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DYI Dawgs: A FanZine Frenzy
Celebrate creativity, the unconventional, and the desire to geek out over whatever your obsession is at DIY Dawgs: A FanZine Frenzy. Zines are noncommercial, handmade publications where you can share your unique voice and interests. Zines are all about connecting through words and art --there is nothing slick or materialistic about these DIY creations. DIY Dawgs: A FanZine Frenzy will start on 3/16 From 12 to 2 in the forecourt of Park Hall.…

Michael Dowdy - "Tell Me about Your Bad Guys: Fathering in Anxious Times"
This (multimedia) conversation with award-winning poet and writer Michael Dowdy on his new book of creative nonfiction, Tell Me about Your Bad Guys: Fathering in Anxious Times (University of Nebraska Press, 2025), is sponsored by the department of English and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the UGA Humanities Festival. Hailing from Appalachia and currently professor of English at Villanova University,…

Write@UGA 2025: Morning Workshop—Designing AI-Engaged Assignments to Teach Disciplinary Knowledge
On Thursday, February 20, 2025, Write@UGA at the University of Georgia will proudly host this year’s guest speaker event series. The events will take place in person (with other accommodations by request), featuring keynote speaker Dr. Christopher Basgier, Director of University Writing at Auburn University, where he consults with departments about integrating writing and high-impact practices throughout undergraduate and graduate curricula.…

Write@UGA Workshop: Teaching Writing in the Context of AI
How do large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT work, and how are undergraduates using them now? How might faculty take advantage of the benefits of LLMs to boost learning across the curriculum? How might we do so ethically, and how should we respond when students lean on the technology too much? This workshop will provide a brief introduction to LLMs; examples of how faculty and students have been using LLMs in undergraduate courses; and…

Creative Writing New Student Reading
The Creative Writing Program is delighted to present our first event of the 2023 – 24 academic year, The New Student Reading!  We will celebrate the work of three Ph.D. students: O-Jeemiah Agbaakin, Colin Bishoff, and Erik B. Brown. This event is free and open for the public.   About the Readers:   O-Jeremiah Agbaakin is the author of The Sign of the Ram (APBF/Akashic Books, 2023), selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris…

Reading and Craft Lecture by Naheed Phiroze Patel
Reading and Craft Lecture by Naheed Phiroze Patel | View on YouTube The Creative Writing Program at UGA and the Willson Center are delighted to host Willson Center Short Term Visiting Fellow Naheed Phiroze Patel.  Naheed Phiroze Patel is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Her writing has appeared in the New England Review, The Guardian, Lit Hub, Poets & Writers, Chicago Review of Books,…

Leah Nieboer Book Launch and Poetry Reading- SOFT APOCALYPSE
The Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia and the UGA Press are proud to host Leah Nieboer to launch her new book Soft Apocalypse. Along with the Creative Writing Program and the UGA Press, Avid Bookshop will also be on site to sell copies of Soft Apocalypse. The author will read from her book at the event, hosted at Ciné on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, from 7:00pm to 8:30pm. This event is free and open to the public. Masks are…

New Student Reading 2022!
The Creative Writing Program was pleased to present our first in-person new student reading and welcome reception since 2019!  We celebrated the work of six Ph.D. students: Nneoma Ike-Njuko and Sayantika Mandal, who matriculated in 2020; Maxime Bercalz, who matriculated in 2021; and our newest Ph.D. students, Ellen Boyette, D. T. Lumpkin, and Abhijit Sarmah.  This free event will take place on Thursday, September 1st at Athica, 675…

Writer Phillip Carroll Morgan to Read at the University of Georgia
Eidson Chair of American Literature LeAnne Howe, with the Creative Writing Program, is pleased to present writer Phillip Carroll Morgan (Choctaw/Chickasaw) for a reading on Thursday, October 13th at 7 p.m.  The location of the event is the Zell B. Miller Learning Center Room 0248, 48 Baxter St, Athens, GA 30602.  This event is free and open to the public. Morgan will read from his new novel, The Lost River (Chickasaw Nation…

2023 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet
The Creative Writing Program is pleased present a reading by the inaugural Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Allison Cobb on Thursday, January 26th at 7 p.m.  The event will take place at Ciné, 234 W Hancock Ave, Athens, GA 30601.  The winner of the inaugural Diann Blakely National Poetry Competition will also be announced at the event. Cobb is the author of four books: Plastic: an Autobiography (winner of the Oregon Book Award); Green-Wood…
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