English, Department of

Announcement    Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Congratulations to 2022 B.A. in English with a creative writing concentration graduate Olivia McClure! Her poem, "Something about Me," has been selected for inclusion in the Best New Poets, an annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers nationwide. The anthology was edited this year by poet Anders Carlson-Wee. Olivia in now an MFA student in poetry at University of Maryland on a full-graduate fellowship https://www.bestnewpoets.org/finalists.php.
Announcement    Monday, September 23, 2024
The Georgia and Carolinas College English Association Autumn Conference will be held at Georgia College & State University Oct. 4 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. in Kilpatrick Hall. This regional conference will welcome speakers from around the south to discuss diverse topics such as Edgar Allen Poe and Taylor Swift; rhetoric and the environment; Afrofuturism; and Paradise Lost. The conference will conclude with a tour of Andalusia.GCSU's own Dr. Jennifer Flaherty will be the keynote speaker.
Event    Friday, October 4, 2024
The Georgia and Carolinas College English Association Autumn Conference will be held at Georgia College & State University Oct. 4. This regional conference will welcome speakers from around the south to discuss diverse topics such as Edgar Allen Poe and Taylor Swift; rhetoric and the environment; Afrofuturism; and Paradise Lost. The conference will conclude with a tour of Andalusia.GCSU's own Dr. Jennifer Flaherty will be the keynote speaker.
Announcement    Monday, September 30, 2024
Georgia College & State University's MFA program was asked by the organizers of the Decatur Book Festival (with 60k in attendance) to participate in the Student Emerging Writers Stage event this year.https://decaturbookfestival.com/decatur-book-festival-2024/We are thrilled for the following GCSU's MFA students who will share their fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction:Ash Earnhardt, Noah Lorey, Richard Lassiter, Dan Johnston, Emma Garcia, Christina Faber, Michaela Reed, Nathanael...
Announcement    Tuesday, September 17, 2024
The International Literature Festival Berlin is one of the most important literature festivals in the world. Every year in September, the festival brings international authors together in Berlin for book premieres, readings and panel discussions. At the festival, literature enthusiasts have the extraordinary opportunity to gain curated insights into the fascinating world of literature - and have been doing so for over 20 years. Dr. Chika Unigwe, whose works have been translated into...
Announcement    Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Dr. Kerry James Evans, assistant professor of English, is named the Honorable Mention Winner of The Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry/University of Nebraska Press. He will be awarded $1,000 and his manuscript, Nine Persimmons, will be published in spring 2026.  Of Nine Persimmons, Judge Tomás Q. Morín said: “’I play it out measure by measure,’ writes Kerry James Evans. And those soulful measures are filled with a music that is unabashedly Southern. These poems are haunted, full of grit...
Announcement    Monday, August 26, 2024
Randall Bonser, a limited-term lecturer in English, spoke at the Digital Humanities 2024 Conference, “Reinvention and Responsibility” in Washington, D.C. as part of a panel on “Pedagogy and Generative AI.” Five instructors from the U.S. and Europe addressed a workshop audience interested in how a diverse section of college instructors are using AI as part of their curriculum. Professor Bonser outlined how he teaches students to use Gen AI as a collaborator, while helping his students...
Announcement    Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Lansing Community College’s Literary Podcast “Washington Square On-Air” interviewed Georgia College & State University's Department of English Senior Lecturer Jeffrey H. MacLachlan about the literary history of the Communist Bloc, including his original poem based on a Soviet advertisement for liquor.https://player.captivate.fm/episode/20e887e4-5274-49c9-8276-52b2ff18e0bb
Event    Wednesday, November 20, 2024
GCSU Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series: Visiting Writer and MFA alumna Denechia Powell-Ingabire, '22 Nov. 20 from 6:30 until 7:30 p.m.Pat Peterson Museum Education RoomDenechia “Neesha” Powell-Ingabire is a coastal Georgia-born-and-raised movement journalist, essayist and community and cultural organizer living in Atlanta/occupied Muscogee territory. She reports on the justice movements of the Black, queer and trans communities to which she belongs and writes essays...
Event    Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Visiting Writers and Georgia College & State University alumni Stephen Hundley joins Denechia "Neesha" Powell-Ingabire to present on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room. Stephen Hundley, '13, is the author of "The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First" (University of North Georgia Press, 2023) and "Bomb Island" (Hub City Press, 2024). His stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Cream City Review, The Greensboro Review and elsewhere. Hundley serves...