UGA Press Holiday Web Sale
Get 50% off all UGA Press titles on our website now through December 23.
Get 50% off all UGA Press titles on our website now through December 23.
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…
Writers of short fiction, the window is closing to submit manuscripts for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. The submission deadline is May 31. The winner will be announced by late summer. Acclaimed writer, editor, professor and commentator Roxane Gay is the current judge. Gay’s writing appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Mystery…
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act. To mark this important milestone we have put out a new edition of Reid Harris’s And the Coastlands Wait: How the Grassroots Battle to Save Georgia’s Marshlands Was Fought—and Won. Below is President Carter’s foreword outlining just why the law was so important. Additionally,…
Dear Friends, Like the rest of the University of Georgia and most of the world, the University of Georgia Press is radically rethinking every aspect of our workflows and short- and long-term plans. While we remain committed to publishing books and supporting our authors, we are also acutely aware that our usual means of interaction…
Due to the ongoing concerns over the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the University of Georgia Press has decided to curtail its presence at conferences and academic meetings this spring out of an abundance of caution. This means we will no longer be exhibiting at or attending the following meetings: Appalachian Studies, Lexington, KY, March 12-15 National…
The University of Georgia Press has created an endowment to fund a publishing apprenticeship program for students from UGA’s graduate history program. The Peggy Heard Galis History Ph.D. Apprenticeship will allow history Ph.D. candidates to gain insight into and experience in the scholarly publishing process. The endowment was created from a giving campaign funded by…
The University of Georgia Press has received a three-year $207,554 Humanities Open Book grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the Georgia Open History Library (GOHL). The GOHL will publish open digital editions of 50 out-of-print volumes to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States in 2026. The titles…
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Chelsea Dingman as winner of the 2018 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…
Our website and email will be down for most of the day this Saturday, March 9. No worries: this is part of a planned outage for some scheduled maintenance. We will be live again on Sunday!