The 29th 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 Friends of the UM Library, the UM Lecture Series Fund, Lafayette County Literacy Council, Junior Auxiliary of Oxford, Visit Oxford, Proud Larry’s, Ajax Diner, Southside Gallery, Violet Valley Bookstore, Southwest Review and “Thacker Mountain Radio.” The conference is partially funded by the Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing, the National Book Foundation, the R&B Feder Charitable Foundation for the Beaux Arts and the Mississippi Humanities Council.

Link to Conference Agenda

Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino / Julián Herbert

The Turnout / Megan Abbott

Ten Planets / Yuri Herrera

None But the Righteous / Chantal James

Razorblade Tears / S. A. Cosby

Ozark Dogs / Eli Cranor

Registers of Illuminated Villages / Tarfia Faizullah

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies / Desha Philyaw

The Parted Earth / Anjali Enjeti

Last of the Better Days Ahead / Charlie Parr

South-Bound / Anjali Enjeti

Shoutin' in the Fire / Danté Stewart

If I Survive You / Jonathan Escoffery

Chrome Valley / Mahogany L. Browne

Family Album: Stories / Gabriela Alemán

Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat / Khalisa Rae

Unsilencing Slavery / Celia E. Naylor

Bang Bang Crash / Nic Brown

Afternoons with Harper Lee / Wayne Flynt

Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey / James Hoch

Behind the Big House / Jodi Skipper