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Founded in 1938, UGA Press currently publishes 60-70 new books a year, ranging from works of scholarship; creative and literary works; regional books; and digital projects.
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UGA baseball season is back in full swing today at 3pm!⚾ Kick off the '25-'26 season in spirit by checking out these featured baseball titles.

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February 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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UGA Press and @ugacwp.bsky.social invite you to an evening of poetry with Michael Walsh at the Athenaeum on Feb. 18!🎉

He will be signing and reading his book, A Season, the 2024 #GeorgiaPoetryPrize winner selected by Andrew Zawacki.

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February 12, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Calling all #AWP26 folks!
💫 What: Authors from UGA Press’ Crux Nonfiction Series: Ashley Anderson, Wes Jamison, Alison Kinney, & Yelizaveta Renfro
💫 Where: The Ivy in Baltimore, MD
💫 When: 3/5, 7pm
https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/the-university-of-georgia-press-crux-nonfiction-series/
February 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Estamos celebrando Bad Bunny y su actuación en la Super Bowl con nuestra “georgiariqueña” autora, Judith Ortiz Cofer, quien escribió sobre la “infinita variedad” de la experiencia puertorriqueña.
February 7, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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This #BlackHistoryMonth we’re highlighting UGA Press books that explore Black history across various subjects. Publishing scholarship that amplifies Black voices & histories is our mission.

Explore the stories shaping Black history by reading with us at ugapress.org!📚

#ReadBlackHistory
February 5, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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LISTEN: Guy Gugliotta, author of Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan, speaks to @npr.org's Throughline about Amos Akerman: a former Confederate soldier & slaveholder who became the U.S. government’s most zealous warrior against the KKK.

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The Man Who Took On The Klan : Throughline
In 1871, Ku Klux Klan violence in South Carolina got so bad that the governor sent a telegram to President Ulysses S. Grant warning that he was facing a state of war. Grant sent him Amos Akerman: a former Confederate soldier and slaveholder who became the U.S. government’s most zealous warrior against the KKK.Guests:Bernard Powers, director of the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston at the College of Charleston in South CarolinaGuy Gugliotta, author of Grant's Enforcer, Taking Down ...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Author Kathryn Beasley's recent presentation with the Alabama Department of Archives & History on her book The Proof is in the Dough explores how southern women applied their agricultural and domestic skills to improve their lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it91VZZuCxg
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February 2, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Happy Publication Day to all of these wonderful authors! 🎉✏️📖 Check out these New Releases on our website: ugapress.org

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February 1, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Join us in celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth! We've curated a special list of books written by Black authors that are 40% OFF during the month of February. Use code < 08BLKHIST26 > at checkout!

Find our unique book list here: https://www.ugapress.org/black-history-month-sale/

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February 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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We are thrilled to announce that Jazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays by Clifford Thompson has been selected as a Finalist for the 2026 PEN America /Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay! 🎉

Congrats, Clifford!
https://www.ugapress.org/9780820374642/jazz-june/

January 30, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Please join us in welcoming Raquel Thorne, our newest Acquisitions Editor! She is finishing up her Graduate Certificate in Publishing Management at George Washington University & holds a PhD in English Literature from University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Learn more here! https://loom.ly/VcffClU
January 22, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Join us in honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and dream this #MLKDay.

He was a leader who believed in the power of education, service, and collective action to transform society. Learn more about his life, vision, and motivations through our recommended books.

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January 19, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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We're feeling nostalgic looking back at UGApress in #2016... feels like it was just yesterday.🥹 Which of our titles do you remember reading in 2016?
January 16, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Archivist and writer Valerie J. Frey will give an author talk at the Atlanta History Center on1/28/26, 7pm.

Online ticket sales close at 5pm EST on the day of the event. Tickets will be available at the door prior to the event start time. https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/event/valerie-j-frey/
Valerie J. Frey
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January 5, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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So excited to see Clifford Thompson’s Jazz June included! Congrats to all nominees! 🎉
penamerica.bsky.social PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · Dec 18
Congratulations to all of the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards nominees! With a list that includes biography, poetry, translation, science writing, and more, this year’s longlist has something for every reader. Join us in celebrating this year’s nominees, see here: pen.org/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2026 Literary Awards, which will confer nearly $350,000 to writers and translators.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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#TBT to Acquisitions Editor Sarah Shermyen's visit to NYC for the Cave Canem 25th Anniversary Prize Reception on November 5, 2025! We're looking forward to publishing the 2025 award-winner in Fall 2026.
December 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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hyres376.bsky.social Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · Nov 25
My book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School, will be published soon. To learn more about it, see the attached flyer. To pre-order the book, go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037530... #histed #edhist #history @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools. ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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What if a beloved American classic was quietly shaped by a woman who hid her own brilliance? "Porgy’s Ghost" uncovers Dorothy Heyward’s forgotten influence and invites scholars to rethink the authorship they thought they knew.
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Promotional graphic for "Porgy's Ghost" by Harlan Greene from the University of Georgia Press. The book cover is to the left of the graphic, showing a photograph of Dorothy Heyward looking straight at the camera and her husband DuBose Heyward looking at her. A review quote from Kevin Sack is to the right of the cover, reading "an adventure in literary sleuthing worthy of Sherlock Holmes [...] Meticulously researched and exquisitely written". The logo for the University of Georgia Press is below this in a complementary rust colour which matches Heyward's dress on the cover.
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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There's never been a better time... 💙📚 #booksky

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December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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An amazing book from @ugapress.bsky.social listed as a stellar selection & one of the best books of 2025 by The Library Journal! Fascinating history topic! With a recipe section to boot!

Currently 50% with all their other books with code: 08THANKFUL
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The Proof Is in the Dough
The Proof Is in the Dough examines how rural white and African American women in Alabama and Florida used the Cooperative Extension Service’s home demonstr...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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For anyone thinking of gifting or otherwise buying my book 'Tracking the Golden Isles' (2020, @ugapress.bsky.social), I have good news: paperback edition is coming out March 2026 & preorder price is 50% off with code 08THANKFUL at checkout. What a deal! www.ugapress.org/978082037806... 🧪📚🐾 #Booksky
Tracking the Golden Isles
With this collection of essays, Anthony J. Martin invites us to investigate animal and human traces on the Georgia coast and the remarkable stories these tra...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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And don't sleep on A DESERT BETWEEN TWO SEAS by A. Muia (@ugapress.bsky.social)! #booksky
A Desert Between Two Seas by A. Muia The University of Georgia Press Short Story Collection. This Flannery O’Connor Award-winning collection opens in 1820 Baja California, where a mission priest bedecks a Virgin Mary statue with pearls his adopted Cohchimí son has plucked from the sea. The fate of the priest, the boy, and the last, resplendent pearl kicks off a century’s worth of interconnected stories that illuminate this fascinating setting and elemental human themes: love, jealousy, penitence, warfare, greed, fidelity, and faith. We meet a mescalera, a fierce, beautiful earless woman, and a miraculous donkey born from a mule. Muia writes incantatory prose that taps into folklore and history to deliver its surprises, joys, and wisdom. (Jenny Shank)
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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All the great titles @ugapress.bsky.social (including MINE!) are 50% off with code 08THANKFUL.
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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50% off THE MEDIUM PICTURE from @ugapress.bsky.social with code 08THANKFUL 💙📚 #booksky
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The Medium Picture
The ever-evolving ways that we interact with each other, our world, and ourselves through technology is a topic as worn as the devices we clutch and carry ev...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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@ugapress.bsky.social has a great holiday sale goin on. Lots of reads including from yours truly at 50%. code 08THANKFUL.

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Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal
Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal details the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led by undocumented workers in a complicated and pe...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM