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This year’s Oxford Conference for the Book includes the awards ceremonies for the Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing, which came to the University of Mississippi in 2020 to be administered by the Department of Writing and Rhetoric in honor of Willie Morris, a UM writer-in-residence and instructor from 1980 to 1991. Awards are given … Continued

Much like everything else in 2020, the Oxford Conference for the Book, the longest-running event produced by the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture, had to be canceled because of COVID-19 a mere two weeks before the event. This year won’t exactly be business as usual, either, but a slate of … Continued

Here is Laure-Anne Bosselaar, who was originally scheduled at this year’s conference, reading her poem “Chanel #5.”   Born in 1943, Laure-Anne Bosselaar grew up in Belgium and moved to the United States in 1987. She is the author of These Many Rooms (Four Way Books, 2019), A New Hunger (Ausable Press, 2007), Small Gods of … Continued

Poets have always been a part of the Oxford Conference for the Book, especially this year, since the first day of the conference would have coincided with the first day of National Poetry Month. Here we have Hanif Abdurraqib reading one of his poems, along with an interview in Cultured magazine from January. Abdurraqib was … Continued

Continuing our virtual Oxford Conference for the Book today is Tommy Tomlinson, who was originally scheduled to read from his memoir “The Elephant in the Room” on Friday, April 3. Instead, you can read about his struggles with his weight and what made him reassess his life in this Rolling Stone article from January 2019. … Continued