UGA Creative Writing Program

UGA Creative Writing Program has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in February 2024. The social media accounts linked to from UGA Creative Writing Program are: • Facebook • Instagram • YouTube • LinkedIn • Email • Threads • X • Bluesky • Website Besides social media accounts, ugacwp has populated their site with: • Undergraduates Interested In Creative Writing ListServ • Chigozie Obioma named one of the 100 most influential Africans by New African Magazine • Winner of the 2024-2025 SPARK Fellowship: Cooper Sunderland! • 2024-2025 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet: Vivek Narayanan • Aruni Kashyap's next novel to be published by HarperVia in 2026 • Priyadarshini Gogoi shortlisted for Neev Book Award • Holly Haworth's first collection of poetry published and nominated for a Weatherford Award • Creative Writing doctoral student Abhijit Sarmah named for the second consecutive year as finalist for major poetry fellowship • Priyadarshini Gogoi wins UGA Presidential Fellowship • Rahad Abir named Georgia Author of the Year • Reginald McKnight selected to judge the 75th National Book Awards for Fiction • Nneoma Ike-Njoku described as 'incredibly exciting new talent' signs novel with Scribner • LeAnne Howe Delivers Plenary Talk at The 50th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies • Creative Writing Student Sayantika Mandal's poem published in Glassworks Magazine • Aruni Kashyap to deliver the 2024 Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature at Cornell University • Hannah V Warren Debuts Poetry Collection, Slaughterhouse for Old Wives' Tales • LeAnne Howe cited as "one of Native America’s greatest writers and theorists" • Christina Wood Receives Writer of Note Grant • Holly Haworth wins 2023 Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant • Click here to view the archive of previous events • 2025 New Student Reading • Creative Writing Program Welcomes Booker Prize Finalist Neel Mukherjee THURS 10/23 | Department of English • 2025-2026 Blakely Poet, Karla Kelsey • UGA Creative Writing Program grows global literary community on campus • Creative Writing Graduate Student Selected for Tin House Workshop • Chigozie Obioma interview featured on Booker Prizes website • 4/17/26 6pm: Lanier Reading Series: Katie Kitamura in Conversation with Chigozie Obioma • Dr. Andrew Zawacki publishes photo-poetry book | Department of English • O-Jeremiah Agbaakin Receives the 2025 John Lewis Writing Grant for Poetry • Book Launch & Garden Party for Andrew Zawacki's THESE LATE ECLIPSES • Palestinian Performance Artist Fargo Nissim Tbakhi • VIDEO: Scholars' Library Extra: Andrew Zawacki • Daniel Barnum interviews Palestinian performance artist Fargo Nissim Tbakhi • 5/1/25 5-7pm: Exit Reading with UGACWP Graduating PhD Students • O-Jeremiah Agbaakin awarded The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 25/26 • Chigozie Obioma Featured in Fifty Four Mag’s Issue 15 • Chigozie Obioma On Legacy, Language & the African Novel_ Fifty Four Mag’s Issue 15: Written Legacy • Thursday, August 27th 6pm | Creative Writing Program New Student Reading 2026 • How Aruni Kashyap helped shape UGA's global creative writing program | Franklin College of Arts and Sciences • Radical Books Collective | Book Club: How To Date A Fanatic by Aruni Kashyap • Chigozie Obioma’s Producer Debut Call of My Life Closes In on ₦1 Billion, Becomes Nollywood’s Highest-Grossing Film of 2026 • Donate to Support the Creative Writing Program • 11/2/26 An Evening of Poetry with Patricia Smith in Conversation with Chigozie Obioma • Aruni Kashyap selected as a 2024-2025 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow • Diann Blakely Emerging Poet Prize Winner: Gabriel Awuah Mainoo • Visit Our Website • Meet Our Faculty & Staff • Meet Our Graduate Students • Subscribe for Event Promotions • Sihle Ntuli wins The 2024-2025 Diann Blakely Poetry Competition • arts 24 Interview: Chigozie Obioma on being an African writer today • Jake Syersak Awarded Translation Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts • Abhijit Sarmah finalist for coveted national poetry fellowship • 11/8/24 The Poet Translator: "At last the language becomes really foreign"