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In a panel curated by William Boyle, friends of the author and masters in crime fiction Eli Cranor (Ozark Dogs), Megan Abbott (The Turnout), and S.A. Cosby (Razorblade Tears) will join Oxford’s own Ace Atkins, at the Lafayette County Courthouse, located on the Oxford Square, at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 31. Then, follow the authors … Continued

Mahogany L. Browne is a creative force to be reckoned with, and we are honored to have her supreme talent among the authors visiting the Twenty-Ninth Oxford Conference for the Book. She has authored Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice, Chlorine Sky, the young adult novel Vinyl Moon, and most recently, Chrome Valley (Liveright, 2023). Browne is the executive … Continued

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.