UGA CREATIVE WRITING

Save the date! We are so excited to welcome five incredible writers to our program this year!

We are just two weeks away from welcoming @katiekitamura to Athens! Katie will be in conversation with Lanier Distinguished Professor @JCObioma at 6pm in the Chapel. Afterward, we'll have an audience Q&A and then a book-signing with support from G H O S T!

Abhijit Sarmah and O-Jeremiah Agbaakin had a chance this summer to interview the 2025 Diann Blakely Winning Poet, Sihle Ntuli, selected by the 2025 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Vivek Narayanan and is included in his third collection, OWELE. blakely.uga.edu

See you tonight, Athens! 7pm @ATHICA : Athens Institute for Contemporary Art athica.org/event/joy-prie…

The Nation (River Glass Books 2023) alongside two full length collections Stranger (Aerial Publishing 2015) and Zabalaza Republic (Botsotso Publishing 2023) Sihle's name is pronounced with two syllables as See+Hle.

New Contrast in 2023. He is a 2024 Best of the Net poetry winner and a Pushcart prize nominee. His poems have appeared in ADDA stories, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks; Rumblin (uHlanga 2020) and...

We are THRILLED to share that Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Vivek Narayanan (@naravive) has selected Sihle Ntuli's poem "Shade or The Revelation of All Our Neighbourhood Has Lost" as the winning poem for the 2024-2025 Diann Blakely Poetry Competition! blakely.uga.edu

@naravive I forgot to tag you!

We are so thrilled to share the shortlist for the Diann Blakely National Poetry Competition. These poems were selected by the 2024-2025 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Vivek Narayanan. Please join us in congratulating these incredible poets!

UGACWP student @abhijitsarmah_ recently presented a paper titled “How to Be Good Ancestors? Examining Native Ancestors in Miko Kings and Man Made Monsters” as part of a special session “Indigenous Literatures Now! Collective Pasts and Presents” at the 2025 MLA Convention.

The UGACWP Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, Chigozie Obioma (@JCObioma) is pleased to welcome Kenzie Allen for a poetry reading on 3/14/25 from 6-7pm at Ciné. Avid Bookshop (@AvidBookshop) will have "Cloud Missives" available for purchase.

With the safety and security of our faculty, staff and students foremost in our minds, the University of Georgia Athens Campus will close and move to modified operations on Friday, January 10. All in-person classes, campus events and activities will be canceled throughout the day. news.uga.edu/uga-to-be-clos…

Sayantika Mandal (@Sayantikatweets) reflects on the importance of the lit mag for writers: "Writing is tough, often haunted by rejections, and questioning myself, and getting published in @december_mag certainly builds my confidence." buff.ly/40pfTpe

UGACWP student Asna Nusrat recently completed a translation of Tehzeeb Hafiz's نظم (Poem) from Urdu to English that was published in Column V of Lakeer magazine. lakeermag.com/prcolumn5/

Delighted to see Bengal Hound listed as one of the "most cherished reads of 2024" in The News on Sunday. thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/126… @CWPUGA @BUWrites

Mark your calendar for this event! Moving/Picture: Graduate Writers and Artists on the Moving Image Sunday, 11/24. 2 pm @ Athenaeum This interdisciplinary symposium will focus on the work of graduate students in UGA’s Creative Writing Program and Lamar Dodd School of Art.

We are so thrilled to announce the winner of the 2024-2025 SPARK Fellowship is Cooper Sunderland! Look for details on our website about his upcoming study abroad project, Art – A Refuge Abroad.

Join us for Student Spotlight on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at Tate Plaza and Stage! The event starts at 10 a.m. with student art for sale and continues with live performances from 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Also free food and Spotlight merch! More at arts.uga.edu. #spotlightuga