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Come, celebrate GCSU students’ creative written works 
Announcement    Monday, March 30, 2026
Prepare to be amazed as you listen to Georgia College & State University’s refined, student writers read excerpts from their creative works at the Margaret Harvin Wilson Writing Award Ceremony. The celebration takes place Tuesday, March 31, at 5 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room. Refreshments will be served.Each finalist will receive a certificate and cash award. They will also be recognized on Front Page — GCSU’s online news source and in their hometown newspapers.This...
Come, celebrate GCSU students’ creative written works 
Event    Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Prepare to be amazed as you listen to Georgia College & State University’s refined, student writers read excerpts from their creative works at the Margaret Harvin Wilson Writing Award Ceremony. The celebration takes place Tuesday, March 31, at 5 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room. Refreshments will be served.Each finalist will receive a certificate and cash award. They will also be recognized on Front Page — GCSU’s online news source and in their hometown newspapers.This...
The 2025 Margaret Harvin Wilson Writing Award finalists
GCSU Undergraduate Creative Writing Reading
Event    Thursday, April 9, 2026
Please join us on Thursday, April 9, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM for the annual GCSU Undergraduate Creative Writing Reading in the Museum Education Room at Russell Library (221 N Clarke Street, Milledgeville).This year's graduating class is one of our most accomplished in recent memory, with publications appearing in Oyster River Pages, Modern Flash Fiction, Glass Mountain, Green Blotter, The Peacock's Feet, and Kennings Artistic and Literary Journal, to name a few. Honors include an acceptance...
GCSU Creative Writing Program and GCSU Early College: Writers in the Schools, 6th Grade Creative Writing Performance
Event    Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Georgia College & State University Creative Writing Program and GCSU Early College: Writers in the Schools, 6th Grade Creative Writing Performance with GCSU MFA and Undergraduate Creative Writing Student-Teachers
Literary Guild: Women in Literature 
Event    Thursday, March 12, 2026
Come, join Literary Guild to discuss your favorite women in literature, either authors or characters. We want to uplift female voices from across the years in honor of Women’s History Month. The meeting is in Arts and Sciences, room 151 at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 12. We’ll save you a seat!
GCSU's Creative Writing Program Visiting Writers Series Book Launch: Nine Persimmons - A reading with Kerry James Evans
Event    Tuesday, April 14, 2026
The Creative Writing Program and the Department of English invite you to join us in celebrating the publication of Nine Persimmons, the new poetry collection by Kerry James Evans, published by The Backwaters/University of Nebraska Press.“Nine Persimmons is a major victory.”—Rodney Jones, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and author of Salvation Blues and Elegy for the Southern Drawl“These poems are haunted, full of grit, and down-home.”—Tomas Morín, Guggenheim Fellow...
Literary Guild February meeting: Declaration of Love
Announcement    Monday, February 9, 2026
The Literary Guild invites you to the first meeting of the semester. Since February is the month of love, we invite you to share or bring your favorite romantic piece of literature or media. This could be a novel, a declaration from a novel, film, poem, stanza or your favorite love story. Come, meet our new executive board and be a part of a vibrant group. The meeting will take place Thursday, Feb. 12, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. in A&S, room 345.
Literary Guild February meeting: Declaration of Love
Event    Thursday, February 12, 2026
The Literary Guild invites you to the first meeting of the semester. Since February is the month of love, we invite you to share or bring your favorite romantic piece of literature or media. This could be a novel, a declaration from a novel, film, poem, stanza or your favorite love story. Come, meet our new executive board and be a part of a vibrant group. The meeting will take place Thursday, Feb. 12, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. in A&S, room 345.
Miller Oberman Reading and Conversation: GCSU's Creative Writing Program Visiting Writers Series 
Event    Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Event DescriptionThe Georgia College & State University Creative Writing Program welcomes Miller Oberman, MFA ('07), for a public reading and conversation as part of the Visiting Writers Series. Oberman will read from Impossible Things (Duke University Press, 2024), alongside new and recent work.He will be joined by MFA student poet Christina Faber for an evening of poetry, followed by a Q&A and book signing.Oberman is the author of Impossible Things and The Unstill Ones (Princeton...
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Alumna receives prestigious international scholarship while earning her doctorate
News Story    Wednesday, January 7, 2026
By Margaret Schell Nayoung Seo Bishoff (’23) was recently awarded the Korean Honor Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement and leadership development qualities by South Korean Ambassador Dr. Kang Kyung-wha of the Republic of Korea in the United States. Bishoff is a doctoral student at George Washington University; she expects to complete her Ph.D. in 2028. Bishoff first came to Georgia College & State University as an undergraduate exchange student from Pukyong National University...
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