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Three writers whose work reflect the spirit of the late Willie Morris are being honored as winners of this year’s Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing, housed at the University of Mississippi. “The Willie Morris Awards are an increasingly revered part of the Southern literary landscape,” said David Crews, an Oxford author and nonfiction judge … Continued

Encouraging children to read is important for all aspects of their lives. The Children’s Book Festival, part of the Oxford Conference for the Book, gives area children a book of their own and the opportunity to meet the author with their classmate on Friday, March 21 at the Ford Center. This year, the first-grade author … Continued

Fans of suspense writing will thrill at the “The Suspense of Writing” session set for 2:30 p.m. April 3 featuring Lilliam Rivera, author of Tiny Threads (Penguin Random House, 2024), Rachel Lyon, author of Fruit of the Dead (Simon and Schuster, 2024), and Zach Williams, author of Beautiful Days (Doubleday, 2024), in conversation with Melissa Ginsburg, … Continued

This spring, the already impressive number of talented writers in Oxford will multiply as more than 20 of the nation’s leading and emerging authors, poets, scholars and artists gather for the Oxford Conference for the Book. Three days of panels, discussions and events in Oxford and at the University of Mississippi transform William Faulkner’s hometown … Continued

The Thirty-First Oxford Conference for the Book is only a month away! The full schedule is up now, so mark your calendars for times and locations of all of the fantastic sessions. This year’s conference is dedicated to Ann Abadie, director emerita of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, who died last summer … Continued