Funders

Through the generosity of individuals, businesses, foundations, and partners, the annual Mississippi Book Festival is sustained and made FREE to the public. Download the 2021 Funder Invitation and 2021 Funder Pledge Form today and join us in making this year’s festival the best ever!

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• National Book Foundation Literary Fund
• Mike McRee
• Carol Puckett & John Palmer

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• Rachel and Joel Bomgar Foundation
• Butler Snow
• Betsy and Kane Ditto
• Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP
• Terry Hunt and Dick Molpus
• Billy VanDevender
• Holly and Alan Lange
• Entergy
• Jean and Kelley Williams Family Fund
• Visit Jackson

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• Nancy and Cecil Brown
• Mississippi Arts Commission
• Pass Books / Cat Island Coffeehouse
• Watkins & Eager
• ChemFirst / First Mississippi Corporation Charitable Endowment Fund
• de Grummond Collection at USM
• Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival
• Communication Arts Company

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• University Press of Mississippi
• Beard+Riser Architects
• BKD CPAs & Advisors
• BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS LLP
• Louisa Dixon and Jerry Johnson
• Carroll, Warren & Parker
• Cathead Distillery
• Chism Strategies
• Cornerstone Consulting Group, Inc.
• H. T. White Family Fund
• Hederman Brothers
• First Commercial Bank
• Fischer Galleries
• Friends of Washington County Community Foundation
• Jackson State University, Margaret Walker Center and Division of Graduate Studies
• LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi
• Mississippi Library Commission
• Margaret and Bob Montgomery
• Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration
• Nautilus Publishing
• Janet and Luther Ott
• Carolyn and Chris Ray
• Sara and Bill Ray
• Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway

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• Jackie Bailey
• Matthew Bailey
• David McCarty
• Jean and Tim Medley
• Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting
• Karen Redhead
• Laura Sparks
• Beau Wilson

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• The Clarion-Ledger
• The New York Review of Books
• Well-Being Magazine
• Y’all Politics
• Mississippi Magazine
• Mississippi Today
• Oxford American
• The Jackson Advocate
• The Northside Sun
• Delta Magazine
• The Mississippi Link
• JXN Transplants
• The Roguish Gent