UGA Press Hires New Fiscal Affairs Manager and Acquisitions Editor
The University of Georgia Press welcomes two new staff members this summer: Sonja Eklund Hubbard, fiscal affairs manager, and Sarah Shermyen, acquisitions editor.
The University of Georgia Press welcomes two new staff members this summer: Sonja Eklund Hubbard, fiscal affairs manager, and Sarah Shermyen, acquisitions editor.
Invested in the circuitry and circuitous routes of migration and labor, Som’s lyricism weaves together the narratives of his transnational communities, bringing to light what is overshadowed in the reckless transit of global capitalism and imagining a world otherwise.
The National Book Critics Circle announced the selection of Ariana Benson’s debut poetry collection Black Pastoral as a finalist for the John Leonard Prize on Thursday, January 25, 2024.
The University of Georgia Press has appointed Nathaniel Holly as its new Editor-in-Chief. As Editor-in-Chief, Holly will lead the acquisitions department at the Press, effective January 22, 2024.
Earlier this week I found myself engaged in a pointless social media thread on the correct pronunciation of the late Rosalynn Carter’s first name, after which I realized that everyone commenting with great authority would only ever have called her “Mrs. Carter” if we’d had the chance. The world is grieving the death of this…
“Alive with hard-earned understanding and affirmation, these poems are for everyone who ever tried to leave a formative place of pain but found that person and place could never be fully untwined.”
“Japa & Other Stories by Iheoma Nwachukwu is everything that I hope to come upon as the series editor of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction: a voice that is at once fresh and fully formed, characters and premises that delight and surprise and edify.”
“Every page not only delights and instructs but also provokes and moves us, lingering like a remembered dream. . . . Waiting will quietly pull you in and knock you out.”
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Jessica Tanck as the winner of the 2022 Georgia Poetry Prize.
UGA Press announces their partnership Association of University Presses to host Ask UP for the spring 2023 quarter.
We’ve had a few new staff members (re)join us at The University of Georgia Press. In honor of UP Week’s theme this year, here’s a look at who is #NextUP at UGA Press and what excites them about the future of UGA Press, university presses, and the book industry.
The UGA Press is excited to announce that submissions for the Georgia Poetry Prize open on October 1st, 2022.