Latest Past Events

A Reading with Aaliyah Bilal and Kiese Laymon

Avid Bookshop 1662 S Lumpkin St, Athens

Aaliyah Bilal photo by Tasha Pinelo. Kiese Laymon photo by Yungpainkiller.   The Georgia Review, Avid Bookshop, the Athens-Clarke County Library, and the Institute for African American Studies at UGA  invite the public to a reading with Aaliyah Bilal and Kiese Laymon. This event is on Thursday, January 23, 2025, at Avid Bookshop. The reading […]

The Georgia Review + McSweeney’s present John Brandon’s New Novel

Buvez 585 Barber St, Athens

Join author John Brandon in person in celebration of his new novel Penalties of June, out now from McSweeney's.    The millennium is drawing to a close. Pratt, a young Floridian who’s just finished a prison sentence he both did and didn’t deserve, is looking to start a new life. But will he be able […]

A Poetry Reading with Pulitzer Winner Brandon Som and Siwar Masannat 

Georgia Museum of Art 90 Carlton St, Athens

Join The Georgia Review and UGA Press, in partnership with the Georgia Museum of Art, for a poetry reading not to be missed! Brandon Som will read from his 2024 Pulitzer Prize–winning collection, Tripas, whose poems are built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in celebration of his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on […]