Saturday, January 27, 2024
HOMEGROWN: A WRITERS’ EXCHANGE
~ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPP ~
GULF PARK CAMPUS, LONG BEACH, MS
Schedule of Panels
Schedule will be added as speakers and times are confirmed — click here for current schedule
Authors Katy Simpson Smith, Jeffrey Blount & Jami Attenberg on adult fiction panel.
Authors Mary Miller & Ladee Hubbard with short stories moderator J. Bruce Fuller.
Discussion with Non-Fiction panelists Rien Fertel, Nathaniel Rich, and Macon Fry moderated by Lisa McMurtray of UPM
Audience listens attentively during non-fiction authors’ presentations
Katy Simpson Smith reads a passage from her book, WEEDS, as Jeffrey Blount and Jamie Attenberg listen. Hancock PAC, January 27, 2024
| HOMEGROWN: A WRITERS EXCHANGE | |||||||||||||||
| Saturday, February 1, 2025 | |||||||||||||||
| SCHEDULE OF PROGRAMS | |||||||||||||||
| ON STAGE | HARDY HALL | FEC BUILDING | FEC BUILDING | PITCH | |||||||||||
| FEC AUDITORIUM | BALLROOM | CLASSROOMS - SECOND FLOOR | CLASSROOMS - SECOND FLOOR | SESSIONS | |||||||||||
| ** contingency space for opening speaker | Up Elevator by FLEMING ROTUNDA - 2nd Floor, Left | Aspiring Writers | |||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM | ~ WELCOME ~ | with Publishers | |||||||||||||
| OPENING REMARKS | |||||||||||||||
| & ANNOUNCEMENTS | |||||||||||||||
| 9:30 AM | THE ART OF THE COOKBOOK | 9:35 AM | IN CONVERSATION | 9:30 AM | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | (re)INTRODUCING WALTER ANDERSON | 9:30 AM | ||||||||
| Malcolm White, moderator | A WRITER'S LIFE | Andrea Moreau, moderator | Julian Rankin, moderator - WAMA director | ||||||||||||
| MPB Think Radio ~ DEEP SOUTH DINING | Beth Kander, I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY | Natalie Guess, THE BIGGEST, THE OLDEST, THE STRONGEST | John Anderson - THE BICYCLE LOGS | 9:45 AM | |||||||||||
| Dale Gray, SOUTH OF SOMEWHERE | with | Marshall Ramsey, SAVING SAM! A BANJO DOG STORY | Kendall Dunkelberg- BARRIER ISLAND SUITE | ||||||||||||
| Matt Haines,THE BIG BOOK OF KING CAKES | M.O. (Neal) Walsh, THE BIG DOOR PRIZE | Emly Liner, STRETCH LIKE SCARLET | Mary Anderson Picard - ANDERSON'S ALICE | 10:00 AM | |||||||||||
| Melissa M. Martin, BAYOU; and | |||||||||||||||
| MOSQUITO SUPPER CLUB | 10:40 AM | 10:35 AM | 10:15 AM | ||||||||||||
| 10:45 AM | (re) VISITING KATRINA: YEAR 20 | 10:40 AM | YA LITERATURE | VIDEO PRESENTATION | |||||||||||
| Bernie Cullen, moderator - GROUND ZERO MUSEUM | Tracy Carr, moderator | FEC Building - FIRST FLOOR CLASSROOM (102) - East | 10:30 AM | ||||||||||||
| 10:45 AM | IN CONVERSATION | Ellis Anderson, UNDER SURGE, UNDER SEIGE | Phillippe Diederich, DIAMOND PARK; | ||||||||||||
| 11:30 AM | Lisa Genova with Katy Simpson Smith | Maraget McMullen - AFTERMATH LOUNGE | Johnnie Bernhard, HANNAH & ARIELA | NAVIGATING THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY | 10:45 AM | ||||||||||
| MORE OR LESS MADDY; & STILL ALICE; | Rob Gaudet - CAJUN NAVY GROUND FORCE | presented by Johnnie Berhard | |||||||||||||
| REMEMBER: THE SCIENCE OF MEMORY | 11:45 AM | 11:40 AM | by popular demand - SRO in HOMEGROWN 2024 | 11:00 AM | |||||||||||
| & THE ART OF FORGETTING | video session ~ one hour | ||||||||||||||
| 11:15 AM | |||||||||||||||
| No Programs Scheduled | |||||||||||||||
| 12:30 PM | Break for Lunch | Break for Lunch | Break for Lunch | Break for Lunch | 11:30 AM | ||||||||||
| 12:10 PM | INTERMISSION | 12:00 PM | INTERMISSION | INTERMISSION | INTERMISSION | ||||||||||
| 11:45 AM | |||||||||||||||
| MISSISSIPPI STORIES | PUBLISHERS FORUM | IN CONVERSATION | |||||||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Diane Williams, moderator | 12:45 PM | Scott Naugle, moderator | 12:50 PM | with ROOTED Magazine | 12:00 PM | |||||||||
| Kathryn Lewis - THE TELLING TREES PROJECT | Lisa McMurtray, University Press of Mississippi | Shira Muroff, community editor | |||||||||||||
| Margo Cooper -- DEEP INSIDE THE BLUES | Scott Campbell, Pelican Publishing Company | Lee Durkee, THE LAST TAXI DRIVER | |||||||||||||
| Dan Gutstein -- POOR GAL | with ROOTED Magazine | ||||||||||||||
| 1:45 PM | 1:50 PM | ||||||||||||||
| 2:00 PM | VIDEO PRESENTATION | ||||||||||||||
| King Cake ~ Break | 2:00 PM | King Cake ~ Break | 2;00 PM | King Cake ~ Break | NAVIGATING THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY | ||||||||||
| presented by Johnnie Berhard | |||||||||||||||
| FILM SCREENING | by popular demand - SRO in HOMEGROWN 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| 2:15 PM | "EUDORA" (2024) | video session | |||||||||||||
| documentary film on Eudora Welty | one hour | ||||||||||||||
| Filmmaker Anthony Thaxton | |||||||||||||||
| THAXTON STUDIOS - Raymond, MS | |||||||||||||||
| Talk Back - Post Screening | |||||||||||||||
| 3:45 PM | Anthony Thaxton | ||||||||||||||
| AUTHORS ~ MEET & GREET | AUTHORS ~ MEET & GREET | AUTHORS ~ MEET & GREET | AUTHORS ~ MEET & GREET | ||||||||||||
| Join Us In the Lobby | Join Us In the Lobby | Join Us In the Lobby | Join Us In the Lobby | ||||||||||||
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