Readings

Readings, both Creative Writing and literature


“Can you see me? Here, in this place?”: Reading and Panel Discussion
Tue, 04/11/2023 - 11:04am
Join the Common Good Atlanta community and UGA English alumni for a reading of work authored by students at Whitworth Women’s Facility. The exhibition “Art is a form of freedom,” on view through July 2, presents a spoken-word celebration of voice. Taking the form of poetry, essays, fiction and philosophy, this ekphrastic writing reflects the power of art to create conversations across the carceral divide. The reading will be followed by a panel…

Visiting Author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Tue, 02/07/2023 - 10:20am
The English Department is thrilled to welcome Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi for a night of reading and audience interaction at the University of Georgia. The event will begin at 5pm and be hosted in the Miller Learning Center, Room 0248. This event is free and open to the public.  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is the author of Kintu, Let's Tell This Story Properly, and The Girl is a Body of Water. She is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature…

Leah Nieboer Book Launch and Poetry Reading- SOFT APOCALYPSE
Tue, 01/24/2023 - 1:23pm
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…

English Dept. Ph.D. students take part in ONE NIGHT ONLY
Tue, 10/25/2022 - 2:08pm
Come one, come all. Don your paper caps and join us in the parking lot behind the Athenaeum for ONE NIGHT ONLY, an old-time revival of objects, words, sounds, and movements that can’t be contained beneath a roof. The church doors have been torn asunder, the museum decorations dragged into the streets. Only the carnivalesque remains. This “syncretic pageantry of a ritualistic sort” aims to conjoin “the sacred with the profane,” boasting temporary…

Why Did the End of 'Game of Thrones' Suck?
Sun, 09/11/2022 - 10:49am
It is a truth almost universally acknowledged that the final season, and especially the final episode, of Game of Thrones was terrible. But why? In this talk, Professor Cody Marrs will contrast GoT (and analogues like Lost and Killing Eve) with shows that concluded successfully (like Breaking Bad and The Sopranos), to explore why certain endings are satisfying — or not. This event is part of Screen Time with Your Humanities Professors, a series…

Ph.D. Student Abhijit Sarmah to be a featured poets during the Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series
Thu, 08/18/2022 - 4:17pm
The University of Georgia Ph.D. student Abhijit Sarmah will be one of the featured poets during the Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series sponsored by the Emily Dickinson Museum.  This virtual event will take place on Thursday, August 26th at 6 p.m.  Registration information here. Sarmah is a poet and researcher of global indigenous writing, with particular focus on Native American women writers and literatures from Northeast India. His work is…

New Student Reading 2022!
Tue, 08/16/2022 - 12:11pm
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 Pulaski St…

Writer Phillip Carroll Morgan to Read at the University of Georgia
Thu, 08/11/2022 - 2:20pm
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 Press, 2022).  What…

American Indian Returnings (AIR) Talk 2022 Featuring Chadwick Allen
Thu, 06/02/2022 - 2:31pm
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 Advancement at the…

1 Student + 1 Alumnus: A Creative Writing Program Reading
Tue, 02/08/2022 - 2:36pm
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 Burning…
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