UGA Press to Host Ask UP

UGA Press announces their partnership Association of University Presses to host Ask UP for the spring 2023 quarter.

UP Hero Spotlight: David des Jardines

The recent death of Mark Saunders, director at University of Virginia Press, was a great loss to the university press community. Although I never worked with Saunders, I knew of him through various other associates and through the work I’ve done here at UGA Press the last two decades. Saunders’s contributions remind me of…

NOW HIRING: Accepting Applications for New Paid Internship in UGA Press’s Acquisitions Department

The UGA Press is looking for a detail-oriented student intern with a passion for books and publishing to work in our acquisitions editorial department for fall 2018 as our Wormsloe Foundation Acquisitions Intern. This is a paid position with a $3,000 stipend for the semester. It’s a great opportunity for anyone interested in becoming an…

Let’s Stay Together: A Taxonomy of Relationships between American University Presses and their Host Institutions

University of Georgia Press Director Lisa Bayer recently shared the opening keynote with Timothy Wright, Director of Edinburgh University Press at the University Press Redux 2018, hosted by UCL Press and ALPSP at the British Library in London, February 13-14. Here is the transcription of Lisa’s talk: A few years ago Peter Berkery, the then-new…

Short Takes: News and Reviews

On Short Takes today: Press news—Book Blowout 2017, author interviews, and more; announcing Annotations, a new podcast from UGA Press; BEA; Foreign Rights news; Awards news; and the latest reviews.

Peering into the Dark Underbelly of Peer Review (or Practice Makes Best)

How many acquisitions editors does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but she or he needs a group of expert advisers to help make the bulb bright enough, an editorial assistant to hold the ladder, and a faculty board to confirm the bulb is screwed in correctly. That’s my poor twist on…