| The University of Georgia Press is the oldest and largest publishing house in the state and one of the largest publishing houses in the South. The Press publishes 70-80 titles each year, in a range of academic disciplines as well as books of interest to the general reader, and has nearly a thousand titles in print. Since its founding in 1938, the primary mission of the University of Georgia Press has been to support and enhance the University’s place as a major research institution by publishing outstanding works of scholarship and literature by scholars and writers throughout the world as well as the University’s own faculty. As the publishing program of the Press has evolved, this mission has taken on three distinct dimensions: - Works of scholarship. The Press is committed to publishing important new scholarship in the following subject areas: American and Southern history and literature, African American studies, civil rights history, legal history, Civil War studies, Native American studies, folklore and material culture, women's studies, and environmental studies.
- Regional books. The Press has a long history of publishing books about the state and region for general readers. Our regional publishing program includes architectural guides, state histories, field guides to the flora and fauna of the region, biographies, editions of diaries and letters, outdoor guides, and the work of some of the state's most accomplished artists, photographers, poets, and fiction writers.
- Creative and literary works. This area of the list includes books published in conjunction with the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the VQR Poetry Series, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
As part of its literary publishing program the Press has successfully published original novels and works by such well-known writers as Rick Bass, Erskine Caldwell, Terry Kay, Jim Kilgo, Barry Lopez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Mary Hood, Harry Crews, Tom Wicker, Calvin Trillin, Roy Blount, Jr., Eugene Genovese, Rebecca Solnit, Catherine Clinton, and others.In the past decade a number of books published by the Press have gone on to win major literary prizes including the Pen/Hemingway Foundation Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the American Academy of Poets Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America First Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Awards for Fiction and Poetry. Since 2004, we have been recognized with such awards as: - Annibel Jenkins Prize, Co-winner (American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies)
- Book of the Year Award (Appalachian Writer’s Association)
- Book of the Year Award, Nonfiction Finalist (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance)
- Choice Outstanding Academic Book (Choice Magazine)
- George C. Rogers Award (South Carolina Historical Society)
- George Freedley Memorial Award, Finalist (Theatre Library Association)
- Gustavus Myers Award, Honorable Mention (Gustavus Myers Program for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America)
- James I. Robertson Prize (Robert E. Lee Civil War Library and Research Center)
- Jefferson Davis Award (Museum of the Confederacy)
- John Burroughs Medal (John Burroughs Association and the American Museum of Natural History)
- Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Finalist (Academy of American Poets)
- Lilla Hawes Award (Georgia Historical Society)
- Minnesota Book Awards, Finalist (Minnesota Council for the Humanities)
- National Mujer Award (National Hispana Leadership Institute)
- National Outdoor Book Award, Nature Guidebook Category (National Outdoor Book Awards)
- Notable Book in Education (American School Board Journal)
- Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, Honorable Mention (George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War)
- Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award (Southern Environmental Law Center)
- Ragan Old North State Award (North Carolina Literary and Historical Association)
- San Diego Book Awards, Poetry Anthology (San Diego Book Awards Association)
- Southern Book Award, Finalist (Southern Book Critics Circle)
- Ten Best Biographies (Amazon.com)
- Tennessee History Book Award (Tennessee Library Association)
- Top 10 African American Books, Nonfiction (Booklist Magazine)
- Top 10 Exceptional Books from University Presses (Foreword Magazine)
- Washington State Book Awards, Finalist (Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library)
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