We are saddened by the death of Virginia Spenser Carr, former member of the Creative Writing faculty and John B. and Elena Diaz Verson Amos Distinguished Professor in English Letters. Obituaries can found in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer and the New York Times.

Dr. Carr asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the fellowship created in her honor by her friends and former students. Those wishing to donate to the fellowship's endowment can do so online. To do so, select donation amount, then go to "Designation" dropdown menu; to give to the Virginia Spencer Carr Fellowship select "Other" from that drop down menu, and a box appears marked "Other"; type "Virginia Spencer Carr Fellowship" then select the "Add donation" box. You may also send a donation made out to GSU Foundation, with Virginia Spencer Carr Fellowship marked in the memo line. Checks should be mailed to: GSU Foundation, PO Box 3963, Atlanta, GA 30302

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY students enjoy the benefits of living and writing in Atlanta, an international city with a vibrant literary culture, and great art, music, and food. GSU's rigorous studio/academic program offers the BA with a concentration in creative writing, and the MA, MFA, and PhD in poetry or fiction.

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Our students come from all over—New York, Arkansas, Massachusetts, California, and even Georgia. Those students publish with St Martin's, Bloomsbury, Scribner, Carroll & Graf, Press 53, Future Tense, and Kensington Books, and in One Story, The New Republic, AGNI, American Short Fiction, BOMB, Gettysburg Review, Georgia Review, McSweeney's, New England Review, and the Yale Review. They win important prizes, fellowships, and contests, including the Poets & Writers Writers Exchange Contest, the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers, the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from The Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, the Georgia Author of the Year Award, and The World's Best Short Short Story Contest. [Visit the News page for details of their most recent publications and honors.]

Our faculty publish with Copper Canyon, Louisiana State University Press, MacAdam/Cage, Thomas Dunne, Ohio State University Press, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and University of Arkansas Press. Their poems and short fiction appear in New Stories from the South, Mississippi Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, Oxford American, and Poetry. Their awards include fellowships in fiction and poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference; the Whiting Writer's Award; the Poets' Prize; the Walt Whitman Award; The Grub Street Book Prize; and numerous other prizes, fellowships, and honors.

We offer a number of financial aid opportunities for graduate students, including the Paul Bowles Fellowship in Fiction and the Virginia Spencer Carr Fellowship in Prose. We also offer assistantships that allow the opportunity to teach writing to undergraduates. Georgia State is the home of the literary magazines Five Points and New South, and both of these journals provide students experience in literary editing and magazine production.

For more information, please visit the links to the left (some of which will take you to external sites), or contact:

Heather Russel
Assistant to the Directors of Creative Writing
Department of English
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3970
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3970
404.413.5800
404.413.5830 (fax)