Creative Writing Program News

Holly Haworth

Holly Haworth's first collection of poetry published and nominated for a Weatherford Award

Abhijit Sarmah

Creative Writing doctoral student Abhijit Sarmah named for the second consecutive year as finalist for major poetry fellowship

For the second year in a row, UGA doctoral student Abhijit Sarmah is among 12 finalists for the 

Presidential Graduate Fellow Award

Incoming English PhD student wins Presidential Fellowship

Priyadarshini Oshin Gogoi, an incoming Creative Writing Ph.D. student, is the winner of the University of Georgia's Presidential Fellowship Award.

Rahad Abir

Creative Writing Student Rahad Abir named Georgia Author of the Year!

Congratulations to Rahad Abir, an incoming PhD student in the Creative Writing Program on being named the Georgia Author of the Year, in the Literary Fiction and Short Story Collection category for his book Bengal Hound. 

Aruni Kashyap

Aruni Kashyap selected as a 2024-2025 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration.

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