1999: Eudora Welty

Welcome

Richard Howorth, Square Books (Oxford, MS)

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Submitting Manuscripts/Working One's Way Into Print

Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi
Kevin Baker
Tristan Egolf
David Gernert
Darcey Steinke

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Finding a Voice/Reaching an Audience

Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi
Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker
Peter Guralnick
Randal Kenan
Elizabeth Sifton, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Charting New Paths with Publishing

Stella Connell, Southeast Media and Literary Associates
John McLeod, Counterpoint Press
Don Stanford, Author's Interface

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Fractured Media and the Life of the Book

Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Living Near a Mountain: Welty, Faulkner, and the Mississippi Literary Landscape

Noel Polk, University of Southern Mississippi

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Poetry: Readings and Remarks

Andrew P. Mullins Jr., University of Mississippi
T. R. Hummer, Virginia Commonwealth University
Robert Morgan, Cornell University
James Seay

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Readings

Tristan Egolf
Jane Mullen
Stewart O'Nan

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Readings/Remarks

Julie Smith

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Writing, Race, and the South

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
Eddy Harris, Washington University, St. Louis
William Heath
Randall Kenan, University of Memphis
Henry Wiencek

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Writing Mysteries

Dan Williams, University of Southern Mississippi
John Armistead, Daily Journal (Tupelo, MS)
Tony Dunbar
Julie Smith

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Advice from the Sweet Potato Queen

Jill Connor Browne

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Booksigning

Conference Attendees

Square Books, Oxford MS

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Developing the Pictures from Life's Other Side: The Art of Writing Southern Music Literature

Michael Bertrand, University of Mississippi
Peter Guralnick
Cecilia Tichi, Vanderbilt University
Stephen Tucker
Bill Malone, Tulane University
Charles Wolfe, Middle Tennessee State University

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Conceiving the Heavens: Writing and Reading Science Fiction

Ron Nurnberg
Melissa Scott

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Readings

Carrie Brown, Sweet Briar College
Eddy Harris, Washington University, St. Louis
Robert Morgan, Cornell University

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Counterpoint: Publishing and the Book Business; Readings/Remarks

Wendell Berry
Patty Friedmann
Jack Shoemaker, Counterpoint Press

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Continental Breakfast

Mississippi Hall of Writers
University of Mississippi. John Davis Williams Library

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Writing Women Writers' Lives

Kathryn Burgess McKee, University of Mississippi
Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Mary Wheeling, Methodist College
Susan Millar Williams

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Writing Children's Books

Alice Faye Duncan

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow

Elaine H. Scott, Arkansas Board of Education
Janice W. Murray
John A. Pritchard, Mississippi Library Commission
Carol Hampton Rascoe
George F. Walker, Mississippi State Board of Community and Junior Colleges
Jennifer Westbrook, Phi Theta Kappa

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Roundtable Lunch for Educators, Librarians, and Literary Advocates (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Literally Inspired: Writing with Religion

Darcey Steinke
James Wilcox, Mississippi State University

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Fiction, History, and Truth; Readings/Remarks

Kevin Baker
Ellen Douglas
Stewart O'Nan

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM