2012: Making and Creating Books

Special Session/Demonstration Session on Picture Book-Making: "Puzzled by Pink"

Sarah Frances Hardy

Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Opening Session/Lunch

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
David D. Hall
University of Mississippi Libraries

J. D. Williams Library

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Welcome

Daniel W. Jones, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Celebration of National Poetry Month

Beth Ann Fennelly, University of Mississippi
Nicole Cooley, City University of New York. Queens College
Brad Richard

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Writers' Conversation

Ivo Kamps, University of Mississippi
Richard Ford
Josh Weil, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Writing Black Freedom Movements

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Randal Jelks, University of Kansas
Allen Tullos, Emory University
Michael Thomas, Hunter College

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees

Off Square Books

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Dinner with the Speakers (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Barksdale-Isom Place

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Literature for Young Readers 1

Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, University of Mississippi
Elise Broach

Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Special Session/Demonstration Session on Book-Making: "The Folding and Stitching of Tradition: Lesson on Making Basic Books by Hand"

Katherine Rhodes Fields, University of Mississippi

Meek Hall 124

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Literature for Young Readers 2

Susan Phillips, Lafayette County Literacy Council
James Dashner

Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Poetry Craft Talk and Lunch (Reservation required)

Nicole Cooley, City University of New York. Queens College

Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Writing Biographies

Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi
John Aloysius Farrell
Jon Meacham, Random House Publishing Group
Ken Auletta

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Geography in Literature: Real and Imagined

W. Ralph Eubanks, Library of Congress
Steve Yarbrough, Emerson College
Frederick Reuss
Richard Grant

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Readings

Bobby Keys
Charlie Winton, Counterpoint
Bill Ditenhafer

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Reading

Baratunde Thurston

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Reception and Book Signing

Conference Attendees

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Breakfast (No charge; Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow

Elaine H. Scott, Reading is Fundamental
Claiborne Barksdale, University of Mississippi
Elise Broach
James Dashner

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Urge Toward Memoir

William Dunlap
Julia Reed, Garden and Gun
Norma Watkins, Miami Dade College
Randy Fertel

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Virtually Published: Blogs, Internet Journals, and Online Writing

Jack Pendarvis, University of Mississippi
Maud Newton
Anya Groner, Xavier University
Michael Bible

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch by Woodson Ridge Farms (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Barnard Observatory

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Cornbread Nation: Making Sense of the South by Way of Food

John T. Edge, University of Mississippi
Brett Anderson
Randy Fertel
Kim Severson, New York Times

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

New Directions: Publishing 75 Years and Beyond

Richard Howorth, Square Books (Oxford, MS)
Barbara Epler, New Directions
Declan Spring, New Directions

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Readings and Remarks

Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi
Michael Downs, Towson University
Jennifer Dubois, Stanford University

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM