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The Poet Translator: "At last the language becomes really foreign"
Supported by the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts In celebration of UGA's Spotlight on the Arts, the English Department and the Creative Writing Program are pleased to present an afternoon of discussions and readings by three visiting poets, who are also deeply engaged in the practice of literary translation. View Photo Gallery SCHEDULE 1PM Panel Discussion at Park Hall Library, Room 261Dr. Andrew Zawacki will moderate a panel that…

Book Launch Party: English & Creative Writing Professor Chigozie Obioma's The Road to the Country
View Photo Gallery Please join the English Department and the Creative Writing Program for a reading and reception at Ciné for Chigozie Obioma's newest book The Road to the Country.  Books will be for sale by Avid Bookshop. For accessibility requests, contact events@avidbookshop.com. Please submit your request at least two weeks before the event. ABOUT THE BOOK: "A sweeping, heartracing, mystical novel about a university student in…

Creative Writing Program New Student Reading
The Creative Writing Program is delighted to present our first event of the 2024-2025 academic year, The New Student Reading!  We will celebrate the work of ten PhD students! This event is free and open for the public. Refreshments will be served. View Photo Gallery About the Readers:   Rahad Abir is the author of the novel Bengal Hound. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Witness, The Los Angeles Review…

Sentimental Touring Club: Graduate Reading Series
Join us for a night of readings to celebrate the graduating PhD students in UGA’s Creative Writing Program. Four readers will share original works of poetry and prose. This event is free and open to the public. ZACK ANDERSON holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. His book reviews and critical writings can be found in Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, and the Action Books Blog. His poems have recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, New Delta…

The Sentimental Touring Club: Creative Writing Program Graduate Student Reading
The Sentimental Touring Club is an annual reading series by graduate students in the Creative Writing Program. We are truly a sentimental bunch but be warned we are not miserable not miserly with our gifts! On Friday, March 29th at 6pm in the Graduate Reading Room, some of us will make you cry; some will make you laugh, but we: Abhijit, Ellen, Erik, O-Jeremiah, and Maxime shall also make you think and feel by reading from some of our work. Our…

A Flaw in the Design: Writing the Literary Thriller with Nathan Oates
The Creative Writing Program welcomes Nathan Oates for a night of reading and conversation. ABOUT A FLAW IN THE DESIGN A professor’s life is turned upside down when he takes in his charming, wildly dangerous nephew, whose wealthy parents have just died under mysterious circumstances, in this propulsive, edge-of-your-seat debut psychological thriller.“An absolute page-turner . . . I read it in a single sitting.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, bestselling…

Diann Blakely Visiting Poet: Ana Božičević
The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program presents a reading and book signing with Ana Božičević, the program’s 2024 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet. This free event is open to the public. Books will be available for purchase. Ana Božičević is a poet and writer. She grew up in Zadar, Croatia before coming to the States.Her new book is New Life (Wave Books, 2023). She is also the author of Povratak lišća /Return of the Leaves, Selected Poems…

Diann Blakely Visiting Poet: Aditi Machado
The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program presents a reading and book signing with Aditi Machado, the program’s 2024 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet. This free event is open to the public. Books will be available for purchase, and light refreshments will be served.  Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her second book of poems Emporium (Nightboat, 2020) received the James Laughlin Award. Her other works include the poetry…

Diann Blakely Visiting Poet: Elizabeth Willis
The Creative Writing Program welcomes Elizabeth Willis, the first visiting poet in the 2024 Blakely Program, with gratitude to the Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Fund. Currently serving as Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book is Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), which was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her other books of poetry include…

Visiting Author: Suchitra Vijayan | How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners
View on YouTube Suchitra Vijayan is a writer, essayist, lawyer, and photographer working across oral history, state violence, and visual storytelling. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India (Melville House, New York). It included 40 original photographs and was "a genre-bending book of nonfiction—made of stories, encounters, vignettes, and photographs—about home, belonging,…
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