UGA Creative Writing Program
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The Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia directs and supports the emergence of the artistic voice in print by offering a PhD in English with a creative dissertation. Our program fosters serious conversations about aesthetics and criticism, experience and culture, and politics and history: in the classroom as well as at public readings and lectures. Our faculty and students play an active role in the cultural life of Athens, both as artists and organizers.
05/15/2026
Last month, UGACWP's Chigozie Obioma travelled to Morocco for the Marrakech African Book Festival and sat down to discuss being an African writer today in an interview with Lyana Saleh on France 24's show arts24. Watch the interview: https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20260430-booker-prize-nominee-chigozie-obioma-on-being-an-african-writer-today
04/14/2026
Congratulations are in order for Gabriel Awuah Mainoo for being selected as this year's Diann Blakely Emerging Poet! Gratitude to this year's Diann Blakely Visiting Poet, Karla Kelsey for selecting the winning poem from the more than 200 submissions we received this year!
Visit the Blakely Archive to read his poem "A Pathogenesis of the First Slave Ship" and learn more about him and his work! https://blakely.uga.edu/emerging-poets-archive/2025-2026
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