Funders

Support for non-festival activities throughout the year is a great way to reach customers and connect with peers. For more information, reach out by email.

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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
• Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kime
• 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