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04/01/2024

Processing loss is a vital part of my work. I am the last one left of my immediate family. Daily I face the absence of a localized historical infrastructure. I have no point of comparison nor verification of familiar memories. . . .Through humor, sober self-reflection, and the constant digestion of content, I question the fickle (terminally ill) landscape known as social identity. These systematic investigations point to the complication of our many shared lives and deaths. Everything we deal with on earth is universal. Race is a construct. Satire is a vehicle. And grief just is.

—Antonio Darden on his art feature JUST IS. Explore the full portfolio here: https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/just-is/

Images © 2023 Antonio Darden.

INTRODUCTION This might be apocryphal: “laughter is the death of an emotion,” I remember reading in Freud, in translation, a riff on Friedrich Nietzsche’s statement that “Wit is the epitaph of an emotion,” whether the phrase is Freud’s or simply mine. These words come to mind when lookin...

28/12/2023

Estella Deng wrapped herself in a sea-green scarf and began to doodle on the page of bullet points before her—the beginnings of a royal blue star. She detailed its countless rays, luminosities. Because that’s what you are, her inner voice chimed as a reminder of all reminders. The brightest of stars—shine.

—William Pei Shih, "Taken" 🌟 Read the full story below!

Estella Deng wrapped herself in a sea-green scarf and began to doodle on the page of bullet points before her—the beginnings of a royal blue star. She detailed its countless rays, luminosities. Because that’s what you are, her inner voice chimed as a reminder of all reminders. The brightest of s...

21/12/2023

—Ariana Benson, "Anti-Elegy for the Trees"

👀💛 From our new winter issue. Read the full poem at https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/epithalamion-in-the-wake-elders-speak-of-the-windchimes-anti-elegy-for-the-trees/

18/12/2023

The Georgia Review’s Winter 2023 issue is now available, with new writing from Ariana Benson, Alice Friman, Will Pei Shih, and many more, as well as newly translated work by Han D**g, Won Koi Tet, and Édouard Glissant. The issue also presents the winner and featured finalists of this year’s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize and a folio of art by Antonio Darden.

Explore the full table of contents online, and get your copy today! And with our holiday sale, all subscriptions are 25% off—one year for only $30. Visit The Georgia Review shop and use the code GC2023. For 30% off books, back issues, and merchandise, use 30-OFF. Gift The Georgia Review to the readers you love!

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11/12/2023

Can you tell we're excited for AWP Bookfair 2024? Stop by our booth for limited edition T-shirts!

16/11/2023

“We’re making immersive theater,” he went on. “. . . A place where everything that so desperately needs to be said hinges on your absolute silence.”

Someone said that sounded contradictory, and he agreed, “Absolutely, absolutely."

—Nadia Davids, "Bridling" 🎭 Read the full story below.

He doesn’t lock the mask every rehearsal. There are some days I say, I can’t, not today, not for all those hours. Attached to the mask is a rope that sways down my back and dangling from the rope is a bell that the stage manager (the “SM,” we call her) will ring every ten

06/11/2023

"In following Ro’s growing pains, we come away with a clearer, more optimistic perspective of our sense of community and place in the world."
—Nancy Nguyen on Gina Chung's debut novel SEA CHANGE.

🐙🪸 Read the full review below.

Gina Chung’s debut novel, Sea Change, intimately follows first-person narrator Ro, who is stricken by grief. Ro works an entry-level job at an aquarium, despite freshly entering her thirties. She is adrift: estranged from her mother, their relationship is only made more distant by their countless ...

31/10/2023

"Butler's central argument is, simply, that the Method is central: central to American theater and film, central to the Twentieth Century."

Read Shonni Enelow's full review of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler at the link below! 🎭

In Mikhail Bulgakov’s unfinished satire Black Snow, translated into English by Michael Glenny in 2005, a harried writer has the misfortune of having one of his novels picked up by the Independent Theatre, a legendary and mysterious Moscow institution run by two choleric impresarios, including the ...

26/10/2023

"It’s never quite clear in the poem who stands on which
side of the glass. Which one of them is meant to be the shark."

From "A Dead Shark Isn't Art" by torrin a. greathouse. Read the full poem below. 🦈

A Dead Shark Isn’t Art   In 1991, English conceptual artist Damien Hirst created the controversial art piece The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. A […]

25/10/2023

Have you ever heard of dance wrecking? Our friends at The Georgia Review are presenting a thought-provoking performance later this month. Learn more about the free event, where you can come early and watch the choreography in action:
https://www.libs.uga.edu/news/dance-wrecking-performance-uga-explores-issues-racial-justice
And thanks to our partners at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Department of Dance and UGA Arts Collaborative!
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19/10/2023

In an unusual print-only feature, Guncotton (Radiclani Clytus, Terrance Hayes, Virginia Jackson, Arun Kale, Alisha Sett, and Rajesh Vora) visually renders the networks of exploitation that have bound the American South and colonial India through the cotton trade, giving us a way to consider the cumulative and far-reaching damage that the “empire of cotton,” as historian Sven Beckert calls it, has enacted on cultures around the world.

Check out more of our Fall '23 issue here: https://thegeorgiareview.com/shop/issues/fall-2023/

28/09/2023

—Jae Nichelle, "Grownfolk Blues"

🔵 From our Fall '23 issue. Read the full poem at georgiareview.com

26/09/2023

The Georgia Review’s Fall 2023 issue is now available, with new writing from R. Zamora Linmark, torrin a. greathouse, Jane Delury, and many more, and newly translated poetry by Samira Negrouche and Krystyna Dąbrowska. Our print issue also includes a multimedia feature by the art collective Guncotton, exploring the cotton industry’s continuing exploitation of workers.

Explore the full table of contents online, and get your copy today!

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19/09/2023

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, revisit Raquel Gutiérrez's essay "Do Migrants Dream of Blue Barrels" from our our Spring 2020 issue.

"I am a passenger watching the scenery of the borderlands beyond the brink of madness."

I live in Tucson. People tell me they love the images they see on my various social media feeds of the mysterious, moonscape desert that surrounds. Many of the friends, acquaintances, […]

18/09/2023

We are thrilled to announce that Brandon Som's TRIPAS is on the longlist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry! 🎉 Read Som's incredible work and support our imprint by picking up a copy:

With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which ...

18/09/2023

Huge congrats to translator Lucy Scott and Two Lines Press on being nominated for the National Back Award! 💫 Read Scott’s translation of Anton de Kom in The Georgia Review today! 🔗

PROLOGUE Anton de Kom (1898–1945) was a Surinamese political activist and author of the 1934 book We Slaves of Suriname, the first decolonial account of the nation’s history. He lived […]

11/09/2023

"When Ronnie's new friend Helena kisses her, they're on the bike path after church. Last night's snow sugars the grass, a skin of glitter that melts when Ronnie breathes on it."

—Lydia Conklin, "Truffle Pig" in our Summer '23 issue! Get your copy today.

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01/09/2023

"The poet in me has always been a wandering loner in search of epiphanies, big and small, even today. Revisiting and translating my poetry from that time allowed me to reconnect with the wandering self that I once was and perhaps still am"—Fang Xin in conversation with David Roderick. 💫 Full interview below!

Fang Xin 方莘 was born in Chengdu, China, in 1939. Ten years later he settled with his family in Taipei, Taiwan. As a teenager he joined an established group of […]

28/08/2023

The Georgia Review congratulates Xinyue Huang, who was selected by judge Hanif Abdurraqib as the winner of the eleventh annual Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Huang will receive $1,500 for her poem “Warm Box 暖箱.”

Explaining his choice, Abdurraqib praised the poem’s “warm and inviting” imagery and wrote that “Reading this poem felt like having a comfortable home built around you, to say nothing of its exit, an ending line that is stunning, heartbreaking, eternally memorable.”

The Georgia Review will host Huang and Abdurraqib for a reading in April 2024.

15/08/2023

We are OPEN! Every submission is read with care and consideration by editors with years of experience. We love connecting with writers and can't wait to read your work. Submit today! 💕📚

The Georgia Review accepts submissions both online and by post. We do not accept submissions via email. Submissions are free for current subscribers to The Georgia Review.* Subscriptions and online submission fees ensure […]

07/08/2023

We're hiring! Apply to be our new Marketing and Outreach Manager. 💫 Full-time, benefits eligible, on-site. Learn more about the position below.

GR Hiring Marketing and Outreach Manager The Marketing and Outreach Manager is responsible for the development, implementation, and day-to-day operations of marketing, publicity, external communications, and outreach for The Georgia […]

03/08/2023

"All I saw were the broken red shells on the table, an army of crabs obliterated by us, and Mom’s new purse dangling on the chair next to her, its chain a fresh gold glimmer and the leather a calm, unbroken surface."

Read Brian Truong's inaugural Prose Prize winning essay "Fake Handbags" in the link below! 🦀 👜

On Lunar New Year, we dressed up and visited our Buddhist temple outside Dallas. Dad wore tight jeans, brown loafers, and a button-down shirt that had armani emblazoned on his […]

27/07/2023

"Maybe this is what membership feels like.

That’s what we thought. Mahogany walls, oversized desks, coffered ceilings, models of sloops on the shelves, and kisses for the chosen."

—L.J. Sysko, "The Inside Lane" 🏊‍♀️

When my swim coach, an elderly man with a Dean of Something or Other job sexually harassed me, I let it go. It wasn’t like he was really harassing harassing. […]

20/07/2023

Las Hermanas Iglesias is the collaborative team of Lisa and Janelle Iglesias, sisters born to Dominican and Norwegian immigrants in Queens, New York. The moniker anchors the artists’ identities within the contexts of feminism, teamwork, and multiplicity. Employing playful structures that respond to the community and geographical context of each project, Las Hermanas Iglesias creates artworks that disrupt borders, engage absurdity, tie the personal to larger cultural systems, and promote the benefits of working together.

Explore the full portfolio at georgiareview.com & in our Summer 2023 issue 🍍

Images © 2023 Las Hermanas Iglesias. Photos: Manny Alcalá, courtesy of Blanton Museum of Art.

14/07/2023

We were saddened to hear of Minnie Bruce Pratt's passing. What an honor it is to have her work in our pages. 🌕

"Outside in the night, a full moon is shining, and in the moon glow, a mockingbird is singing the cadences of all the birdsong it has ever heard."

23 February 1996   Outside in the night, a full moon is shining, and in the moon glow, a mockingbird is singing the cadences of all the birdsong it has […]

13/07/2023

"We need to talk about your job performance,” Harmony says after sitting Yumi down in her office during Yumi’s break.

“Why?” Yumi asks. She serves cream cheese sushi rolls to white customers at a restaurant that claims to be authentically Chinese; isn’t that performance in itself?

—Ernie Wang, "Mother, Marksman"

🍱 🎮 From our Summer '23 issue. Read the full story at georgiareview.com