

Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach, and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys. Pulitzer Prize winners and never-before-published writers are equals during our manuscript evaluation process, whose goal is to identify and print works that promise to be, in the famous words of Ezra Pound, "news that stays news." Through its commitment to excellence, The Georgia Review has won numerous awards and earned an international reputation, and selections from its pages are regularly reprinted in the nation’s most prestigious prize anthologies. In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Never stuffy and never shallow, The Georgia Review seeks a broad audience of intellectually open and curious readers-and strives to give those readers rich content that invites and sustains repeated attention and consideration.

Each quarterly issue offers a diverse, thoughtfully orchestrated gathering of short stories, general-interest essays, poems, reviews, and visual art. Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever since, The Georgia Review is one of America’s most highly regarded journals of arts and letters. After reading each chapter, stop and complete the worksheets for that chapter.
