2001: Richard Wright

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
Brooks Haxton, Syracuse University
Judith Hottensen, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Dave Smith, Louisiana State University

Education Auditorium

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Finding a Voice/Reaching an Audience

Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi
Neal Coonerty, American Booksellers Association
William Gay
Amy Williams, Gernert Company
Webster Younce, Arcade Publishing

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Southern Review: Past and Present

Joseph Urgo, University of Mississippi
Michael Griffith, Louisiana State University Press
Dave Smith, Louisiana State University
Webster Younce, Arcade Publishing
Hazel Rowley, Harvard University

Education Auditorium

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Richard Wright: The Enduring Challenge of His Legacy

Jerry W. Ward Jr., Tougaloo College
Geneviève Fabre, Université de Paris VII
Michel Fabre, Université de Paris III
Paul Oliver

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Poetry: Readings and Remarks

Michael P. Dean, University of Mississippi
Nikky Finney, University of Kentucky
Claude Wilkinson, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Readings

Brooks Haxton, Syracuse University
Jerry W. Ward Jr., Tougaloo College

Education Auditorium

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Readings and Remarks

Michael Griffth, Louisiana State University Press
Jayne Anne Phillips, Brandeis University
Dave Smith, Louisiana State University

Education Auditorium

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Cocktail Party (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Writing Sexuality in and of the South

Ethel Young-Minor, University of Mississippi
Jeffrey Renard Allen, City University of New York. Queens College
Lasana Kazembe, Ibis Publishing
Reginald Martin, University of Memphis

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Writing our Southern Mothers

Kathryn McKee, University of Mississippi
Rosemary Daniell
Patricia Foster, University of Iowa
Jayne Anne Phillips, Brandeis University

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Our Mothers Before Us: A Link to History

Robert C. Khayat, University of Mississippi
Deborah Barker, University of Mississippi
Alysha E. Black, National Archives
Michael L. Gillette, National Archives
Mary Lynn Kotz, ARTnews
Lucinda D. Robb, The Teaching Company
C. Thompson Wacaster, Phil Hardin Foundation

Education Auditorium

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow

Elaine H. Scott, Arkansas Board of Education
Claiborne Barksdale, University of Mississippi
Kimberly Willis Holt

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Readings and Remarks

Jeffrey Renard Allen, City University of New York. Queens College
David Anthony Durham
Reginald Martin, University of Memphis

Education Auditorium

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Readings and Remarks

Richard Flanagan
William Gay
Cynthia Shearer, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Reading

Amy Tan

Education Auditorium

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Booksigning

Conference Attendees

Square Books (Oxford, MS)

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Grove Press 50th Anniversary Country Extravaganza (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Taylor, MS

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Continental Breakfast

Mississippi Hall of Writers

John Davis Williams Library

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Writing the Civil War

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Allen Ballard, State University of New York, Albany
David Blight, Amherst College
Catherine Clinton, The Citadel

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Writing Race and Politics in the South

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Jesse James Holland Jr., Associated Press
Bill Minor

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Memory House

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Grove Press: Its First Half Century

Morgan Entrekin, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Judith Hottensen, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Readings and Remarks

Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi
Jim Harrison
Stewart O'Nan

Education Auditorium

2:30 PM - 4:30 PM