Creative Writing

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 Lagos who must save…

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. About the Readers:   Rahad Abir is the author of the novel Bengal Hound. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Witness, Th\e Los Angeles Review, Himal Southasian,…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

The creative writing faculty will be meeting to discuss program matters.