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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.

Congratulations to two authors participating in the upcoming Oxford Conference for the Book (March 29-31). Both Jonathan Escoffery and Alejandro Varela are PEN America Literary Awards Longlisters. Jonathan Escoffery has made the longlist for both the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the 2023 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection for his book, … Continued

Among literature enthusiasts, it’s no secret that Oxford, Mississippi, has long been a magnet for writers. This spring, their numbers will multiply as more than thirty of the nation’s leading and emerging authors, poets, scholars, and artists gather for the annual Oxford Conference for the Book. Across the University of Mississippi campus and the city’s … Continued