Creative Writing Program News

Professor LeAnne Howe was interviewed by Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing, following the Native American Literature Symposium (NALS) in Mystic Lake, Minnesota.

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Professor Reginald McKnight has won a Pushcart Prize for his short story "Float," which first appeared in The Georgia Review's Spring 2016 issue.

Iowa newspaper The Daily Iowan featured a story about Dr. Ed Pavlić's reading at Prairie Lights Books & Cafe in Iowa City, Iowa..  Dr. Pavlić read from his 2015 book Who Can Afford to Improvise?

Dr. Ed Pavlić, University of Georgia Distinguished Research Professor of English and Creative Writing and author of Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener, discussed James Baldwin on Radio Open Source with:

Searching For Sequoyah is a documentary about the man who invented a written form of the Cherokee language.  The film begins with the familiar story of Cherokee syllabary, but also looks at the much lesser known stories of the Old