10
12:00 pm
South Arts Fellows for
Literary Arts
GALLOWAY FELLOWSHIP CENTER
presented by The Selby & Richard McRae
Foundation
The first ever class of South Arts Fellows for Literary
Arts discusses their works of fiction that earned them
their fellowships, as well as how living in the South
has informed these works and shaped them as a writer.
• John T Edge (moderator) – The Potlikker Papers:
A Food History of the Modern South
• Maurice Carlos Ruffin – The American Daughters
• Melissa Ginsburg – Doll Apollo: Poems
• Randi Pink – We Are the Scribes
• Ashley Blooms – Where I Can’t Follow
• Joanna Pearson – Bright and Tender Dark
• Camille Boxhill
• Constance Collier-Mercado
• F.E. Choe
• Yurina Yoshikawa
Editor & Authors:
Novels Edited by
Lee Boudreaux
GALLOWAY RECEPTION
presented by Holly & Alan Lange;
Mississippi State University Libraries
Best-sellers, edited by Doubleday’s vice president
and executive editor Lee Boudreaux, live up to their hype
as poignant studies of coming-of-age as an adult and all
the complexities of relationships as they ebb and flow.
• Todd Doughty (moderator) – Little Pieces of Hope:
Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World
• Ron Rash – The Caretaker
• Claire Lombardo – Same As It Ever Was
• Lee Boudreaux (vice president & executive editor doubleday)
SOUTHERN PRIZE AND
STATE FELLOWSHIPS
FOR LITERARY ARTS
A PROGRAM OF SOUTH ARTS
Middle Grade
Dreams
STATE CAPITOL 103
presented by Beard + Riser Architects;
Terry Hunt & Dick Molpus
Four middle grade authors celebrate determined
young characters who defy odds, hunt for treasure,
and find magic.
• Sami Thomason-Fyke (moderator)
• Taryn Souders – The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle
• Angie Thomas – Nic Blake and the Remarkables:
The Manifestor Prophecy
• Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn – Exclusion and the
Chinese American Story
• Julian Randall – The Chainbreakers
family-
friendly
A Life Impossible
with Steve Gleason
GALLOWAY SANCTUARY
presented by Capitol Resources, LLC;
Balch & Bingham LLP
Steve Gleason, former New Orleans Saints safety
and recent recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe
Courage Award, talks to his wife Michel and co-author
Jeff Duncan about A Life Impossible, his new memoir
about his thirteen-year journey with ALS.
• Jeff Duncan (moderator) – A Life Impossible: Living with ALS:
Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence
• Steve Gleason – A Life Impossible: Living with ALS:
Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence
• Michel Gleason
Live-stream at
msbookfestival.com