Join The Georgia Review and UGA's MFA program in Narrative Media Writing for a special event with author Kristal Brent Zook. For more than twenty years, Dr. Kristal Brent Zook has reported on social issues such as health, education, culture, politics, race, gender, and the environment. She is an award-winning journalist and author of four […]
Join The Georgia Review and Lostintheletters for a 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 the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join The Georgia Review and The Hudgen’s Center for Art & Learning for a reading and conversation with Victoria Dugger and Courtney Faye Taylor in honor of Victoria Dugger's exhibition "Must Be Nice." Victoria Dugger (b. 1991, Columbus, Georgia) is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens, Georgia. Her recent exhibitions include New Worlds: […]
This UGA Poetry Festival keynote event features readings and Q&A with celebrated poet Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Robin Coste Lewis, a National Book Award winner and former poet laureate of Los Angeles. The event is part of the University’s 2025 Fall Signature Lecture Series. Those who […]
This UGA Poetry Festival event features readings, Q&A, and book-signing with celebrated poets Michael Collier, Vievee Francis, and Garrett Hongo. The festival takes place November 4-5 and is presented by The Georgia Review and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the department of English and the Creative Writing Program, as part […]
Continuing its tradition, The Georgia Review will be presenting an interdisciplinary symposium for graduate students from the UGA Creative Writing Program and Lamar Dodd School of Art to showcase their creative work during Spotlight on the Arts. The theme for this year is “Natural History.” As a term "Natural History" relates to curation, classification, and preservation. It focuses […]
The Georgia Review and the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center invite the public to a reading with Finnish-American author Hanna Pylväinen, where she will read from The End of Drum-Time, her historical novel set in the Scandinavian tundra during 1851. The book, which was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award, follows a Lutheran […]
JOIN US FOR A READING WITH BRENDA IIJIMA AND SARETTA MORGAN FEBRUARY 5 @4pm THE ATHENAEUM Q+A and book signing, reception to follow at The Special Collections Library This event is supported in part by the Building Southern Intersectional Futures grant from the Mellon Foundation and the Institute for Women’s and […]
Poet Tarfia Faizullah and author Jamel Brinkley will read from their work and take part in a moderated Q&A with Athens-Clarke County Poet Laureate Mikhayla Robinson-Smith in an event organized by The Georgia Review and the Institute for African American Studies, with support from the Center for Asian Studies and book sales by Rec Room Books. […]
