Awards
The University of Georgia Press is proud of the recognition that is regularly bestowed on our authors and books by a wide range of scholarly, literary, and regional organizations. Listed below are some of the most recent award winners and finalists. See individual book pages for more awards information.
Bouquet of Hungers
Kyle Dargan
2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Poetry / Hurston/Wright Foundation
Can't I Love What I Criticize?
The Masculine and Morrison
Susan Neal Mayberry
2009 Winner, Outstanding Book Award / Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender
Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory
Owen J. Dwyer and Derek H. Alderman
(Published by the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago)
2009 Globe Book Award / Association of American Geographers
Crossing to Sunlight Revisited
Paul Zimmer
2008 Ohioana Book Award, Poetry / Ohioana Library Association
Diehard Rebels
The Confederate Culture of Invincibility
Jason Philips
2008 Finalist, Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship / George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War
Field Folly Snow
Cecil Parks
Finalist, Norma Faber First Book Award / Poetry Society of America
A Gathering of Matter, A Matter of Gathering
Dawn Lundy Martin
2007 Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Poetry
Georgia’s Frontier Women
Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony
Ben Marsh
2008 Malcolm Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award / Georgia Historical Society
Grounded Globalism
How the U.S. South Embraces the World
James L. Peacock
2009 James Mooney Prize / Southern Anthropological Society
Jospeph Hopkins Twichell
Steve Courtney
2009 Connecticut Book Award, Biography or Memoir / Connecticut Center for the Book
A Natural Sense of Wonder
Connecting Kids with Nature through the Seasons
Rick Van Noy
Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment / Southern Environmental Law Center
New Orleans after the Promises
Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society
Kent Germany
2008 Finalist, Liberty Legacy Award / Organization of American Historians
On Harper's Trail
Roland McMillan Harper, Pioneering Botanist of the Southern Coastal Plain
Elizabeth Shores
Finalist, Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment / Southern Environmental Law Center
The Pale of Settlement
Margot Singer
2008 Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers / Shenandoah and Washington and Lee University
2008 Reform Judaism Prize for Fiction / Union for Reform Judaism
2008 Finalist, John Gardner Fiction Book Award / Binghamton Center for Writers-State University of New York
2008 Honorable Mention, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award / PEN New England
Peachtree Creek
A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed
David R. Kaufman
2008 Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment / Southern Environmental Law Center
Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance
The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959
James R. Sweeney, ed.
Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography for 2008 / Virginia Historical Society
Salvinia Molesta
Victoria Chang
Finalist, California Book Award / The Commonwealth Club
The Theory of Light and Matter
Andrew Porter
2008 Finalist, Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction / Texas Institute of Letters
2009 Longlist, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award/ Munster Literature Centre
Finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize / The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College
ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards, Gold for Short Fiction / ForeWord Magazine
Walking the Wrack Line
On Tidal Shifts and What Remains
Barbara Hurd
Honorable Mention, ASLE Creative Book Award/ The Association for Study of Literature and the Environment