The latest in our episodes featuring events from the Decatur Book Festival, today we’re airing Michael Martone and Beth Ann Fennelly’s panel on the essay. Martone is the author of Brooding: Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet, a collection of twenty-five personal essays that speak from different platforms. Martone covers a range of topics…
Keep up to date with what’s going on at the UGA Press with Short Takes. Continue reading for information about our upcoming events, our latest releases, and news and reviews. Food, Culture and Place: A Public Discussion of Foodways: Friday, October 5 at 10:30 a.m., Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library Auditorium, 300 S. Hull…
Kirsten Lunstrum, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, sits down with us today to explore themes, style, and inspiration for her newest book What We Do with the Wreckage (available October 15, 2018). Kirsten’s characters reveal survivors’ instincts when placed in situations of intimate crisis. Their choices echo throughout each story as snapshots into…
In addition to International Talk Like a Pirate Day, we are also celebrating Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week with a new podcast! Earlier this month at the Decatur Book Festival, Robert Cohen, author of Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism, sat down with Susan Youngblood Ashmore, author of Carry It…
Colette Sartor has been named this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, a competition that seeks to encourage writers of excellent short stories, while bringing award-winning works to a wider audience. Her collection, Once Removed and Other Stories, will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2019. Sartor…
Ahoy, readers! Today be the day of Talkin’ like a Pirate. Since 2002, pirate enthusiasts across all the seven seas and four oceans have donned their bandanas, eyepatches, and peg legs to celebrate their favorite swashbuckling scallywags. If ye be worried about lookin’ like a landlubber, a pirate lingo glossary will be (almost) as valuable…
Wang Ping has written many books and poems, but her latest book is one that’s been in the works since she could write. Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi (out this month) is the story of her life, about the things that happened in China and America to the people she grew up with, met,…
The UGA Press sat down with some of the contributors of Our Prince of Scribes to learn more about their relationship with Pat. This month, we’re talking with food writers.
Keep up to date with what’s going on at the UGA Press with Short Takes. Continue reading for information about the Press at the Decatur Book Festival, September events, August releases, and news and reviews.
The UGA Press sat down with some of the contributors of Our Prince of Scribes to learn more about their relationship with Pat. This month, we’re talking with Southern writers.
The UGA Press is looking for a detail-oriented student intern with a passion for books and publishing to work in our acquisitions editorial department for fall 2018 as our Wormsloe Foundation Acquisitions Intern. This is a paid position with a $3,000 stipend for the semester. It’s a great opportunity for anyone interested in becoming an…
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture is a collection of papers presented at the 2016 Ossabaw Foundation symposium, outlining the environmental history of this island as well as others along the Georgia coast.
For those of you who love Southern meals and want to know more about the farmers behind the food or the dishes themselves, here are four must-read books from the UGA Press to look out for this fall.
Keep up to date with the best of what’s been going on and what’s coming up at the Press with Short Takes. Continue reading for hot titles coming out this summer, upcoming events, authors in the news and more.
The UGA Press sat down with some of the contributors of Our Prince of Scribes to learn more about their relationship with Pat. This month, we’re talking with booksellers.
