The University of Georgia Press was saddened to learn of the passing of author, poet, culinary anthropologist, NPR host and commentator, writer, and actress Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor on Saturday, September 3 at the age of 79. Below, assistant director for editorial, design, and production, Jon Davies remembers Grosvenor. By Jon Davies One of the strange parts…
Becky Mandelbaum has been named this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and her collection of short stories will be published by the University of Georgia Press. Mandelbaum’s Bad Kansas will be available from the UGA Press in fall 2017. The competition seeks to encourage writers of excellent short stories,…
We’re having a sale to celebrate the return of our missing van, which was loaded with books we had hoped to sell at last weekend’s Decatur Book Festival. If you need to get caught up on this story, go here. If you have been following the events surrounding our van, then you also know that…
Around 9:00 am on Saturday, Sept. 3, the University of Georgia Press began releasing notices on its social media that its van, packed with books and supplies for a display at the 2016 Decatur Book Festival (DBF), had been stolen. The missing van has been located. Through circumstances that the Press (with invaluable assistance from…
UGA Press Friends: Our van, with all of our Decatur Book Festival books and materials, was stolen sometime last evening. Hope you are still coming to DBF, but don’t plan on dropping by to see us. Will keep you posted, should our van be recovered. Quick update: all of our authors will still be on…
As usual, the Press will be at the largest independent book festival in the country this coming Labor Day weekend. The AJC Decatur Book Festival presented by DeKalb Medical will be Friday, September 2 through Sunday, September 4 in downtown Decatur, GA. The festival will be full of events, panels, discussions, signings, cooking demonstrations, music,…
Earlier this year we published Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service by Ren and Helen Davis. In the video below, Ren and Helen talk about Grant, whose photographs first popularized the many iconic landscapes to which millions of visitors now flock to see every year. Landscapes…
By Aaron F. Brantly Last month, on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, emails taken from the Democratic National Committee during a June cyber attack were leaked online. While investigations are ongoing, initial reports suggest that the hackers who attacked the DNC were of Russian origin and that they released this information in a…
Starting today: catch a Pokémon Go character on campus and win a book from UGA Press! We heart pop culture here at UGA Press—even as we make great books on timeless topics. Recent office chatter about the Pokémon Go phenomenon prompted a few “Hey, what if . . .” moments, which in turn led us…
The welcome and information folder for the 2016 American Association of University Presses Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, at the Loews Philadelphia. As I sat in the Atlanta airport watching the minutes tick by, my anxiety inched higher and higher. I was due to land in Philadelphia for the 2016 Association of American University Presses…
Earlier this year, the University of Georgia Press announced that we would be moving our distribution and fulfillment over to Longleaf Services, Inc., a non-profit company providing fulfillment services to university presses since 2006. As of July 1, customers can now order UGA Press titles from Longleaf Services. Current university presses using Longleaf Services includes…
The University of Georgia Press recently announced that we would be transitioning over to Longleaf Services, Inc. for distribution and fulfillment. As part of that process, our online shopping cart is currently down, and we are unable to take web and phone orders at this time. Please order our books from your favorite local or…
