The Oxford Conference for the Book is returning to Oxford and the University of Mississippi campus on March 29-31, 2023, as an in-person event, with special partnerships with the Willie Morris Awards in Southern Writing and the National Book Foundation, the administrators of the National Book Awards.
Confirmed participants include Jonathan Escoffery ("If I Survive You"), Ralph Eubanks ("A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape"), Wayne Flynt ("Afternoons with Harper Lee"), Celia Naylor ("Unsilencing Slavery: Telling Truths about Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica"), S. A. Cosby ("Razorblade Tears"), Megan Abbott ("The Turnout"), Eli Cranor ("Ozark Dogs"), poets Tarfia Faizullah ("Seam"), James Hoch ("Miscreants"), and Mahogany L. Browne ("Black Girl Magic"), with readings by the Willie Morris Award winners.
Keep an eye on the conference website, www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com, for information on special events and news on authors participating in the upcoming Twenty-Ninth Oxford Conference for the Book.