Last week we launched Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia by Gordon Lamb (see the slideshow of pics from the launch from yesterday’s Short Takes ). We’ve talked to so many Athenians since this project began with their own special stories about how this historic concert figured into their lives. Usually it was for the…
On today’s installment of Short Takes, we’ll fill you in on the best of what’s been going on at the Press: awards and review news; spotlight on new books; and a roundup of recent and upcoming events.
Spring has sprung and with it, a desire to sit outside in the warm weather and read. If you are looking for a book to read this spring, we’ve got you covered. We complied a list of books about gardens, trees, and eco-justice for you. For more information on books that we’re publishing this season,…
In honor of Earth Day the University of Georgia Press interviewed Paul S. Sutter and Paul M. Pressly, editors of the forthcoming Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast, due out this July. Paul S. Sutter is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the author of…
In honor of Earth day this Sunday, we’ve decided to spotlight three poems from Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology edited by Melissa Tuckey. Ghost Fishing is a gathering of poetry at the intersection of culture, social justice, and the environment. cutting greens Lucille Clifton curling them around i hold their bodies in obscene embrace thinking of…
In honor of Earth day this Sunday, we’ve decided to spotlight three poems from Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology edited by Melissa Tuckey. Ghost Fishing is a gathering of poetry at the intersection of culture, social justice, and the environment. Another Day Sara Goudarzi It is the birds I worry about when the streets become shadows…
In honor of Earth day this Sunday, we’ve decided to spotlight three poems from Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology edited by Melissa Tuckey. Ghost Fishing is a gathering of poetry at the intersection of culture, social justice, and the environment. How To Disappear The Stars Lauren Camp If you let them build a book of houses,…
Barbara McCaskill is a professor of English and codirector of the Civil Rights Digital Library at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory and provided the introduction for the UGA Press’s edition of Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft…
In honor of April being National Poetry Month, we’ve decided to post poems from our most recent anthologies. This week we are highlighting My American Night, poems by Christopher P. Collins and selected by David Bottoms. They are brutal yet reflective poems that come to grips with the horrors of war. My America Night is the…
In honor of April being National Poetry Month, we’ve decided to post poems from our most recent anthologies. This week we are highlighting Begin with a Failed Body, poems by Natalie J. Graham and selected by Kwame Dawes. They are poems that consider the body as a site for revelation. Begin with a Failed Body is…
Writers of short fiction, the window is open for submitting manuscripts for the 2018 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Manuscripts may be submitted between 9:00 a.m. on April 1 and 5:00 p.m. on May 31. The winner will be announced by late summer. Visit the series page for guidelines and information on the review process and a list of some of…
One of the perils of making a book, particularly on the production end, is ensuring the book’s accuracy. A book that has a defect no one noticed until it is out selling at the local bookstore is a nightmare for everyone, but the main gatekeepers in this regard are often the folks in production. And…
Were you there? Twenty years ago Widespread Panic held what became the largest record release party ever for their album Light Fuse, Get Away. Just in time for the anniversary this April, we’re releasing Gordon Lamb’s new book on this epic event, Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia. Join us for the book…
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, we’re spotlighting Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times Volume 1, edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood. Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times is a book of essays that follows the lives of important women in Georgia History from Georgia’s founding in 1733 up until World War I.…
Flannery O’Connor is known as being one of the great southern writers to come out of the twentieth century. Here at the Press, we honor her memory and amazing short-story-telling ability every year with the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. In honor of women’s history month, we decided to highlight five facts about Flannery…
