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.
“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.
The UGA Press is excited to announce that submissions for the Georgia Poetry Prize open on October 1st, 2022.
Carol Roh Spaulding has been chosen as this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Leah Nieboer as the winner of the2021 Georgia Poetry Prize. In partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology and theUniversity of Georgia, the University of Georgia Press established the Georgia Poetry Prize in2015 as a national competition that celebrates excellence in poetry. This year’s runner-up isMatthew Minicucci’s…
Toni Ann Johnson has been named this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her short story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2022. Established in 1983, the Flannery O’Connor Award seeks to encourage talented writers of short stories…
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