Creative Writing

Please join the Creative Writing Program and 2024-2025 SPARK Fellow Cooper Sunderland supported by Dr. Jan Uelzmann, Associate Professor of German, for a presentation of Sunderland's findings from his SPARK Fellowship, Art — A Refuge Abroad. Thursday, October 2nd at 5pm in Park Hall 265   Dr. Andrew Zawacki reviewed the entries and concluded that Cooper's proposal was, "both fascinating and feasible."  When asked to summarize his…

With support from the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts and the English Department, The Creative Writing Program is overjoyed to welcome Booker Prize Finalist Neel Mukherjee to Athens! The reading will be held in The Graduate Reading Room on the third floor of the Main Library on North Campus. Books will be available for purchase before and after the reading.  Neel Mukherjee is the author of A Life Apart (2010), which won the…

Please join us in welcoming five new students to the Creative Writing Program. This free event is open to the public and refreshments will be served.  View Photo Gallery   Gillian Flannery Grace Bennett Gillian Flannery Grace Bennett is a Boston-born, Florida-raised writer with a BA in Creative Writing from Florida State University, and an M.Phil in Film Studies & Screenwriting from Trinity College Dublin. As both a Southerner…

Join us for a night of readings to celebrate the graduating PhD students in UGA’s Creative Writing Program. Two readers will share original works. This event is free and open to the public. Chelsea L Cobb is a writer and educator with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. Her writing has won the Margaret Harvin Wilson Writing Award and was nominated as a finalist at the Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival. Her writings can be…

The UGA Creative Writing Department's Sentimental Touring Club returns with another annual graduate reading!  It makes us truly sentimental (we're clacking our heels, we're jumping with joy!) to invite you to The Globe this Friday, April 4th at 4 pm, to witness the fantastic work of our graduate students. Our readers—Asna, Daniel, Oshin, Nik, and Maxime—write across genres and styles; their work is audacious, thought-provoking, and…

The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program through its Graduate Students Reading Series along with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts presents a reading and book signing with Joy Priest.  Additionally, Mikhayla Smith the Poet Laureate of Athens will be in conversation with Joy and will share a few of her poems with us! This free event is open to the public. Books will be available for purchase, and light refreshments will be…

The Creative Writing Program and Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, Chigozie Obioma are pleased to welcome Kenzie Allen for a poetry reading on Friday, March 14th from 6-7pm at Ciné. Avid Bookshop will have Kenzie's debut poetry collection "Cloud Missives" available for purchase. View Photo Gallery   Available from Tin House Press Kenzie Allen is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist, and…

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…

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…

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…