| Parent company | University of Georgia |
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| Founded | 1938 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Athens, Georgia |
| Distribution | Longleaf Services (US)[1][2] Codasat Canada (Canada) Eurospan Group (Europe)[3] |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
TheUniversity of Georgia Press orUGA Press is theuniversity press of theUniversity of Georgia, apublicland-grantresearch university with its main campus inAthens, Georgia. It is the oldest and largest publishing house inGeorgia and a member of theAssociation of University Presses.[4]
Domestic distribution for the press is currently provided by theUniversity of North Carolina Press's Longleaf Services.[2]
Founded in 1938, the UGA Press is a publishing division of theUniversity of Georgia and is located on the North Campus inAthens,Georgia, United States. It is the oldest and largest publishing house in the state of Georgia and one of the largest in the South. UGA Press has been a member of theAssociation of University Presses since 1940. TheUniversity of Georgia andMercer University are the only member presses in the state of Georgia.
The press employs 24 full-time publishing professionals, publishes 80–85 new books a year, and has more than 1500 titles in print.[5] The press is the only scholarly publisher within theUniversity System of Georgia serving all 31 institutions of higher education in the state.
In 2008 the press received the Governor's Award in the Humanities.[6]
The UGA Press publishes 70–80 titles each year of scholarly and academic, regional, and literary works with a focus onAmerican and Southern studies. It is also a leading publisher of African-American studies, civil rights history and environmental studies.
TheFlannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction was established by Charles East, then the editor-in-chief of the UGA Press, in 1983 to recognize gifted young writers. The press is also a long-time publisher of creative writing through books published in conjunction with the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs - Associated Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction, the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction, the National Poetry Series, and other literary competitions and series. The publishing program has been nationally recognized, and in recent years a number of books published by the press have won major awards.[5][7]
In conjunction with the Georgia Humanities Council and GALILEO, the UGA Press created theNew Georgia Encyclopedia, an online resource of Georgia history.
The UGA Press has successfully published original novels and works by writers such asRick Bass,Erskine Caldwell,Terry Kay,Barry Lopez,Judith Ortiz Cofer,Mary Hood,Harry Crews,Tom Wicker,Calvin Trillin,Roy Blount, Jr.,Eugene Genovese,Rebecca Solnit,David Carkeet (ofCampus Sexpot fame), andCatherine Clinton.
The press has been the subject of several scandals. Documents uncovered by the websiteFoetry.com revealed that the 1999 University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry series prize toPeter M. Sacks had been judged byJorie Graham, a colleague of Sacks atHarvard University who subsequently married him.[8][9][10] Throughout the course of the controversy, series editor Bin Ramke had insisted that judges of the contest be kept secret, and until Foetry.com obtained the names of judges via The Open Records Act, the conflict of interest had been undisclosed. As a result of the critical coverage, Ramke resigned from the editorship of the series. The University of Georgia Press now discloses the names of its poetry judges, who "are instructed to avoid conflicts of interest of all kinds".[11]
On October 27, 2005, the University of Georgia Press rescinded authorBrad Vice'sFlannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and recalled copies of his collectionTheBear Bryant Funeral Train. Vice was alleged to haveplagiarized sections of one story fromCarl Carmer's bookStars Fell on Alabama (1934), a charge that Vice and others dispute.[12][13]
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