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Pulitzer on the Road:

Investigative Journalism

C-SPAN/OLD SUPREME COURT

PRESENTED BY Mississippi Today

COVERAGE PROVIDED BY C-SPAN

ROOM BY BarbourHurst

Tese Pulitzer Prize-winners and fnalists discuss

their noteworthy journalistic endeavors and the process

of research and reporting.

• Layne Bruce (moderator)

• Anna Wolfe (journalist)

• Jerry Mitchell – Race Against Time:

A Report Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

• Brody Mullins – The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History

of How Big Money Took Over Big Government

The Western Novel

STATE CAPITOL 201 H

PRESENTED BY Mississippi State University

College of Arts & Sciences;

Friends of Virginia Wilson Mounger

Literary Westerns contain all the exciting

elements of the classic genre – unassuming heroes,

dangerous escapades in the name of justice,

sweeping romances, and more – with the fresh,

sharp voices of contemporary literary fction.

• Beverly Lowry (moderator) – Deer Creek Drive:

A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

• Elizabeth Crook – The Madstone

• Paulette Jiles – Chenneville

South Arts Fellows for

Literary Arts

GALLOWAY FELLOWSHIP CENTER

PRESENTED BY Te Selby & Richard McRae

Foundation

Te frst ever class of South Arts Fellows for Literary

Arts discusses their works of fction 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

In Conversation

with Natasha Trethewey

STATE CAPITOL 204

PRESENTED BY Margaret Walker Center

at Jackson State University;

Te MAX: Mississippi Arts +

Entertainment Experience

In this intimate and searching meditation,

former US Poet Laureate and Mississippi native

Natasha Trethewey revisits the geography of her

childhood to trace the origins of her writing life

in a volume so lyrically intricate and beautiful,

it could only be written by such a master of poetry.

• Robert E. Luckett, Jr. (moderator) – Redefining Liberal Arts

Education in the Twenty-First Century

• Natasha Trethewey – The House of Being

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 fow.

• 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)

Food & Memory

STATE CAPITOL 113

PRESENTED BY Te H.T. White Family

Fund; University of Southern Mississippi

University Forum

Poetic prose and lyrical meditations on food

and culture examine the power memory has on

what we choose to eat.

• Cree Myles (moderator)

• Aimee Nezhukumatathil – Bite by Bite:

Nourishments and Jamborees

• Crystal Wilkinson – Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts:

Stories and Recipes from Five Generations

of Black Country Cooks

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 fnd 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

The Female Lead

in Myth & Fantasy

STATE CAPITOL 201 A

PRESENTED BY Jackson State University

Authors make history and magic come to life

in these enthralling tales of sirens, dragons,

and Greek mythology reimagined.

• Ebony Lumumba (moderator)

• O.O. Sangoyomi – Masquerade

• Jenn Lyons – The Sky on Fire

• Gabi Burton – Drown Me with Dreams

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

Jef 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

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