Happy #WorldWildlifeDay from UGAPress! 🐘🌱🐋 Today we celebrate the diverse species that sustain our ecosystems. We also recognize the authors whose work deepens our understanding of wildlife and inspires efforts to protect these species for the future of our planet. 🌏
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#TodayInHistory in 2005, Justice Leah Ward Sears became the first African American woman in the nation to serve as Chief Justice of any state Supreme Court when she assumed leadership of the Georgia Supreme Court.
https://www.ugapress.org/9780820356822/justice-leah-ward-sears/
📌 Online author event, Wednesday (3/4/26), 6:30pm Pacific standard time
Join UGA Press author A. Muia for a discussion of her new award-winning book, A Desert between Two Seas.
📌 Register to receive the link: https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/events/6966c5a4491b809c6f12ae98
PSA for UGA Press authors (all authors, really): There is a proliferation of sophisticated AI phishing scams going around. Many look legit b/c they hide behind the banner of a "book club." Please don't engage them! Here's a good blog post on the phenomenon. https://loom.ly/ahTL8A0
The UGA Press, the @ugacwp.bsky.social, and Poetry@Tech are pleased to announce Alafia Nicole Sessions as the winner of the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize! Read the full announcement here: https://loom.ly/5vnLiMY
REMINDER: UGA Press & @ugacwp.bsky.social host an evening of poetry with 2024 #georgiapoetryprize winner Michael J. Walsh TONIGHT at the Athenaeum!
https://loom.ly/j2jqWhw
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We're celebrating #PresidentsDay by honoring America's 39th president, Jimmy Carter! Check out these titles to learn more about his life, legacy, and presidency.
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Let's celebrate #ValentinesDay by reflecting on UGA Press books that include love in their title! The books range from fiction & stories, memoirs & essays, to historical & academic. ❤️😍🖤
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UGA baseball season is back in full swing today at 3pm!⚾ Kick off the '25-'26 season in spirit by checking out these featured baseball titles.
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#ugabaseball #ugapress
UGA Press and @ugacwp.bsky.social invite you to an evening of poetry with Michael Walsh at the Athenaeum on Feb. 18!🎉
He will be signing and reading his book, A Season, the 2024 #GeorgiaPoetryPrize winner selected by Andrew Zawacki.
Pre-order at ugapress.org
Calling all #AWP26 folks!
💫 What: Authors from UGA Press’ Crux Nonfiction Series: Ashley Anderson, Wes Jamison, Alison Kinney, & Yelizaveta Renfro
💫 Where: The Ivy in Baltimore, MD
💫 When: 3/5, 7pm
https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/the-university-of-georgia-press-crux-nonfiction-series/
Estamos celebrando Bad Bunny y su actuación en la Super Bowl con nuestra “georgiariqueña” autora, Judith Ortiz Cofer, quien escribió sobre la “infinita variedad” de la experiencia puertorriqueña.
This #BlackHistoryMonth we’re highlighting UGA Press books that explore Black history across various subjects. Publishing scholarship that amplifies Black voices & histories is our mission.
Explore the stories shaping Black history by reading with us at ugapress.org!📚
#ReadBlackHistory
LISTEN: Guy Gugliotta, author of Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan, speaks to @npr.org's Throughline about Amos Akerman: a former Confederate soldier & slaveholder who became the U.S. government’s most zealous warrior against the KKK.
https://loom.ly/hSCV8Z0
Author Kathryn Beasley's recent presentation with the Alabama Department of Archives & History on her book The Proof is in the Dough explores how southern women applied their agricultural and domestic skills to improve their lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it91VZZuCxg
Happy Publication Day to all of these wonderful authors! 🎉✏️📖 Check out these New Releases on our website: ugapress.org
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Join us in celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth! We've curated a special list of books written by Black authors that are 40% OFF during the month of February. Use code < 08BLKHIST26 > at checkout!
Find our unique book list here: https://www.ugapress.org/black-history-month-sale/
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We are thrilled to announce that Jazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays by Clifford Thompson has been selected as a Finalist for the 2026 PEN America /Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay! 🎉
Congrats, Clifford!
https://www.ugapress.org/9780820374642/jazz-june/
Please join us in welcoming Raquel Thorne, our newest Acquisitions Editor! She is finishing up her Graduate Certificate in Publishing Management at George Washington University & holds a PhD in English Literature from University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Learn more here! https://loom.ly/VcffClU
Join us in honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and dream this #MLKDay.
He was a leader who believed in the power of education, service, and collective action to transform society. Learn more about his life, vision, and motivations through our recommended books.
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We're feeling nostalgic looking back at UGApress in #2016... feels like it was just yesterday.🥹 Which of our titles do you remember reading in 2016?
Archivist and writer Valerie J. Frey will give an author talk at the Atlanta History Center on1/28/26, 7pm.
Online ticket sales close at 5pm EST on the day of the event. Tickets will be available at the door prior to the event start time. https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/event/valerie-j-frey/
So excited to see Clifford Thompson’s Jazz June included! Congrats to all nominees! 🎉
#TBT to Acquisitions Editor Sarah Shermyen's visit to NYC for the Cave Canem 25th Anniversary Prize Reception on November 5, 2025! We're looking forward to publishing the 2025 award-winner in Fall 2026.
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![Promotional graphic for "Porgy's Ghost" by Harlan Greene from the University of Georgia Press. The book cover is to the left of the graphic, showing a photograph of Dorothy Heyward looking straight at the camera and her husband DuBose Heyward looking at her. A review quote from Kevin Sack is to the right of the cover, reading "an adventure in literary sleuthing worthy of Sherlock Holmes [...] Meticulously researched and exquisitely written". The logo for the University of Georgia Press is below this in a complementary rust colour which matches Heyward's dress on the cover.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:znl3pr7g3j5ejxunl4l5ouvz/bafkreiarxjwg2yp23tvpmr2xz4m6jywu2uklyrue43456nwgqitp4i45gu)
Promotional graphic for "Porgy's Ghost" by Harlan Greene from the University of Georgia Press. The book cover is to the left of the graphic, showing a photograph of Dorothy Heyward looking straight at the camera and her husband DuBose Heyward looking at her. A review quote from Kevin Sack is to the right of the cover, reading "an adventure in literary sleuthing worthy of Sherlock Holmes [...] Meticulously researched and exquisitely written". The logo for the University of Georgia Press is below this in a complementary rust colour which matches Heyward's dress on the cover.
What if a beloved American classic was quietly shaped by a woman who hid her own brilliance? "Porgy’s Ghost" uncovers Dorothy Heyward’s forgotten influence and invites scholars to rethink the authorship they thought they knew.
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A Desert Between Two Seas by A. Muia The University of Georgia Press Short Story Collection. This Flannery O’Connor Award-winning collection opens in 1820 Baja California, where a mission priest bedecks a Virgin Mary statue with pearls his adopted Cohchimí son has plucked from the sea. The fate of the priest, the boy, and the last, resplendent pearl kicks off a century’s worth of interconnected stories that illuminate this fascinating setting and elemental human themes: love, jealousy, penitence, warfare, greed, fidelity, and faith. We meet a mescalera, a fierce, beautiful earless woman, and a miraculous donkey born from a mule. Muia writes incantatory prose that taps into folklore and history to deliver its surprises, joys, and wisdom. (Jenny Shank)
And don't sleep on A DESERT BETWEEN TWO SEAS by A. Muia (@ugapress.bsky.social)! #booksky
