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The Diann Blakely Endowment to the Creative Writing Program is hosting three poets this year beginning with Elizabeth Willis on Thursday, February 8th at 6pm at The Atheneum. 
In this unique book, Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia look at the present of India through the lived experiences of political prisoners. Combining political and legal analysis with firsthand testimonies, the book explores the small gestures that constitute resistance inside and outside jail for the prisoners and their families, telling a story of destruction of institutions and erosion of rights. https://www.english.uga.edu/events/content/…
https://thegeorgiareview.com/event/the-georgia-review-presents-jennine-capo-cru… The Georgia Review, Avid Bookshop, and the Athens-Clarke County Library invite the public to a free author event and book signing with Jennine Capó Crucet and Brian Truong. Join attendees to hear passionate, funny, and thought-provoking work that highlights the difficulties and blessings of living in immigrant communities.
Enjoy a book signing with artists Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens. Their book Assuming the Ecosexual Position is the story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth. In 2008, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens married the Earth, which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality. Assuming the Ecosexual Position describes how the two…
The University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Creative Writing Program and the Institute of Native American Studies welcome Dakota author Mona Susan Power to Athens for a reading and conversation.  Power will read from her new novel, "A Council of Dolls" (2023) at Cine, 234 W Hancock Ave, Athens, GA 3060, on September 21, at 5 p.m. Books signing to follow. The event is free and open to the…
This event will bring together writers Seán Hewitt, Louise Kennedy, and Martin Doyle for a group reading and conversation with Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities and director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The event is presented by the annual Betty Jean Craige Lectureship in the department of comparative literature and intercultural studies, and by the Willson Center as part of its Global Georgia series of…
The English Department is thrilled to welcome Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi for a night of reading and audience interaction. 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 Prize 2018, awarded annually by Yale University. She won the Global…
The Creative Writing Program is pleased to present a reading by the inaugural Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Allison Cobb.  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 All Died; and Born2. Cobb’s work has appeared in Best American…
In 2020, Marylyn Tan’s debut volume shocked Singapore’s literary world by winning the country’s premier English-language poetry prize, making its then 27-year-old author the first woman to ever win the award. Moreover, it is not a polite book. It is an instruction book, a grimoire, a call to insurrection to wrest power back from the social structures that serve to restrict, control, and distribute it among those few privileged above the…
Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan writer and arts manager. Her short story collection, Tropical Fish, won a Grace Paley Prize and a Commonwealth Prize, and she has been shortlisted for the Caine Prize three times. Her other awards include fellowships to the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, La Porte Peinte residency, the Hambidge Center, a Tebere Arts Playwright residency, a Miles Morland Scholarship and a Sustainable…
For this in-person event, Jasmine Amussen, the editor of Atlanta's digital art magazine Burnaway, will read from a selection of recent Athens focused stories. In addition, Amussen will give a short presentation on how to pitch to the magazine — what kind of work catches the editor's attention, what doesn’t, along with additional information about programs, workshops, internships, Mood Rings and other ways to get involved with the magazine.…
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.  This event is free and open to the public. Morgan’s latest novel, Lost Creek, is forthcoming from White Dog Press, an imprint of Chickasaw Press.  He has also published the novel Anompolichi: The Wordmaster with White Dog.  His other…
Birmingham-based poet Elizabeth Hughey will read from her new poetry collection, White Bull. Composed entirely of words taken from the letters and public statements of the segregationist Bull Connor, the poems in White Bull use language that was wielded in violence and oppression to reckon with the present moment. Hughey is the co-founder and programming director of the Desert Island Supply Co. (DISCO), a literary arts…
The summer poetry series "Seat in the Shade" kicks off in poetry month with a slate of local writers that include Athens first named poet laureate. The first Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (ACAC) Poet Laureate will be announced on April 27, 2021, at the live, webinar reading. The selected poet laureate must be an Athens Clarke County resident who will serve for a two-year term.  This event is part of the "Something More Pleasant"…
Professor Nicholas Allen, who holds an endowed chair in humanities in the Department of English, will host a reading of Irish literature in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. The event is presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, of which Allen is director. Advance registration for this virtual event is available here. All are welcome to attend. Allen's latest book, Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled…
Poets Joy Harjo and LeAnne Howe will have a discussion and read from their work in this event presented by the Institute of Native American Studies and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the department of English and the Creative Writing Program. The event is part of UGA's Signature Lectures series, as well as the Willson Center's 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public event series. Harjo is the 23rd Poet Laureate of…
Franklin Visiting Scholar Holly Pinheiro presents a talk about his forthcoming book on post-Civil War African American family life in Philadelphia. Pinheiro is an assistant professor of history at Augusta University. Pinheiro’s research focuses on the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in the military from 1850 through the 1910s. Counter to the national narrative which championed the patriotic manhood of soldiering from the Civil War…
Celebrate the release of Dr. Cassia Roth's forthcoming book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford U Press, January 2020). A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After the abolition of slavery in 1888 and the onset of republicanism in 1889, women's reproductive…
The Creative Writing Program is pleased to present a book launch for English Department/creative writing faculty members Aruni Kashyap and Andrew Zawacki. This reading is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Avid Bookshop. Kashyap’s His Father’s Disease was published in 2019 by Context (an imprint of Westland Books, 2019).  Zawacki’s Unsun was published in 2019 by Coach House Books. 
Black History Month is February, and the Department of History is kicking things off with a reading club, featuring Professor Thavolia Glymph's The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation. Glymph is a distinguished historian of African American history at Duke University. The department has 20 copies of Glymph's book to give away to students who are interested in participating. There will be free pizza, and…
Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English Jed Rasula presents a reading by poet Julie Carr. Carr is the author of seven books of poetry and two works of prose, with forthcoming works in both genres. She has also published work in several literary magazines. Honors and awards include The Sawtooth Poetry Award, A National Poetry Series selection, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2010-2011).
Join the celebration of 20 years of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Philip Lee Williams, a member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, will be honored on his 70th birthday with a reading from his new novel on its publication date, an autographing, and a party at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. The event is free and open to the public, and registration is requested. A reception will follow. The new novel…
Join us in celebrating the release of Michael Winship's latest book, Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America. (Yale U Press.) On fire for God—a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America-- Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England’s church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that…
July 30  marks the final event in the poetry series featuring Melisa Cahnmann & Teacher Poets in her class, including Sydney Clifton, Ming Sun, Traci Snipes, Susan Lane, Bekah List, Mathew Robinson, Meredith White, and Ashley Brown-Lemley.  This event marks the close of the 7th Seat in the Shade Poetry Series, an event sponsored in part by the Georgia Writers Association, the UGA College of Education, and many other poetry…
July 23 is the second of three sessions in the 2019 Seat in the Shade Poetry Series and features Georgia poets Sarah M.C. Baugh, Theresa Davis and Collin Kelley. Kelley's visit is supported by a grant from the Georgia Writers Association.   Baugh is a writer and portrait photographer born and raised in central New York. Her work can be found in Gulf Coast and Sand Hills, and she was a nominee for Best New Poets 2017.…

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