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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 8h

We're happy to announce that Weston Morrow’s poetry collection CLOUD BUILDER is one of this year's National Poetry Series winners! We will publish his collection next fall.
#poetryprize #poetry #nationalpoetryseries
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Weston Morrow’s National Poetry Series-Winning Collection to be Published by University of Georgia Press

The National Poetry Series has recently announced the recipients of the 2025 poetry prize. As one of five participating presses, the University of Georgia Press will publish Weston Morrow’s winning…

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 10h

We are pleased to announce that My Withered Legs and other Essays by Sandra Gail Lambert has been awarded winner of the 2025 @lambdaliterary.org Award for Lesbian Memoir/ Biography!🏆 You can order her book at ugapress.org

#lgbtq #lesbianliterary
https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2025-winners/

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 1d

We're thrilled to announce that @awpwriter.bsky.social has selected Brittany Perham's EXECUTRIX winner of the 2025 Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction! We'll publish the book fall 2026.
#creativenonfiction #essays #CNF
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Brittany Perham Wins the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction from the AWP

The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Brittany Perham as the winner of this year’s Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction from the Association of Writers and Writing P…

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 1d

Winner of the 2024 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, A. Muia's 'A Desert Between Two Seas' is set amid the ruins of 19th-c Baja missions and follows a guilt-stricken priest & a deaf pistolera as they seek redemption in a stark, haunted land.
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Available: bit.ly/4nuXDn9

Promotional graphic for A Desert Between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories by A. Muia, published by University of Georgia Press. The book cover shows a desert landscape at sunset, with dark mountains and the silhouette of a mission or chapel against glowing orange and purple skies.

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 1d

Award-winning authors Clifford Thompson & Susan Cheever will have a wide-ranging, free-flowing discussion about writing, family, life, and their new works. The talk starts at 7 p.m. at Community Bookstore.
RSVP: https://loom.ly/WgmMmi8

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · 2d

This week in Atlanta: I'm delighted to be reading from unMothered, unTongued, winner of the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social, this Thursday, October 9, at 7:00 p.m., at the Emory Bookstore (First Floor).

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Check out Danielle Chu's review of Rowan Lubbock's "Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, Alba, and the Politics of Food
Sovereignty," published in 2024 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #foodhist #aghist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 4d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Memoir/Biography: My Withered Legs and Other Essays by Sandra Gail Lambert! 🎉🎉🎉 @sandragaillambert.bsky.social @ugapress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 2d

Pia Jordan, author of Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters, will discuss her research and book on the Tuskegee Airmen Nurses today at noon on @wusfpublicmedia's "Florida Matters" Live and Local.
🎙 https://www.wusf.org/podcast/florida-matters

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Roy Christopher @roychristopher.com · 9d

THE MEDIUM PICTURE exists! Out on October 15th from @ugapress.bsky.social! Preorder yours now: www.themediumpicture.com

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 7d

One more month until "All Geographers should be Feminist Geographers!" Published by @ugapress.bsky.social

Book cover with open book and quill sculpture on a college campus.

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 6d

In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, we appreciate our collaboration with University of Georgia Press. They excel in publishing remarkable works on Civil Rights, Black culture, and 20th-century U.S. history.
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 6d

Proud to have published three books with university presses, @iupress.bsky.social, @ugapress.bsky.social, & @uchicagopress.bsky.social. University presses are essential for generating & sharing scholarship more broadly, creating public-intellectual works that engage, enrich, & persist. 📚✍️

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 6d

Worth repeating, and appreciating every day: "More than 100 of North America’s top universities clearly believe that an energetic, outward-facing publishing program is a tremendous asset to, indeed a responsibility of, any university."

Why institutions should continue to support their university presses (opinion)

Institutions can be unfamiliar with what their university presses do or with their own integral role in supporting scholarly publishing, argue Kathryn Conrad and Jennifer Crewe, which can lead to hasty or inaccurate judgments.

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 5d

New book review -- Beverley Mullings on Jennifer L. Tucker's "Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development" antipodeonline.org/category/boo... @ugapress.bsky.social

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 6d

Come visit us at the #decaturbookfestival this Saturday at booths 96 & 97!📚🤩

Also check out our virtual exhibit page to access our books that will be present at the festival! These books can be ordered for 40% off with free domestic shipping.

Order at https://www.ugapress.org/exhibits/dbf/

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 6d

“You really learn the importance of this person who is sharing the journey with you, even when I was hard to love."—Tom Johnson talks to the @AP about Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN.
#driven #TomJohnson #LBJ #CNN #depression #LATimes
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After accomplishments in politics, media, former CNN chief Tom Johnson makes mental health his cause

After a career as a presidential aide, publisher of two newspapers and CNN president, Tom Johnson has plenty of stories to swap.

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 7d

Join Jonah McDonald and Zana Pouncey, authors of Hiking Metro Atlanta's Hidden Forests, and Ann Litrel and Charles Seabrook, authors of 35 Natural Wonders of Georgia to See before You Die, at Decatur Book Festival this Saturday! ⛰️✨

More information here: https://loom.ly/N7iK95g

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 7d

The annual Georgia Poetry Prize is 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 your entry before November 30 at https://loom.ly/l7de_v0
#georgiapoetryprize #ugapress #poetry

UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 8d

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 8d

Tom Johnson, author of Driven and former CNN President, along with foreword writer and senior correspondent for PBS, Judy Woodruff stopped by "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown today to discuss the importance of honest journalism.
📺: www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/t...

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 9d

Learn more about Johnson's new book Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN. Here: www.ugapress.org/978082037453...

UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 9d

Tom Johnson shares his journey from serving as President Lyndon B. Johnson's assistant to CNN's president while battling depression on this segment of Amanpour.
📺https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/Tv/video/amanpour-tom-johnson-driven
@camanpour.bsky.social #Journalism #LBJ #CNN #Driven

CNN’s former president reflects on his front row seat to history | CNN

Tom Johnson joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss his new book “Driven,” reflections on working in the White House and running CNN.

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 11d

Save-the-date: On Monday (9/29/25) join author Paul Burch at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA, for a talk on "Meridian Rising: A Novel."

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/paul-burch-meridian-rising-tickets-1666067265039?aff=StoreWebsite

#Countrybluegrass #jimmierodgers #booklaunch #authorevent

Paul Burch, Meridian Rising

Main Point Books welcomes author Paul Burch and Guest Host Paul Hendrickson

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 12d

Hello from the 110th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference in Atlanta!

9/26/25 TONIGHT: Paul Pressly (A Southern Underground Railroad) has an author signing event from 7-10pm.

@asalhbhm #ASALH2025 #ASALHAtlanta

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · 19d

I'm excited to be giving the kickoff reading for the Indie Lit Festival on September 26, at Main Street Books, 2 East Main Street in Frostburg, MD. This will be my first reading out for unMothered, unTongued, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social !

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