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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…

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 | 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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature LeAnne Howe presents scholar and author Chadwick Allen for her annual American Indian Returnings (AIR) Talk.  This year's AIR Talk will take place on the Autumnal Equinox, Thursday, September 29th, at 4:15 p.m.  The location of this year's talk is the Special Collections Library Rm 271, 300 S. Hull Street, Athens, GA 30602. Allen is Associate Vice Provost for Faculty…

Dr. Amrita Ghosh, a research fellow at the South Asia Center at Lund University in Sweden, will speak as part of the English Department Lecture Series.  Her talk, titled "Tagore and Yeats, Once More: On Critical Intimacies and the Nobel Prize," will take place over Zoom on Monday, April 4th at 2 p.m. Dr. Ghosh is a research fellow at South Asia Center, Lund University, Sweden, working on “fault lines” of South Asia in which she…

The Creative Writing Program is pleased to present a reading with current student Maxime Berclaz and alumnus Johnny Damm on Thursday, March 24th at 7 p.m.  This event will take place over Zoom.  Register in advance here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kdVR96vaRWCdHss6_tI_Gg. Maxime Berclaz is a PhD Student in Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, where he writes poetry and thinks about horror. He has published poems in…