1998: Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies (musical interpretation)

Finding a Voice/Reaching an Audience

Randall Kenan, University of Mississippi
Larry Brown
Fredric Koeppel, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Alane Mason, University of Mississippi

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch (On Your Own)

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Writing the Wilderness: From Meriwether Lewis to William Bartram and Back

Thomas P. Slaughter, Rutgers University

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Bookmaking the the 21st Century: Technology, Creativity, and the Economics of Publishing

Bea Jackson, Ivy Pages
Wylene Dunbar
Michael Farmer, Harcourt Brace & Company
Claire Bradley Ong, Alfred P. Knopf

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Cocktail Buffet

Conference Attendees

City Grocery (Oxford, MS)

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Readings/Remarks

Rick Bragg
Daniel Woodrell

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

It Really Was My Idea: Spouses of Writers Speak Out

Wylene Dunbar
Moira Ambrose
Mary Annie Brown
Susan Hannah

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Submitting Manuscripts/Working with an Editor

Randall Kenan, University of Mississippi
Jere Hoar, University of Mississippi
Alane Mason, University of Mississippi
Daniel Woodrell, University of Mississippi

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Readers in the Year 2004

Elaine H. Scott, Arkansas Board of Education
Scott Cook
Jack Gantos
Barbara Bonds Thomas, Toad Hall (Austin, TX)
Nancy Van Laan

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Booksigning

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Wieners and Rebels: Writing from the Trenches of Southern Culture

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Stephen E. Ambrose
Tony Horowitz
Jerry E. Strahan

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Skeletons in the Closet: Writing About Family

Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi
Rick Bragg
Elizabeth Spencer
Daniel Woodrell

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Greetings

Robert C. Khayat, University of Mississippi

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

8:00 PM - 8:15 PM

Readings

Stephen E. Ambrose
Elizabeth Spencer

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

8:15 PM - 10:00 PM

Continental Breakfast

Conference Attendees

Harrison Room, J. D. Williams Library

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Presidential Scandal, the Press, and Print

Jere Hoar, University of Mississippi
John F. Marszalek, Mississippi State University
Rick Bragg
Tony Horwitz

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Brunch

Conference Attendees

Downtown Grill (Oxford, MS)

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Making a Living Writing Autobiographical Fiction and Getting Away with Telling Your Family Secrets

Jack Gantos

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Fair and Tender Ladies: A Musical Interpretation of Lee Smith's Novel

Tommy Goldsmith, Tennessean (Nashville, TN)
Tom House
Karren Pell, Auburn University, Montgomery

Baxter Room, J. D. Williams Library

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM