UGA Press Acquires NewSouth Books
The University of Georgia Press, a respected publisher of global scholarship, creative and literary works, and general interest books on the American South, announced today its acquisition of NewSouth Books.
Leah Nieboer Wins the Georgia Poetry Prize
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Leah Nieboer as the winner of the2021 Georgia Poetry Prize. In partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology and theUniversity of Georgia, the University of Georgia Press established the Georgia Poetry Prize in2015 as a national competition that celebrates excellence in poetry. This year’s runner-up isMatthew Minicucci’s…
UGA Press Titles to Celebrate Black History Month
To honor Black History Month, we are highlighting recent titles that feature Black authors, history, sociology, politics, culinary arts, music, and more. Lists like these will inevitably leave out many of the important and worthy books we’ve published through the years, which is why the spotlight here is on recent titles. We are extremely proud…
UGA Press Mourns the Loss of Editor Valerie Boyd
The University of Georgia Press mourns the loss of celebrated editor Valerie Boyd. In September 2021, the Press appointed Boyd as one of two Editors-at-Large. She also served as one of the Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction series editors. In February 2021, Boyd moderated the Press’s “Then and Now: A Conversation with Charlayne…
UGA Press Staff Pick the Top Ten Books of the Last Decade
We’ve published a LOT of books over the past decade, so picking THE top ten books we’ve published over that span of time is an impossible task. Ask us tomorrow and we’ll give you a different list. Still, this a good a snapshot of the best of what we do, and we’re happy to have…
Q&A with Steve Majors, author of new release High Yella: A Modern Family Memoir
High Yella: A Modern Family Memoir recounts the story of Steve Majors’ life. The following is a Q&A with Majors himself in which he expands on how the struggles detailed in his book helped him move forward in the conceptualization of his own identity and offers opinions on what the future could look like for…
Q&A: Donald Edward Davis Discusses the American Chestnut in Past, Present, and Future
The American Chestnut tells the story of the titular tree from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Some of the tree’s history dates to the very founding of our country, making the story of the American chestnut an integral part of American cultural and environmental history. The following is a Q&A…
Q&A: Caroline Crew Discusses MMA, True Crime’s Purpose, and Fire as a Metaphor
Other Girls to Burn is a collection of essays that explores the relationship between women and violence within such contexts as the 2014 Isla Vista shooting, early Christian virgin martyrs (discussed in relation with modern true crime stories), mixed martial arts, and rape culture. The following is a Q&A with the author, Caroline Crew, about the…
Toni Ann Johnson Wins the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
Toni Ann Johnson has been named this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her short story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2022. Established in 1983, the Flannery O’Connor Award seeks to encourage talented writers of short stories…
UGA Press Announces AWP Creative Nonfiction and National Poetry Series Award Winners
We’re pleased to announce the winners of several creative writing awards and look forward to publication of these works in the fall of 2022! Association of Writers & Writing Programs Congratulations to Anne-Marie Oomen for winning the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction with her work As Long as I Know You: The Mom…
UGA Press Welcomes Nicole Walker as New Nonfiction Series Editor
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Nicole Walker as the new series editor for Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction. Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021) Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical…
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