SCHEDULE / VENUE GRID
9:00
am
STATE
CAPITOL
ROOM 103
STATE
CAPITOL
ROOM 113
STATE
CAPITOL
ROOM 201 A
STATE
CAPITOL
ROOM 201 H
STATE
CAPITOL
ROOM 202
STATE
CAPITOL
ROOM 204
9:30
10:30
am
Page to Screen
Maritime
Madness
Music
Speculative
Fiction
Transforming
Lives: The
Impact of Prison
Book Clubs on
Incarcerated
Individuals
Poetry
10:45
11:45
am
Rivers of
Mississippi
Reimagining
Classics
Memoir
Southern Fiction
1000 Words
Workshop
with
Jami Attenberg
In Conversation
with
Major Jackson
12:00
1:00
pm
Middle Grade
Dreams
Food & Memory
The Female
Lead in
Myth & Fantasy
The Western
Novel
Mothers
Writing:
Meander Maps
with Catherine
Simone Gray
In Conversation
with
Natasha
Trethewey
1:30
-
2:30
pm
—
Sebastian
Junger
Mississippi
Memoirs
2024
Presidential
Election
Creative Writing
Workshop
with USM
Mad about
Madville Press
2:45
-
3:45
pm
Mississippi
Culture
Mystery
Mississippi
Youth
Poetry Project
Horror
—
Remembering
Brad Watson
4:00
-
5:00
pm
Pride &
Prejudice
Literary Fiction
Political
Journalism
Historical
Fiction
Building
Characters
& Building
Worlds with
Liz Egan
Divining the
Deep South:
A Three-Genre
Conversation
MISSISSIPPI BOOK FESTIVAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY
OPENING CEREMONY
presented by Visit Mississippi
Join us at 9:00 am on the south steps of the State Capitol Building
as we celebrate a decade of literary lawn parties
and mark the occasion with a special unveiling.