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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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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