Short answers, pulled from the story.
The University of Georgia Press was founded in 1938 as a publishing division of the University of Georgia, located on the North Campus in Athens, Georgia. It joined the Association of University Presses in 1940.
The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is a literary prize established in 1983 by Charles East, then the editor-in-chief of the University of Georgia Press. It was created to recognize gifted young writers and remains a central part of the press's creative writing program.
The University of Georgia Press publishes 80-85 new books per year and has more than 1,500 titles in print. It employs 24 full-time publishing professionals.
Brown Thrasher Books is an imprint of the University of Georgia Press that focuses on reprints of Georgia classics. It keeps significant regional titles in circulation for new generations of readers.
In 1999, the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry series prize was awarded to Peter M. Sacks, whose judge was Jorie Graham, a colleague at Harvard University who later married him. The conflict of interest was only revealed after the website Foetry.com obtained judges' names via the Open Records Act, leading series editor Bin Ramke to resign.
On the 27th of October 2005, the University of Georgia Press rescinded Brad Vice's Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and recalled copies of his collection The Bear Bryant Funeral Train. Vice was accused of plagiarizing sections of a story from Carl Carmer's 1934 book Stars Fell on Alabama, though Vice and others disputed the charge.