2018: Affrilachia and Affrilachian Poets

Pre-conference Warm Up

Michael Farris Smith

Off Square Books (Oxford Square)

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Welcome Lunch and Lecture

Wayne A. Wiegand
Shirley Wiegand

J. D. Williams Library

11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Fannye Cook: Mississippi's Pioneering Conservationist

Cathy Shropshire
Libby Hartfield
Marion Barnwell

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Writing U.S. Political History

Curtis Wilkie
Tom Oliphant
Ellen Meacham
John A. Farrell

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Reading and Conversation

Jonathan Miles
Jim Dees

Off Square Books (Oxford Square)

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Book Conference Authors Party (Advance ticket required)

Conference Attendees

Barksdale-Isom House

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Children's Book Conference: 1st graders

Matt de la Peña

Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Writing on the Southern Latino Experience

Simone Delerme
Leon Fink
Daniel Connolly
Angela Stuesse

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Children's Book Conference: 5th graders

Matt de la Peña

Ford Center for the Performing Arts

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Southern Bohemianism: The Countercultural South

Shawn Chandler Bingham
Lindsey A. Freeman
Zandria Robinson
Scott Barretta
Chris Offutt
Jaime Cantrell

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Could Publishing Be in My Future?: Publishing as a Career

University Press of Mississippi

Barnard Observatory Conference Room 108

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

The Tennessee Fight for Women's Suffrage

Elaine Weiss
Jessica Wilkerson

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

A Summons to Oxford

Ann Beattie

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Poetry and Prose on the Square

Beth Ann Fennelly
Marcus Wicker
Jenny Browne
Jennifer Tseng

Southside Gallery (Oxford Square)

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees

Lyric Theater (Oxford Square)

6:00 PM - 10:30 AM

Radical Foodways

John T. Edge
Jonathan Kauffman

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Poetry Talk and Lunch

Jenny Browne

Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Reading and Conversation

Martin Amis

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Affrilachian Poets and their Legacy

Julian Randall
Frank X. Walker
Kelly Norman Ellis
Ricardo Nazario y Colon

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Reading and Conversation

Ann Beattie
Jane Hill

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Twenty-Five and Counting

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford Square)

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM