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We’re so looking forward to having Jason Mott, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction (Hell of a Book), and Robert Jones Jr. (The Prophets), a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, here for the Oxford Conference for the Book. Their session is on Thursday, March 31, at 2:30 in the Overby … Continued

The Oxford Conference for the Book returns to Oxford and the University of Mississippi March 30-April 1 as an in-person event. Conference sessions will be held on the UM campus and in downtown Oxford. “I’m so pleased to hold this conference in person this year,” said Jimmy Thomas, conference director. “We’ve put together an amazing … Continued

Imani Perry is the keynote speaker for the Oxford Conference for the Book this year. Her session is at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 30 in Nutt Auditorium and is free and open to the public. She will sign books after the talk next door at Memory House. She is featured in this week’s article in … Continued

The Oxford Conference for the Book is returning to Oxford and the University of Mississippi campus on March 30, 31, and April 1, 2022, as an in-person event, with special partnerships with the Willie Morris Awards in Southern Writing and the National Book Foundation, the administrators of the National Book Awards. Confirmed participants include Imani … Continued

This year the Oxford Conference for the Book pays tribute to Randall Kenan, a longtime Oxford Conference for the Book participant and John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence in 1997–98. Kenan passed away in August 2020, only days before his latest story collection If I Had Two Wings was published. In this conference session, … Continued