Congratulations to Creative Writing faculty, former faculty and MFA alumna - Prof. Peter Selgin, Dr. Chika Unigwe, Prof. Laura Newbern, Alice Friman and Neesha Powell-Ingabire - for their nominations for Georgia Author of the Year Awards!
Congratulations to Creative Writing faculty, former faculty and MFA alumna - Prof. Peter Selgin, Dr. Chika Unigwe, Prof. Laura Newbern, Alice Friman and Neesha Powell-Ingabire - for their nominations for Georgia Author of the Year Awards!
Congratulations to Creative Writing faculty, former faculty and a MFA alumna for their nominations for Georgia Author of the Year Awards! It's amazing that so many of the nominees are part of Georgia College & State University's Creative Writing Program. Good luck to Peter, Chika, Laura, Alice and Neesha!
https://www.authoroftheyear.org/2025-nominees
Literary Novel:
Professor Peter Selgin, A Boy's Guide to Outer Space
Dr. Chika Unigwe, The Middle Daughter
Memoir:
GCSU MFA alumna Neesha Powell-Ingabire, Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast
Poetry-Full-Length Book:
Professor Laura Newbern, A Night in the Country
Former faculty Alice Friman, On the Overnight Train
Updated: 2025-05-12