Creative Writing professor wins prize for poetry

Creative Writing professor wins prize for poetry

Wonderful news! Georgia College and State University's Creative Writing Program offers our congratulations to Professor Laura Newbern, a winner of the 2023 Changes Book Prize in poetry. Her second collection of poems, "A Night in the Country," has been selected by 2020 Nobel Laureate in Literature Louise Glück as one of the winners of this prize and will be published in Spring 2024.

In addition to publication, Professor Newbern receives a $10,000 award. 

Her previous book, Love and the Eye, was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Kore Press First Book Award in 2010. Professor Newbern is an Associate Professor of English at GCSU.

Updated: 2023-02-21
Dr. Kerry Neville
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