Press
2023
2022
- JPS students meet New York Times Best Selling author during MS Book Festival preview (WLBT On Your Side: August 19, 2022)
- Saturday’s Mississippi Book Festival features MSU faculty, staff authors (Mississippi State University Newsroom: August 18, 2022 )
- Mississippi Book Festival Comes To The Capitol Saturday Aug 20 (Darkhorse Press: August 17, 2022)
- The Mississippi Book Festival is back on at the State Capitol (Y'all.com: August 16, 2022)
- MS Book Festival: Hot Books, Top Authors, Cool Event (The Pine Belt News: August 16, 2022)
- Alice Walker’s journals offer a ‘workbook’ for artists (Mississippi Today: August 15, 2022)
- Mississippi Book Festival returns Saturday (SuperTalk Mississippi: August 15, 2022)
- Hot Books, Top Authors, Cool Event (Press Release: August 15, 2022)
- In ‘South to America,’ Imani Perry seeks to understand a region ‘so varying it can seem endless’ (Mississippi Today: August 10, 2022)
- Soul Sessions Podcast: Ellen Daniels (Soul Sessions Jackson: August 5, 2022)
- ‘I Am From Here’ is more than a cookbook. It’s a way to get to know people. (Mississippi Today: August 3, 2022)
- Q&A with ‘Overground Railroad’ authors on the importance of storytelling and history (Mississippi Today: August 1, 2022)
- John Lewis’ ‘March’ and ‘Run’ collaborators look to Mississippi visit to continue civil right leader’s legacy (Mississippi Today: July 17, 2022)
- In ‘The Movement Made Us,’ father and son reflect on the past, both remembered and forgotten (Mississippi Today: July 13, 2022)
- Beginning to question first impressions: Q&A with author Matt de la Peña (Mississippi Today: July 5, 2022)
- Mississippi’s Literary Lawn Party Returns Aug. 20 (Y'all.com: June 24, 2022)
- Pulitzer Prize Winner Alice Walker to Speak at Mississippi Book Festival (Press Release: April 7, 2022)
2021
- Mississippi Stories: Mississippi Book Festival Executive Director Ellen Rodgers Daniels (Mississippi Today: October 17, 2021)
- Log On For a Literary Party (Super Talk Mississippi: October 12, 2021)
- Mississippi Book Festival is Digital This Year (SuperTalk Mississippi: October 11, 2021)
- Mississippi Book Festival going virtual again (Daily Journal: October 8, 2021)
- Mississippi Book Festival Goes Virtual (Press Release: October 5, 2021)
- ‘There is nothing more powerful than remembering’: Q&A with Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch III (Mississippi Today: September 24, 2021)
- Mississippi Book Festival Announces New Executive Director (Press Release: September 7, 2021)
- Beat COVID-19? Cure cancer? Isaacson’s bestseller delves into gene editing, the breakthrough that could do both (Mississippi Today: August 25, 2021)
- Mississippi Book Festival Cancels In-Person Event for August 21 (Press Release: August 11, 2021)
- Ralph Eubanks answers the age-old question: Why has Mississippi produced so many great writers? (Mississippi Today: July 28, 2021)
- ‘The more quirky and eccentric the person, the better’: How Annalyn Swan fell in love with biographical writing (Mississippi Today: July 23, 2021)
- Covid-19 Event Guidance (Mississippi Book Festival: July 19, 2021)
- ‘Everybody has a place to be outside’: Q&A with author Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Mississippi Today: July 15, 2021)
- Q&A: Curtis Wilkie discusses his new book ‘When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer’ (Mississippi Today: July 9, 2021)
- How Black women and the church shaped Deesha Philyaw's writings (Mississippi Today: June 23, 2021)
- 7th Annual Mississippi Book Festival to be held in August (WJTV: June 9, 2021)
- MS Book Fest Announces Starting Lineup of Celebrated Authors (Press Release: June 8, 2021)
- Poet Jericho Brown tells his truth, especially during a difficult year (Mississippi Today: June 8, 2021)
- A Conversation with Holly Lange on Future Book Festivals (Northside Sun: January 14, 2021)
2020
2019
- Oxford Represents at Mississippi Book Festival (The Oxford Eagle: August 22, 2019)
- MC Leaders Support Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson (Mississippi College: August 20, 2019)
- Record Attendance at Saturday's Book Festival (Press Release: August 17, 2019)
- Literary Lawn Party: Mississippi Book Festival Held in Jackson (WLBT 3 On Your Side: August 17, 2019)
- MS Book Fest has a hot lineup of cool authors and more (Press Release: August 14, 2019)
- Libraries Prove To Be Far From a Dying Institution (WLBT 3 On Your Side: August 14, 2019)
- MS Book Festival triples student outreach this year (Press Release: August 13, 2019)
- Now You're Talking w/ Marshall Ramsey: MS Book Festival with Holly Lange (Mississippi Public Broadcasting: August 12, 2019 )
- 'Literary Lawn Part:' Top 10 things to do at the 2019 Mississippi Book Festival (The Clarion-Ledger: August 11, 2019)
- Write On, Mississippi (Northside Sun Magazine: July 19, 2019)
- We Don't Do That Here | Holly Lange | TEDxJackson (TEDx Talks: July 16, 2019)
- Dav Pilkey's Dog Man Takes to the Stage—and the Road (Publishers Weekly: July 11, 2019)
- Book Festival Announces 5th Anniversary in August (Press Release: March 19, 2019)
- Mississippi Roads: Book Load of Fun (Mississippi Public Broadcasting: February 28, 2019 )
2018
- Angie Thomas Celebration (Press Release: October 9, 2018)
- Writers Trail Builds on Success of Book Festival (The Clarion-Ledger: September 2018)
- Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship (The Mom Society: August 21, 2018)
- Mississippi Book Festival Attendance Reaches 7,600 (Press Release: August, 20, 2018)
- Jesmyn Ward, Salman Rushdie draw large crowds at Mississippi Book Festival (The Clarion-Ledger: August 18, 2018)
- Ward, Rushdie Draw Large Crowds at Mississippi Book Fest (Associated Press: August 18, 2018)
- Eudora Welty and Jesmyn Ward among those honored at Mississippi Book Fest (WLBT: August 18, 2018)
- MS Book Festival ploys 'page-turner' of a party (Press Release: August 15, 2018)
- Book festival boosts close encounters with authors, Mississippi kids (Press Release: August 13, 2018)
- Conversations: Holly Lange (Mississippi Public Broadcasting: August 5, 2018)
- Mississippi's Giant Literary Party (Jackson Free Press: July 25, 2018)
- Fourth Annual Mississippi Book Festival Promises to Be "One for the Books" (Press Release: June 15, 2018)
- Press Kit (Mississippi Book Festival: June 15, 2018)
- Hope Nation for YA Readers (Mississippi Book Festival: May 15, 2018)
- Booked Pulitzer Prize Winner Jon Meacham with Karl Rove (Mississippi Book Festival: May, 8, 2018)
- The BEST in Southern Food and Culture at the Mississippi Book Festival (Mississippi Book Festival: May 1, 2018)
- Mississippi Blazes It's Literary Trail (The New York Times: April 26, 2018)
- A Special Evening with Charles Frazier (Mississippi Book Festival: April 24, 2018)
- Salman Rushdie to Appear at Mississippi Book Festival (Mississippi Book Festival: April 13, 2018)
- Jesmyn Ward Returns to Mississippi Book Festival (The Clarion-Ledger: February 20, 2018)
- Jesmyn Ward Coming Back to Book Fest (Mississippi Book Festival: February 20, 2018)
- The Marketing and Networking Success of State Book Festivals (Southern Writers: January 2018)
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