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Stories can change the world, and the nation’s leading and emerging authors, poets, scholars and publishers will gather this spring for discussion of those stories at the annual Oxford Conference for the Book. The 32nd conference, organized by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, is set for March … Continued

Where do we draw the line between ourselves and our writing? Join National Book Award–honored authors Camonghne Felix (Build Yourself a Boat, 2019 Longlister; and most recently, Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom) and novelist Sarah Thankam Mathews (All This Could Be Different, 2022 Fiction Finalist)at 11:30 a.m. in the Baxter Room of … Continued

There are two questions a reader asks unconsciously when they enter a story, according to Steve Almond. Who do I care about, and what do they care about? The faster an author can answer those questions for the reader, the more emotionally attached the reader becomes to the story. Almond will give tips such as … Continued

Edda L. Fields-Black presents “Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid” at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 26 in the auditorium of the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. The book was awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in history and the 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. She will be in conversation with Robert Colby, assistant … Continued

It is a homecoming for Janisse Ray, the 2003 John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi, who gives the Oxford Conference for the Book’s keynote Ann J. Abadie Lecture at 6 p.m. March 25 in Nutt Auditorium. Ray, a naturalist from Georgia, brings powerful stories to life. Her classic environmental … Continued