Festival Kick-Off
Bookshop Scoop
Race and Identity, One Year After Charlottesville
Presented by Virginia Wilson Mounger
These writers, scholars and legal historians examine how we talk about race and identity one year after the Charlottesville riots.
C-SPAN live presented by Entergy
Teaching Welty
Waxing Poetic with the Pros
In the Southern Kitchen
For the Love of It
Southern Fiction and Redemption
Mississippi’s Got Game
Presented by Wise Carter
Mississippi sports legends kick around iconic stories from on and off the field.
Southern Writers on Writing
Hope (Nation) and Other Four-Letter Words
American History
Presented by Mississippi Library Commission
Random House Executive and publishing insider Todd Doughty moderates an epic discussion about sprawling American topics related to great cities, states and seas.
C-SPAN live presented by Entergy
Our Nation’s New Melting Pot Cuisine
Julia Reed Under the (Garden &) Gun
A Conversation with Jesmyn Ward
Picture This!
Mississippi Civil Rights History
Meet Me in the Middle
Presented by the de Grummond Collection and the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival
A kids’ panel rides a roller-coaster overview of top reads for the middle school set.
Southern History
National Civil Rights History
Jon Meacham in Conversation with Karl Rove
Unbridled Books and the National Literary Scene
Presented by Mississippi State University
An inside look at the ups and downs of publishing and the relationship between a national literary publisher and two of its award-winning authors.
Inside American Politics
Mississippi Publishers Roundtable
Mississippi in the Middle
Presented by the de Grummond Collection, the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival and University of Mississippi MFA Program
Mississippi-rooted middle grade authors discuss how their children’s fiction embodies courage, friendship, mystery and self-discovery.
Grant and Lincoln
Delta Dawn and Dusk
Presented by BKD CPAs & Advisors and Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area
Authors explore real-life stories and the realities of race, economics and sense of place in the Mississippi Delta.
Conserving Mississippi History
Presented by Mississippi Department of Archives and History and Nautilus Publishing
Landmark conservation efforts, politics, racial divides and postscripts to the past are all part of a dynamic history still unfolding.
Southern Music
Presented by Cathead Distillery and Delta Center for Culture and Learning
As diehard fans of and contributors to the history and legacy of Southern music, these panelists will hit a high note with lovers of the South’s authentic music: blues, gospel, folk, rock and more!
True Crime