2000: Willie Morris

Welcome

Richard Howorth, Square Books (Oxford, MS)

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Submitting Manuscripts/Working One's Way Into Print

Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi
Janice Daugharty, Valdosta State University
William Gay
Jeffrey Lent
Rosa Shand, Converse College
Amy Williams, Gernert Agency

Education Auditorium

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Finding a Voice/Reaching an Audience

Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi
Karl Ackerman
Robert Bly
Robert Olen Butler, McNeese State University
Morgan Entrekin, Grove/Atlantic
Richard Flanagan

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Independent Publishing Today

Steve Yarbrough, University of Mississippi
Caitlin Hamilton, MacMurray & Beck
Greg Michalson, Missouri Review
Fred Ramey, MacMurray & Beck

Education Auditorium

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Homage to Willie Morris's South: Huck, Tom, and Willie

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Masaru Inoue, Ferris Women's College (Japan)
Joanne Pritchard Morris
David Sansing, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Poetry: Readings and Remarks

Michael P. Dean, University of Mississippi
Angela Ball, University of Southern Mississippi
Brooks Haxton, Syracuse University
Claude Wilkinson, LeMoyne-Owen College

Education Auditorium

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Readings

Karl Ackerman
William Gay
Jeffrey Lent
Rosa Shand, Converse College

Education Auditorium

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Readings/Remarks

Robert Bly

Education Auditorium

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Cocktail Party (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow

Elaine H. Scott, Arkansas State Board of Education
Richard A. Boyd, University of Mississippi
Alice Faye Duncan

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Socks on a Rooster: Politics in the Modern South

Curtis Wilke, Boston Globe
Greg Iles
Elizabeth Mitchell
William F. Winter

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Print Culture in the Early South

Dan Williams, University of Mississippi
David S. Shields, The Citadel

Education Auditorium

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch (On Your Own)

Conference Attendees

Education Auditorium

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Popular Music and Race

Michael Bertrand, University of Mississippi
W. T. Lhamon, Florida State University
James M. Salem, University of Alabama
David Sanjek, BMI Archives
Brian Ward, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Craig Werner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Readings/Remarks

Janice Daugharty, Valdosta State University
Connie May Fowler
Melinda Haynes
Janisse Ray

Education Auditorium

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Readings

Robert Olen Butler, McNeese State University
Nathan Englander
Richard Flanagan
Darcey Steinke

Education Auditorium

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Booksignings

Conference Attendees

Square Books (Oxford, MS)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Early Bird Gets the Worm Breakfast

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

Education Auditorium

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Southern Autobiography

Jay Watson, University of Mississippi
Rick Bragg
Constance W. Curry
Endesha Ida Mae Holland, University of Southern California
Lewis Nordan, University of Pittsburgh
Anthony Walton

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Communities: A Place for Literature

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Pete Daniel, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
Gay Gomez, McNeese State University
David Wharton, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Roundtable Lunch (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Memory House

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Readings/Remarks

Endesha Ida Mae Holland, University of Southern California
Anthony Walton
Steve Yarbrough, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Books and the Environment

Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi
John M. Barry
Connie May Fowler
Janisse Ray

Education Auditorium

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Out with a Bang

Lewis Nordan, University of Pittsburgh

Education Auditorium

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM