2014: Writing the Southern Landscape

Welcome Lunch, Opening Talk

Greg Johnson, University of Mississippi
Derrick Harriell
University of Mississippi. Libraries.

J. D. Williams Library

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Fiction, Memory and Southern History

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Bill Cheng
Françoise Hamlin, Brown University
Jonathan Odell

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Journalism Forum

Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi
H. Brandt Ayers, Anniston Star (Ala.)
Ben Bradlee Jr., Boston Globe (Mass.)
Denise Kiernan
Ed Williams, Charlotte Observer (NC)

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Square Books Session #1: Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon, Vassar College

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Opening reception (Advance registration required)

Conference Attendees

Barksdale-Isom Place

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Young Authors Fair: 1st grade

Drew Daywalt

Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Pictures and Pages: A Documentary Photography Conversation

David Wharton, University of Mississippi
Maude Schuyler Clay
Deborah Luster
Tom Rankin
David Skolkin, Radius Books
George Thompson, Johns Hopkins University Press

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Poetry Readings and Conversation

Beth Ann Fennelly, University of Mississippi
Steve Scafidi
Tess Taylor
Kevin Young, Emory University

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Hybrid Forms

Jack Pendarvis
Michael Garriga, Baldwin Wallace University
Luke Geddes, University of Cincinnati
Aurelie Sheehan, University of Arizona, Tuscon

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Square Books Session #2: An Editor and Author Conversation

Deborah Johnson
Amy Einhorn, Amy Einhorn Books

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Square Books Pop Up Shop and Signing

Conference Attendees

The Lyric Theater (Oxford, MS)

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees
Michael Garriga, Baldwin Wallace University
Kevin Young, Emory University

The Lyric Theater (Oxford, MS)

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Southern Literary Festival: Open Mike Night

Conference Attendees

Oxford Depot

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Lafayette County Literacy Council Forum: Adult and Family Literacy

Nancy Opalko, Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library
Liz Brown, Excel Inc.
Kevin Dean, Literacy Mid-South
Elizabeth Triplett, Itawamba Learning Center

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Hellhounds, Crossroads, and a Bluesman's Women: Robert Johnson in Story and Song

Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi
Fruteland Jackson
Snowden Wright

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Poetry Talk and Lunch (Advance registration required)

Tess Taylor

Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Square Books Session #3: Reading and Conversation

Amy Greene
Susan Minot
Lorrie Moore

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Dissecting a Bestseller: The Making of An Italian Palate

William Dunlap
John Langston, University of Mississippi Press
Robert St. John
Wyatt Waters

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

When Harriet the Spy Grew Up: Feminism and the Second Golden Age of Crime Fiction

Laura Lippman

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

4:00 PM - 6:15 PM

Southern Literary Festival Keynote Address

Megan Abbott, University of Mississippi

Ballroom, Inn at Ole Miss

6:15 PM - 7:15 PM

Closing Reception and Book Signing

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

7:15 PM - 10:00 PM

Southern Literary Festival Celebration of North Mississippi Hill Country Music

Sharde Thomas and the Rising Fife Band
Duwayne Burnside
Reverend John Wilkins

Powerhouse Community Arts Center

9:00 PM - 12:00 AM