University of Georgia Press

09/04/2025

There are some great opportunities available for grants from our friends at Georgia Humanities. Deadline is September 30. Good luck!

Applications are open for the Georgia Humanities fall grant cycle!

Grants of up to $2,500 are available to Georgia-based nonprofits to support public programs that engage communities in conversation, learning, and exchange. Apply by: September 30, 2025.

And new this cycle, we're also introducing a special America250 opportunity. With support from the America250 Commission and other federal partners, we welcome proposals that mark the nation's 250th anniversary. Think programs that explore the ideas that sparked the Revolution, the challenges that followed, and the legacies that still shape civic life.

Learn more and apply today: https://www.georgiahumanities.org/grants/

09/03/2025

Meridian Rising by is out this week! As NPR's .powers notes, this magical imagined memoir of American music legend Jimmie Rodgers is "Immersive and surprising...points toward new ways of keeping music history alive." Read our Q&A with Burch on the blog for more!
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This week we’re thrilled to release Meridian Rising by Paul Burch, the magical imagined memoir of American music legend Jimmie Rodgers, the Father of Country Music. Burch is a Nashville-based…

09/02/2025

We're thrilled to welcome multiple award-winning poet and director of Victoria Chang as new head judge of the Georgia Poetry Prize! Victoria will over see this year's submissions from 10/1-11/30. See today's blog post for more!
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UGA Creative Writing Program

The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce that Victoria Chang will serve as head judge for the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize.

08/26/2025

Today is National Dog Day! Celebrate by checking out our collection of titles devoted to man's best friend. 🦮🐾

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08/22/2025

Thank you to our friends at the Oxford American for including "Reckonings and Reconstructions" in their Fall 2025 edition! Edited by Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, the book features photographs and essays that tease apart the tangled cultural memory of the American South. Available at ugapress.org now!

08/21/2025

NOLA Face fans, this one is for you! Brooke Champagne will read excerpts of her latest memoir on Friday, August 22, at The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians. The reading starts at 6 p.m.

For more info visit: https://loom.ly/SvSjrPg

Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians upcoming events.

08/19/2025

Happy National Photography Day!📸 Check out our photography collection at ugapress.org!

08/12/2025

New interview from ArtsATL with authors Jonah McDonald and Zana Pouncey!

You can check out the newest edition in their series, Hiking Metro Atlanta's Hidden Forests, here https://www.ugapress.org/9781889596440/hiking-metro-atlantas-hidden-forests/

08/11/2025

Read the poetry collection by Kinsale Drake that Only Poems says enacts the "hope and promise of reciprocity"

The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket is available now at https://www.ugapress.org/9780820367309/the-sky-was-once-a-dark-blanket/

08/08/2025

NEW REVIEW for Guy Gugliotta's Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan

Available NOW at https://www.ugapress.org/9780820373362/grants-enforcer/

08/07/2025

It's Women in Translation Month. 🙌 Today we're celebrating Claire Bourhis-Mariotti's book, Wanted! A Nation!, that UGA Press published in 2023 with the generous support of Sarah Mills Hodge Fund and Université Paris 8 (Laboratoire TransCrit).