2006: Shelby Foote

Registration begins

Conference Attendees

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Exhibitions; Light lunch

Ward Emling, Mississippi Film Office
Mississippi Hall of Writers
University of Mississippi. Libraries

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Welcome

Richard Howorth, Mayor of Oxford

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Shelby Foote: His Work and Legacy

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Ellen Douglas
Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Remembering Shelby Foote

Richard Howorth, Mayor of Oxford
Michael McDonnell, West Union Corporation
William Pearson
William Reed

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Dinner, Meet the Speakers (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Isom Place

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Open Mike: Poetry and Fiction Jam

David Galef, University of Mississippi

Bouré (Oxford, MS)

9:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Welcome

Carolyn Ellis Staton, University of Mississippi

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Literature for Young Readers 1: Readings and Remarks

Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, University of Mississippi
T. A. Barron

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Literature for Young Readers 2: Readings and Remarks

Barbara Lowe, Oxford High School
Sharon M. Draper

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow

Elaine H. Scott, Reading is Fundamental, Inc.
Claiborne Barksdale, University of Mississippi
Sarah Combs, Book Wholesalers Inc. (BWI)
Cindy Dach, Changing Hands Bookstore (Tempe, AZ)
Pamela Pridgen, Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Readings and Remarks

Jamie Kornegay, Turnrow Book Co. (Greenwood, MS)
Tad Floridis, Cannongate Books
Starling Lawrence, W. W. Norton
James Meek, The Guardian

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Readings and Remarks

Ethel Young-Minor, University of Mississippi
Brian Keith Jackson
Tyehimba Jess, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Olympia Vernon

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Readings and Remarks

David Galef, University of Mississippi
Jack Pendarvis
George Saunders, Syracuse University

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Poetry: Readings and Remarks

Beth Ann Fennelly, University of Mississippi
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, State University of New York, Fredonia
Aleda Shirley, Millsaps College

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Country Dinner (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Taylor Grocery (Taylor, MS)

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Writing About Politics

Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi
James Gill, Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
Trent Lott, United States. Senate.
Thomas Oliphant, Boston Globe

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Finding a Voice/Reaching an Audience

Barry Hannah, University of Mississippi
T. A. Barron
Nickole Brown, Sarabande Books, Inc.
Alex Glass
Sarah Gorham, Sarabande Books, Inc.
Starling Lawrence, W. W. Norton

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Writing About Art and Artists

William Dunlap
Patti Carr Black
Mary Lynn Kotz, ARTnews
Annalyn Swan, ASAP Media

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Readings and Remarks

Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi
Michael Knight, University of Mississippi
Lewis Nordan
Natasha Trethewey, Duke University; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Writing Literary Lives

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Larry L. King, Princeton University
Suzanne Marrs, Millsaps College
Darlene Harbour Unrue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Book Signing

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM