Conversations

The Loraine Williams Poetry Prize is open from March 1 to May 15. Each year one winner gets $1,500 and publication. We also publish three finalists, each of whom receives […]

A Conversation with the Curators of Beverly’s Athens On the occasion of the exhibition Beverly’s Athens, which runs from January 16 to March 21, 2026 at University of Georgia’s Athenaeum […]

Rumena Bužarovska is a prominent writer living in North Macedonia and a friend of mine. She visited two years ago right before my new book, On the Overnight Train: New […]

In May 2025, the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, hosted a book launch for Micaela Sahhar’s Find Me at the Jaffa Gate, a graceful and steadfast work of […]

Brandon Som’s Tripas (Georgia Review Books, 2023) won a Pulitzer Prize in poetry and was a finalist for a National Book Award. He is also the author of The Tribute Horse, winner of the […]

Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collections The Last Catastrophe and Of This New World; her debut novel, Eleutheria, was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and shortlisted for the […]

Daniela Danz and I have corresponded since 2015, when I first began translating her work. While our exchanges were initially practical or logistical in nature, we started engaging in conversations […]

INTRODUCTION Black Guy White Guy Talking is a podcast where good friends Elwyn Laud-Hammond and Zachary Watterson talk about gun ownership, reparations, and housing, among other things. They speak with […]

Cole Swensen, judge of our 2024 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, is the author of nineteen books of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023); a collection of hybrid ekphrastic essay-poems, Art in […]

Georgia Review graduate editor Sarah Shermyen recently spoke over Zoom with GR contributor Caylin Capra-Thomas about finding home, Florida, and our understandings of beauty. This is an edited version of […]

Award-winning fiction writer Danielle Evans is the final judge of our second annual Georgia Review Prose Prize. Here, associate prose editor Maggie Su interviews Evans about short-story craft and books […]

Audre Lorde said that “poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeletal architecture of our lives.” If some poetry serves as the bones of this architecture, Ariana […]