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The 32nd Oxford Conference for the Book is March 25-27, 2026. Free and open to the public.

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The @WMorrisAwards winners Susan Gregg Gilmore, AJ White & @KevinDSack read at 4 p.m. followed by a celebration with food, music and merriment at Off @SquareBooks. That's a wrap for the 32nd @OxConfBook!
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Learn all about “Book Publishing: Inside and Out” at 2:45 p.m. with @reynoldsmichael @EuropaEditions in conversation with Dan Simon @7StoriesPress about Simon’s debut novel & independent publishing at Off @SquareBooks.
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Excited to hear from @NicholasLemann at 1:30 p.m. for his book “Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries” at 1:30 p.m. at Off @SquareBooks @liverightbooks
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We are wrapping up a great day of books & authors on Thacker Mountain Radio at 6 p.m. with @TomJunod & AJ White & musical guests Jemero Carter/Kingdomology and the Otha Turner Boys at the Powerhouse.
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Be quick about it! The “‘Flash!’: Micro-Memoirs and Flash Writing” with @stevealmondjoy @sukrungruang & @BethFennelly is at 4 p.m. at Southside Gallery.
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It's Mississippi time! Mississippi authors @addieecitchens ("Dominion") @bobbusbywrites ("Bodock") & Nadia Alexis ("Beyond the Watershed") share the experiences publishing their first books at 2:30 p.m. @OverbyCenter
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Looking forward to the @eddafieldsblack “Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid” session at 1 p.m. Black will be in conversation with Robert Colby @OverbyCenter. Session sponsored by the UM Center for Civil War Research. @OxUniPress
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We begin at 9:30 a.m. with Jay Wesley & Eddie Johnson ("Choctaw Traditions: Stories of the Life and Customs of the Mississippi Choctaw") at the @OverbyCenter followed by @nationalbook authors @smathewss & Camonghne Felix at 11:30 a.m. in the @UMLibraries.
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Our keynote lecture with @TracklessWild is at 6 p.m. at Nutt Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Tomorrow and Friday: a full day of literary events!
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We kick things off tonight for the prologue event at 5:30 p.m. for @aimeenez "Night Owl." See you at Off Square Books!
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We are so excited to partner with the @WMorrisAwards to announce winners Jamie Quatro (fiction),@BoyceUpholt (nonfiction) & Devreaux Baker (poetry) at 4:30 p.m. at Off @SquareBooks. Stick around for the party & book signing after their reading! 🥂 🎉 🎊 📚 🥳
Willie Morris Award winners at 4:30 at Off Square Books

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"Philippe left right after the Nazis came. He understood how the fabric of the country would rot faster than old silk," Alice Austen writes in "33 Place Brugmann," a tour de force about the power of love, courage & art in times of great threat. 3 p.m. at Off @SquareBooks
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Next up: “A Legacy of Love, Survival, and Storytelling” with Bernice McFadden @queenazsa reading from "Firstborn Girls" at 1:30 at Off @SquareBooks, 129 Courthouse Square.
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Hear about “Poetry’s Magic” with @PhilipMetres at the Lafayette County-Oxford Public Library, 401 Bramlett Blvd. at noon.
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Poetry & music are weaved together for “After Songs: An Evening of Poetry and Music” at 8 p.m. in Nutt Auditorium w/ @OleMiss music dept. faculty Michael Rowlett, Adrienne Park & Philip Snyder and the premiere of a piece by Oxford composer @pricewalden. Free!
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Put your hands on the radio! Author Preston Lauterbach talks Elvis inspiration, poet Devreaux Baker shares poetry & @ElijahWald & @JontaviousMusic give us a beat on @ThackerMtRadio at the Powerhouse at 6 p.m. Authors from Thursday’s sessions will sign books. 📻 🎶 🎤 📚
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April is National Poetry Month, with 30 days of celebrating the joy, expressiveness & pure delight of poetry. Join poets @PhilipMetres @jkolchpoetry and Rose McLarney with @BethFennelly for “Poetry in the Gallery” at 4 p.m. at @SouthsideArt
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NEW TIME! The former state poet laureate of MS & the 19th U.S. poet laureate @NTrethewey will be in conversation w/ @Wralpheubanks @SouthernStudies at 2:30 p.m. @OverbyCenter. NEW TIME! More at bit.ly/4j8a1Y5
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NEW TIME! Uncertainty and tension come together in “The Suspense of Writing” panel coming up at 1 p.m. with Lilliam Rivera, Rachel Lyon & Zach Williams in conversation with @Ginsburgmelissa @OverbyCenter 📕 📖 📚
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Join @NifMuhammad as he talks basketball and @Vanessid shares about magical realism in the @nationalbook session at 11:30 in the Baxter Room of @UMLibraries. 🏀 📚 📖 📕
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