With support from the English Department and The Willson Center, we are THRILLED to be welcoming Booker Prize Finalist, novelist Neel Mukherjee for a reading on campus on Thursday, October 23rd at 5:30 in the Graduate Reading Room on the third floor of the Main Library.

Abhijit Sarmah and O-Jeremiah Agbaakin had a chance this summer to interview the 2025 Diann Blakely Winning Poet, Sihle Ntuli, selected by the 2025 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Vivek Narayanan and is included in his third collection, OWELE: blakely.uga.edu

Anindit Dutta is a fiction writer from Guwahati working on a book-length project that explores the collective curiosity of rural river islands in Assam facing environmental and political consequences through a cohesive interface of folklore and realism. Thursday 8/28 at 6pm, upstairs at The Globe.

Gillian Bennett is a Boston-born, Florida-raised writer with a BA in Creative Writing from Florida State University, and an M.Phil in Film Studies & Screenwriting from Trinity College Dublin. See Gillian and the other new CWP writers on Thurs 8/28 at The Globe. www.english.uga.edu/events/conte...

Save the date! We are so excited to welcome five incredible writers to our program this year!

See you Friday for some poetry at Buvez!

The Narrative Edge podcast recently featured Aruni Kashyap's short story collection The Way You Want to Be Loved. This collection tackles identity, displacement, and resilience. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Pop over to Athentic tonight after work and spend some time with our PhD graduates, Chelsea Cobb and Genevieve Arlie!

Sound Studies will be at Buvez again this week!

Mark your calendars to hear from our graduating students, Chelsea Cobb and Genevieve Arlie!

Very cool capstone class project from the Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature (shared with us by Sarah Bell) Minute Details is a magazine/website: minutedetails.org Check it out!

Welcome to our new student videographer, Nikki Bailey! Nikki is a Junior Double Dawg studying Entertainment and Media Studies, Film Studies, and a masters in Emerging Media. She loves to be behind the camera and works on the Art and Music Project creating documentary episodes on local artists.

Graduate student O-Jeremiah Agbaakin sat down with Emma Auer to read his work and discuss his journey to poetry. www.wuga.org/local-news/2...

Defended! Congratulations to Dr. Chelsea L. Cobb!

Congratulations to CWP's Holly Haworth for being one of the English Department's five "Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award" winners!

The Willson Center, Dept of History, and INAS present a conversation on "Native Ground: Place and Language in the Cherokee Nation." Topics include mapping Cherokee homesteads in the 19th century, Removal Period archaeology, & Cherokee language and culture knowledge. 4/23 3pm MLC 250 buff.ly/lYcvsEK

It's time to say goodbye to Fletcher Johnson, our student videographer for the last two years as he is GRADUATING! We are so grateful for your time and talent, helping us create a highly professional video archive of UGACWP events!

Congratulations to Alec Siek on winning the 2025 Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize with his poem "bar joke." engl.franklin.uga.edu/news/stories...

Make some plans to see Seán Hewitt next week, Thursday April 16th, at Cine! calendar.uga.edu/event/sean-h...

This week, UGACWP Distinguished Research Professor Andrew Zawacki will be the Sandra Nelson Visiting Poet as part of the Writers Series program at St. Lawrence University this week, one of the best-regarded, oldest reading series in the nation.

Here's a weekend thing-to-do! On Sunday night, pop over to Buvez! for a Sound Studies Poetry Reading featuring English undergraduate student Ashley Beresch and UGA CWP Graduate Students Christina Wood and Sristi Ray.

We are planning to stop work early today so that we can get over to The Globe for the Spring 2025 Sentimental Touring Club, a reading with five of our graduate students who write across genres and styles. The reading will start at 4pm!

On March 21, 2025, the Creative Writing Program Graduates Students organized a reading for poet Joy Priest. This reading also featured the Poet Laureate of Athens, Mikhayla Smith. It was an incredible evening at Athica. Enjoy the video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Byx...

Two weeks ago, Kenzie Allen graced Athens with her poetry! If you missed it, the video is now on our YouTube Channel!

Priyadarshini Oshin Gogoi introduced renowned and beloved children’s author and former poet laureate of Massachusetts, Lesléa Newman at the 56th Georgia Conference on Children’s Literature. She also presented, “Creating Their Own Mirrors: Using Picture Books to Encourage Agency in Young Writers.”

UGA alumna Aggie Ebrahimi (MA English) presents her latest documentary film, "Como Vivimos (How We Live)", in UGA's Special Collections Library on April 3 at 7pm. This was a selection at the South by Southwest Festival and recently aired on PBS. buff.ly/rVLR418

See you tonight, Athens! 7pm @ ATHICA athica.org/event/joy-pr...

Genevieve Guzmán’s fall ENGL 4800W: Intermediate Fiction Writing class visited the Georgia Museum of Natural History's gallery for a tour then stayed on site to draft a prompt: a story with museum objects or an outdoor survival scenario set in the region. buff.ly/3L3HpkM (repost to include pics)

Turn on your radio this morning at 5:45 or 7:45 for Morning Edition to hear a shortened version of CWP Graduate Student Daniel Barnum's interview with Joy Priest!

Save the date for a showcase of the groundbreaking research on Georgia's Rock Hawk and Rock Eagle effigy mounds. This interdisciplinary team (including CWP's Abhijit Sarmah) used advanced non-invasive tech to reveal new details of these ancient Native American sites. Thurs 3/27 4:30 Park Hall 265

UGA Alum Alexandra Edwards, now teaching at TCU, will be giving a talk based on her recent book Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom (LSU Press) in Park Hall tomorrow, 3/19. Students, come meet Dr. Edwards at "Cake with an Alum" right before the talk itself.

UGACWP Student Daniel Barnum was able to sit down virtually with Joy Priest ahead of her poetry reading on Friday to chat about her work, and process and Horsepower and cars and basketball! Tune into WUGA on Saturday morning at 10am to hear their interview on Athens News Matters! buff.ly/XqckmkM

Wed, 3/26 4pm @ The UGA Chapel Author Charles Johnson will read from his work, then take part in a conversation with Hyangsoon Yi, professor of comparative literature and intercultural studies, and Caroline Medine, professor and director of the Institute for African American Studies.

We are so thrilled to share that Mikhayla Smith, the Poet Laureate of Athens, will be joining us on Friday night with Joy Priest. Come for the poetry, stay for the conversation & reception with these two poets!

Make sure you've got your calendar marked for a poetry reading with Joy Priest on Friday, March 21 2025, 7 - 9pm at ATHICA.

We are so excited about seeing Kenzie Allen tonight at Cine! Will we see you tonight?

Make some time on Monday, March 17, 2-3pm at MLC 350 for a joint event by Germanic & Slavic Studies and the English Department. Dr. Marco Abel will talk about his new book on the Munich Group, a group of 1960s Leftist filmmakers from Munich. More details: www.gsstudies.uga.edu/events/conte...

Genevieve Guzmán’s fall ENGL 4800W: Intermediate Fiction Writing class visited the Georgia Museum of Natural History's gallery for a tour then stayed on site to draft a prompt: a story with museum objects or an outdoor survival scenario set in the region. buff.ly/7hfE9a7

Artist Talk with Moshtari Hilal @ UGA: 3/19, 12:30pm, Fine Arts Building 400 (Gallery Theater)

This Friday night, we're going to be hanging out with Kenzie Allen at Cine for a poetry reading from her debut collection CLOUD MISSIVES and Dr. LeAnne Howe will engage Kenzie in conversation. Avid Bookshop will be on-site for book sales and it's likely going to be standing room only in The Lab!

Save the date for a reading and conversation with Ferdia Lennon Thursday, March 27 2025, 5:30 - 7:30pm Peabody Hall 115

We are so pumped to share that Claire Cronin will be judging the poetry submissions for the Virginia Rucker Walker Poetry Prize this year! The competition will be judged this year by Claire Cronin, a writer, musician, and alumna of UGACWP.

The Postcolonial Collective welcomes Brett Sterling, Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Arkansas for a lecture on March 20th in MLC.

Make sure you check out local poet J.R. Barner's celebration of his new book THE OCEAN UNDERGROUND AND OTHER POEMS at Athens Word of Mouth! Wednesday 3/5 upstairs at the Globe!

Undergraduate English majors are invited to enter the annual Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize! buff.ly/Z0cwQb2

Interested in getting familiar with Joy Priest's work before the reading? You can use this handy link to order your copy of HORSEPOWER from Avid Bookshop before 3/2. You'll be notified by Avid when it arrives and can pickup your order from the shop at your convenience. https://buff.ly/4jWyCA6

Kevin Young will be returning to Emory University as a distinguished guest for the annual Raymond Danowski Library Poetry Reading. This event is free to the public. Saturday, March 22, 2025 | 1 p.m. Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church https://buff.ly/4i34p0E

The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program through its Graduate Students Reading Series along with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts presents a reading and book signing with poet Joy Priest on Friday, March 21st at 7pm at ATHICA. https://buff.ly/41jQopD

Look around and you'll start to see @cerena Kenzie Allen's promotional posters going up around campus. We can't wait for her to visit us next month and read from her debut, CLOUD MISSIVES. See you at Cine on Friday, March 14th at 6pm!

Make some time on Thursday afternoon to pop over to Park Hall 265 for an incredibly important lecture with Joseph R. Slaughter, Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University: "Sentimental Adjustment Programs: Empathy as the Emotional Style of Neoliberalism."