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize winners. This year, 1 winner and 2 runners up were selected out of 70 applicants by judge and alumna Dr. Ginger Ko. Please see the winners below along with Ginger's comments about their outstanding work:   1st Place: Alex Hoefer About the work: "[Alex Hoefer's poem] is a sly and steady poem, weaving together multilingualism, family, and memory in…
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Cody Marrs and the Omnipresence of Beauty
"Cody Marrs and Beauty as an Omnipresent Force" by Katie Cowart   Over the past few years, the entire world has faced some harsh realities. A pandemic seemingly without end. A war between Ukraine and Russia. An international social movement in Black Lives Matter. For many, these moments in time are only seen through the lens of the fear, unrest and change they ignite.  Cody Marrs takes a different approach. Head of the English department in the…

Professor Priyasha Mukhopadhyay to deliver Ballew Lecture at University of Georgia
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023- 4:30pm Park Hall 265   The Department of English is delighted to host Dr. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay who will deliver the talk “Reading for Company: Empire and its Forms of Writing, 1857- 1914,” her Ballew Lecture Series talk, that draws from her current book project in which she recovers the story of how ordinary forms of writing, from the bureaucratic document to the magazine, came to dominate the cultural…
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Susan Rosenbaum awarded 2022 MLA Prize for her work on the digital scholarly platform Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde
Dr. Susan Rosenbaum, along with Suzanne W. Churchill, professor of English at Davidson College and Linda A. Kinnahan, professor of English at Duquesne University was awarded the 2022 MLA Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship for their work on the digital scholarly platform Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde. According to a press release by the MLA: "Awarded each even-numbered year, the [MLA Prize for Collaborative,…
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