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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

Mark Your Calendars! The Thirty-First Oxford Conference for the Book will be held on April 2, 3, and 4, 2025!

Jennifer Maritza McCauley says “I can’t write without creating a soundtrack to my work. I love music playing in the background when I type and I love jigging and jumping and flapping my fingers to flailing sounds. Writing can be such a visceral experience; it fully inhabits me and music whisks me into a sort … Continued

“Race, class and gender collide in all the ways they do in the so-called real world. Gabriel Bump’s prose is fresh and frequently surprising. [The New Naturals] is funny, sad, sad-funny and funny-sad and just plain smart,” praises Percival Everett about Bump’s touching, timely novel exploring an attempt to found an underground utopia and the … Continued