Schedule
THURSDAY, MARCH 22
10:00 a.m. Registration in Barnard Observatory (not required) - all readings, panels, and discussions are free and open to the public.
*10:00 a.m. Special Lecture/Demonstration Session on Picture Book Making: “Puzzled by Pink”
Sarah Frances Hardy
Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library
11:30 a.m. Lunch and Opening Session
Ted Ownby, introduction
“`Great Wrongs’?: Writers’ Expectations, Publishers’ Realities in Early America”
David D. Hall
Lunch Hosted by Julia Rholes, Dean of University Libraries
Faulkner Room, Special Collections of J.D. Williams Library (3rd floor)
1:30 p.m. Welcome by Chancellor Daniel W. Jones
Celebration of National Poetry Month
Beth Ann Fennelly, moderator
Ann Fisher-Wirth, Brad Richard
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
2:30 p.m. Readings and Remarks
Ivo Kamps, moderator
Richard Ford, Josh Weil
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
4:00 p.m. “Writing Black Freedom Movements”
Charles Reagan Wilson, moderator
Randal Jelks, Allen Tullos, Michael Thomas
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
6:00 p.m. Thacker Mountain Radio at Off Square Books
Jim Dees, host
Bobby Keys and Charlie Winton, Readers
Michael Thomas, Reader
7:00 p.m. Dinner with the Speakers
Barksdale-Isom Place (Reservations Required)
FRIDAY, MARCH 23
9:00 a.m. Literature for Young Readers 1
Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, moderator
Elise Broach
Gertrude Ford Center for Performing Arts
*10:00 a.m. Special Lecture/Demonstration Session on Book-Making:
“The Folding & Stitching of Tradition: Lessons on Making Basic Books by Hand”
Katherine Rhodes Fields
Meek Hall 124 (Registration Required)
10:30 a.m. Literature for Young Readers 2
Susan Phillips, moderator
James Dashner
Gertrude Ford Center for Performing Arts
Noon Poetry Craft Talk and Lunch
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library (Reservations Required)
1:30 p.m. “Writing Biographies”
Curtis Wilkie, moderator
John Aloysius Farrell, Jon Meacham, Ken Auletta
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
2:30 p.m. “Geography in Literature: Real and Imagined”
W. Ralph Eubanks, moderator
Steve Yarbrough, Frederick Reuss, Richard Grant
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
4:00 p.m. Writing and Publishing Biography
Cody Morrison, Moderator
Bobby Keys, Charlie Winton, Bill Ditenhafer
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
5:30 p.m. Reading
Baratunde Thurston
Off Square Books
6:00 p.m. Reception and Book Signing – Off Square Books
SATURDAY, MARCH 24
8:00 a.m. Breakfast (No Charge; Registration Required)
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
9:00 a.m. “The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow”
Elaine H. Scott, moderator
Claiborne Barksdale, Elise Broach, James Dashner
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
10:00 a.m. “The Urge toward Memoir”
William Dunlap, moderator
Julia Reed, Norma Watkins, Randy Fertel
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
11:00 a.m. “Virtually Published: Blogs, Internet Journals, and Online Writing”
Jack Pendarvis, Maud Newton, Anya Groner, Michael Bible
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
Noon Lunch by Woodson Ridge Farms
Barnard Observatory (Registration Required)
2:00 p.m. “Cornbread Nation: Making Sense of the South by Way of Food”
John T. Edge, moderator
Brett Anderson, Randy Fertel, Kim Severson
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
3:00 p.m. “New Directions: Publishing 75 Years and Beyond”
Richard Howorth, moderator
Barbara Epler, Declan Spring
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
4:00 p.m. Readings and Remarks
Tom Franklin, moderator
Michael Downs, Jennifer Dubois
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
