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…
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…
The Press has cancelled its plans to attend AWP 2020 in San Antonio because of concerns about the potential spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. We are sorry that we will miss seeing all of our friends in the Association of Writers and Writing Programs! The good news: we’re still offering our 30% conference discount with free shipping…
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…
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Rosa Lane as winner of the 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize. In partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, 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…
The University of Georgia Press is now accepting applications for the 2018–2019 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship Program. The University Press Diversity Fellowship Program seeks to increase diversity in scholarly publishing by providing year-long fellowships in the acquisitions departments of four university presses – the University of Washington Press, Duke University Press, MIT Press, and the University…
As everybody on social media knows by now, today is National Bikini Day. The bikini made its debut in 1946 and hasn’t left the pool or beach in nearly sixty years. For this, we are indebted to the French designer Louis Reard. His then considered scandalous bikini style embodied the freedom recently won in World…
June 1, 2017—For the third consecutive year, the Georgia Center for the Book will participate in the Route One Reads initiative, a program under the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. In 2017, the theme of the initiative will be memoirs and biographies, and the selected book to represent Georgia is Blood,…
This week is pub week for Practical Strangers: The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln edited by Stephen Berry and Angela Esco Elder. With the blog series we tried to recreate the delayed nature of correspondence during the Civil War, with a modern twist. To conclude the series, we…
Nathaniel reflects on the two months since he departed from Elodie and writes of his hopes for their speedy reunion. The trials of war become more evident through Nathaniel’s mention of soldiers’ differing opinions of their commanders and the possibility of marching on Washington to meet General Beauregard.
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