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Kicking off the conference, musician and debut author Charlie Parr comes to Proud Larry’s. Parr’s album Last of the Better Days Ahead represents “a time when we turn from gazing into the future to gazing back at the past, as if we’re adrift in the current, slowly turning around.” The companion novel marks his debut … Continued

Ike and Buddy Lee have their sons’ deaths in common—and the child their sons left behind— and as far as Ike is concerned, nothing else. Ike is a successful Black business owner still married  to his son’s mother. Buddy Lee, a lost white man, drinks too much, is a bit of a jokester, and  more … Continued

Each year, the Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing celebrates three authors who follow Morris’s legacy of writing about the complexities of the U.S. South. Winners in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, all published in 2022, will be announced soon and honored in a panel concluding the Oxford Conference for the Book.

Khalisa Rae is a poet, educator, journalist, and champion for Black queer narratives. Based in North Carolina, she is the co-founder of Poet.she (Greensboro), the Invisibility Project, and Athenian Press-QPOC writer’s collective, resource center, and bookstore in Wilmington. Her 2021 debut book of poetry, Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat (Red Hen Press), is a … Continued

We are thrilled to announce the authors and panelists of the Twenty-Ninth Oxford Conference for the Book! This year’s lineup represents twenty-five writers, four genres, and three countries in three jam-packed days of panels, live music, and events. The schedule is now available.