Creative Writing Program News

UGA Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature LeAnne Howe

Professor LeAnne Howe to read at Native American Literary Festival 25th anniversary celebration

Native and indigenous writers converged on the University of Oklahoma campus 25 years ago to celebrate and showcase their works.

Gay Zoo Day by Mike McClelland

First Year Ph.D. Student Publishes Book

Ph.D. student Mike McClelland's first book, Gay Zoo Day, is forthcoming from Beautiful Dreamer Press.  The book's launch will be celebrated at Avid Bookshop (493 Prince Avenue) at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, September 1st.

Photo by Dr LeAnne Howe

Elephants, American Indians, and the Circus

My mother collected elephants, bronze, ceramic, silver, large and small urns shaped like elephants, and even a belt with the silver images of marching elephants.  After she died in 2003, my brother and I were going through her things and dividing the mementos that we each w

Dr Howe and others at the 2015 Colloquium on the Trans-Atlantic Choctaw/Irish Exchange at UGA

Dr LeAnne Howe Collaborates with Irish Poets

Dr LeAnne Howe is collaborating with Irish poets Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Padraig Kirwan on both scholarly and poetic projects that celebrate the Choctaw gift to the Irish in 1847 during the Irish Potato Famine, a pair of projects that honors, as Kirwan writes, this act of " empathy and dialogue…

Andrew Zawacki

Andrew Zawacki on Poetry Now

The Poetry Foundation's podcast, Poetry Now, features Andrew Zawacki's poem "Gratophoph," written for his daughter.

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