University of Georgia Press

The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is a scholarly publishing house for the University System of Georgia. It is the oldest and largest publishing house in Georgia and a member of the Association of American University Presses.

Founded in 1938, the UGA Press is a publishing division of the University of Georgia and is located on the North Campus in Athens, 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 one of 130 full members of the prestigious Association of American University Presses since 1940. The University of Georgia and Mercer University are the only member presses in the state of Georgia.

The Press employs 24 full-time publishing professionals, the Press currently publishes 80-85 new books a year and has more than 1500 titles in print. The Press is the only scholarly publisher within the University 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.

The UGA Press publishes 70-80 titles each year of scholarly and academic, regional, and literary works with a focus on American and Southern studies. It is also a leading publisher of African-American studies, civil rights history and environmental studies.

The Flannery 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, 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.

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