Join us for readings by Kristen Gleason and Reginald McKnight in celebration of the publication of The Wallet and Other Thefts. Free and open to the public.

Kristen Gleason is the author of the short story collection The Wallet and Other Thefts. Her fiction appears in BOMB, McSweeney’s, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She has been a Writing Fellow at A Public Space and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to northern Norway. Recently, she received The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing.

Reginald McKnight is a short story writer and novelist. He has won the O. Henry Award, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the Whiting Award, among others. He is the author of He Sleeps, Moustapha’s Eclipse, I Get on the Bus, The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, and White Boys.

Join Gallery Director Rachel Waldrop for a tour of Athenaeum exhibitions Erin Johnson: The Measure Is Something Else and Megan Ledbetter: The Field (2022-2026).

The Georgia Review and the Athenaeum present a reading with Julia Elliott and Joshua Garcia at the Athenaeum. The reading will be followed by a book sale and signing. Free and open to the public. The event is supported by the UGA English Department, the UGA Special Collections Library, and the UGA Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies.

Julia Elliott is the author of the story collection Hellions, winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and a Southern Book Prize finalist. Her collection The Wilds, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, was chosen by Kirkus, BuzzFeed, Book Riot, and Electric Literature as one of the Best Books of 2014. She also published the novel The New and Improved Romie Futch. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, Reactor, Granta, and The New York Times. She has won a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and two Pushcart Prizes, and her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories. She teaches English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina and lives in Columbia with her husband, daughter, and six hens.

Joshua Garcia is the author of Pentimento (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award. His poems have appeared in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University, an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project, and support from the Hawthornden Foundation. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. 

Join us in celebrating the opening of Christy Bush: Continuum. Free and open to the public.

Join Gallery Director Rachel Waldrop for a tour of Athenaeum exhibitions Erin Johnson: The Measure Is Something Else and Christy Bush: Continuum.

In conjunction with Erin Johnson: The Measure Is Something Else and to further disseminate Johnson’s work, the Athenaeum will host a public symposium to close the exhibition, featuring a Visiting Artist keynote lecture with the artist and debut of Johnson’s new work. Symposium details TBA

Over the course of the exhibition, Johnson will develop a new artwork and associated programming in collaboration with multiple University of Georgia units filmed on Georgia’s Ossabaw Island with the Ossabaw Island Artist in Residence Program. This new commission will further position the exhibition as a pedagogical site—an architecture in itself—through which power, knowledge, and space are made visible and contestable.