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…
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…
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…
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…
Catch up on your reading with the UGA Press Summer Sale and get 40% off all books during the month of June! Today we’re highlighting creative writing: short fiction, poetry, essays, and memoir. Take a look at some of our best creative writing titles below, and use code 08JUNE40 at checkout to get 40% off.…
In addition to our spotlight on Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction, we are also posting Dustin Parsons’s Decatur Book Festival discussion panel. Parsons’s Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams is a novel view of fathers and the gadgets that make up childhood. In the book “graphic” essays play with the conventions of telling a life story and…
Nonfiction isn’t always dry, dusty textbooks that feel like they take ten years to read. At the University of Georgia Press, our series Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction publishes works that are as accessible as they are informative. They take the form of personal and lyric essays, memoirs, cultural meditations, and literary journalism. Fire…
Congratulations to Steven Moore for winning this year’s Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction with his work The Longer We Were There: A Memoir. Steven Moore was born and raised in southeast Iowa and served seven years in the Iowa National Guard. He received his BA from the University of Iowa…
Wang Ping has written many books and poems, but her latest book is one that’s been in the works since she could write. Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi (out this month) is the story of her life, about the things that happened in China and America to the people she grew up with, met,…
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