Mahogany L. Browne Brings Her Creative Force to OCB

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

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Author and Musician Charlie Parr Performs Free Show March 29

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

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Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing to Celebrate Three Authors

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.

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Author Spotlight: Khalisa Rae

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

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