UGA Press is celebrating Latine Heritage Month. Check out a few must-read books by Latine and Hispanic authors!
All titles are available on our website: ugapress.org.
#latineheritagemonth #latineauthors #hispanicheritagemonth #UGAPress

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Founded in 1938, UGA Press currently publishes 60-70 new books a year, ranging from works of scholarship; creative and literary works; regional books; and digital projects.
UGA Press is celebrating Latine Heritage Month. Check out a few must-read books by Latine and Hispanic authors!
All titles are available on our website: ugapress.org.
#latineheritagemonth #latineauthors #hispanicheritagemonth #UGAPress
Submissions for the Georgia Poetry Prize are now OPEN!🏆
Our competition is held in collaboration with Georgia Tech’s Poetry@Tech and UGA’s Creative Writing Program to celebrate excellent works in poetry.
Submit before Nov. 30 at https://loom.ly/l7de_v0
Still thinking about the Artist Talk and Reception event with Benjamin Dimmit, author of An Unflinching Look.
The gallery, curated by Amy Abbe, displays photographs from his book.
Check out the gallery until Oct. 17 at the Circle Gallery!🖼️
We are pleased to announce Prageeta Sharma as head judge for the 2026 Georgia Poetry Prize!
Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry, a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, and the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College. More on the blog: https://loom.ly/rZa66aU
We are pleased to announce Kasey Peters as the winner of the 2026 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction!🎊
Their collection Stop If You Want To was selected by series editor Lori Ostlund and will be published in the fall 2027. Read the announcement on our blog: https://loom.ly/QRrttuI
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Chicago friends, join Will Boast, author of The Submerged, and Daniel Raeburn for their event at Pilsen Community Books! When: September 15th | 6:30 PM Where: Pilsen Community Books| 1531 W. 18th Street, Chicago, IL
Oregon friends, come see Ann Merrill discuss her new book, Flora's Interpreters, at Broadway Books!
When: September 24 | 6:00 PM
Where: Broadway Books | 1714 NE Broadway St, Portland, OR 97232
Find more information at https://broadwaybooks.net/event/2026-09-24/annie-merrill
“Morrow’s thoughtfully stunning debut collection shows its readers we are speaking of a past that is closer than we think, that is not past at all.” Read the full review of Weston Morrow's Cloud Builder in Ninth Letter.
https://ninthletter.com/feature/featured-writer-130-weston-morrow/
Join us in remembering Wendell Berry (1934-2026), author, poet, essayist, farmer, and environmentalist. His poem "The Heron" appears in A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, edited by Rose McLarney, Laura-Gray Street and L. L. Gaddy. #UGAPress #WendellBerry
National Hip Hop Celebration Day is observed annually on August 11. Check out Joycelyn Wilson's new book Hacking Hip Hop or this on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/show/fight-power-how-hip-hop-changed-world/