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The Department of English invites submissions for the 2026 Margaret Harvin Writing Award, recognizing outstanding creative and critical work by Georgia College & State University undergraduate students who are enrolled in the arts, humanities, social sciences or physical sciences.If you like to write, this is your chance to let your creative works shine!  CATEGORIES AND LENGTHS: Please only submit one entry per category.Poetry: Up to three poems, maximum five pagesFiction / Creative...

Thursday, Nov. 13, from 6 until 7:30 p.m., Magnolia Ballroom: Please join us for a film screening of Yale Professor Karin Coonrod's adaptation of a Flannery O'Connor short story, "Everything That Rises Must Converge." There will be a panel discussion with the director and actor afterwards. Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. It's hosted by the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities. 

Book Launch & Reading: Kerry Neville, Momma May Be MadJoin us for the official launch of Georgia College & State University Creative Writing faculty member Kerry Neville’s new memoir, Momma May Be Mad, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, from 6:30 until 7:30 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room (221 N. Clarke Street, Milledgeville). The evening will feature a reading by the author, followed by a Q&A and book signing.Books will be available for purchase at the event and through Barnes...

The Flannery O’Connor Review, in partnership with the Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities, will hold a party celebrating the release of our 2025 issue! Faculty, staff, students and members of the wider community are invited to enjoy refreshments, take a look at the new issue and win fabulous Flannery-themed prizes! Whether you know very little about O'Connor or consider yourself an expert, you are welcome to join us.When: Tuesday, Sept. 30, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.Where: Pat...

Join us for a reading with Karen Salyer McElmurray, whose new book, I Could Name God in Twelve Ways: Essays (University Press of Kentucky, 2024), follows a celebrated career in memoir, fiction and essay.She is the author of Surrendered Child, winner of the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, Motel of the Stars and the co-edited anthology Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean. Her essays have earned the Annie Dillard Prize, the Orison Anthology Award, the New...