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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Open Digital History Resource Covers State’s Founding from Colony to Early Statehood The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce the launch of the Georgia Open History Library on Oct. 15, 2021. The Georgia Open History Library (GOHL) is an open-access library of nearly fifty digital editions of single-authored scholarly titles and two multivolume…
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Valerie Boyd and Cynthia R. Greenlee as Editors-at-Large. Boyd and Greenlee will represent the Press in seeking book projects in a wide range of subjects, including foodways, gender, history, journalism, labor, politics, race, justice and the South, broadly interpreted. Valerie Boyd is professor…
Prophet of Discontent is a new look at King’s economic and political theories amid expanding awareness of the Black radical tradition. The following is a Q&A with the authors, Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins, about past and present develops in the world of Black radical discourse and how they pertain to King. 1)…
As the situation in Afghanistan continues to devolve, evacuating U.S. citizens and the Afghans who aided our efforts over the last twenty years continues to be an urgent issue. Steven Moore wrote about one such man who worked with his unit in The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier. Like many…
We’re celebrating Women’s History Month with a list of recent UGA Press publications that include memoirs, biographies, and deep dives into subjects ranging from literature to medicine, all with a focus on the lives and histories of women. For more information, click the link in the caption.
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Jasmine Elizabeth Smith as winner of the 2020 Georgia Poetry Prize. In partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia, the University of Georgia Press established the Georgia Poetry Prize in 2015 as a national competition that celebrates excellence in poetry. The…
I’m not sure how it happened, but I somehow finagled an invitation to a regular lunch in Athens with Dick Hudson (former professor, Executive Director of Athens Symphony, tennis ace, incurable raconteur and bringer-together-of-people). Dick invited a revolving door of what I described as the “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” (my attendance notwithstanding)—doctors (both medical and…
Congratulations to Caroline Crew for winning this year’s Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction with her work Other Girls to Burn. Caroline Crew is the author of a collection of poetry titled Pink Museum as well as several chapbooks. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, and many other…
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