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In honor of its upcoming 30th year, the Oxford Conference for the Book has received a surprise gift from Hawthornden Foundation. Jimmy Thomas, director of the conference, which is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, welcomed the news. “We are both thrilled and incredibly grateful for … Continued

Join author Michael Farris Smith at the Powerhouse in Oxford on Friday, October 13 for an evening of cinema featuring the film adaptation of his book “Desperation Road.” Smith’s novel was named Indie Next, honored on numerous Best Books lists, and will be his second feature-film adaptation but the first to release. The Southern noir … Continued

The dates are set for the Thirtieth Oxford Conference for the Book: April 3, 4, and 5, 2024. Mark your calendars!

On Friday, March 31, Deesha Philyaw, the Grisham Writer-in-Residence and UM visiting professor, will assume the moderator’s chair at 10:30 a.m. for the genre-spanning panel “Church-ish: On Literature, Blackness, and Christianity” with poet Khalisa Rae, nonfiction author Danté Stewart and novelist Chantal James, after a welcome by Kathryn McKee, director of the Center for the … Continued

Although the Oxford Conference for the Book officially begins Wednesday, March 29, there is an OCB co-sponsored, pre-conference event at 6:00 p.m. Friday, March 24, honoring a new edition of Hubert Creekmore’s important, long out-of-print novel The Welcome (University Press of Mississippi, 2023) in the author’s nearby hometown of Water Valley. Philip Gordon, author of the edition’s … Continued