The 30th Oxford Conference for the Book is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Square Books, the College of Liberal Arts, the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics, the UM Department of Writing and Rhetoric, the Department of English, Thacker Mountain Radio, the Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing, the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Southern Literary Festival, the Hawthornden Foundation, the Mississippi Humanities Council, the National Book Foundation, the UM Friends of the Library, Ajax Diner, and Southside Gallery.

Link to Conference Agenda

Martyr! / Kaveh Akbar

Muscadine / A. H. Jerriod Avant

The New Naturals / Gabriel Bump

Such Kindness / Andre Dubus III

Ghost Dogs / Andre Dubus III

Tales the Devil Told Me / Jen Fawkes

Glitter Road / January Gill O’Neil

We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For / Eddie Glaude

Those We Thought We Knew / David Joy

Chain-Gang All-Stars / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

When Trying to Return Home / Jennifer Maritza McCauley

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery / Joseph McGill Jr. and Herb Frazier

The Morningside / Téa Obreht

Promises of Gold (Promesas de Oro) / José Olivarez

Democracy Awakening / Heather Cox Richardson

Habitations / Sheila Sundar

Lost in the Long March / Michael X. Wang

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker / Damon Young