{"id":73830,"date":"2019-03-27T13:55:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=73830"},"modified":"2019-03-27T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:00:00","slug":"the-26th-annual-oxford-conference-for-the-book-brings-lit-lovers-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-26th-annual-oxford-conference-for-the-book-brings-lit-lovers-together\/","title":{"rendered":"The 26th Annual Oxford Conference for the Book Brings Lit Lovers Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the University of Mississippi\u2019<\/strong>s and Oxford<\/strong>\u2019s most popular events will take place March 27\u201329, when poets, novelists, journalists, scholars, and, most importantly, readers, will flock to Oxford to celebrate the Twenty-Sixth Oxford Conference for the Book<\/strong>. The event is always free and open to the public with events taking place on campus, the Lafayette County Courthouse<\/strong>, Square Books,<\/strong> and other venues around town. Visit www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com for a complete schedule and more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kicking\noff the conference is Wednesday\u2019s luncheon program, which takes place at the J. D. Williams Library<\/strong> on the\nUniversity campus. Three program sessions on Wednesday afternoon take place at\nthe Overby Center for Southern\nJournalism and Politics<\/strong>, located on the University campus. The day\u2019s final\nreading by Leanne Shapton<\/strong> takes\nplace at Off Square Books <\/strong>at 5 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday\u2019s\nsessions take place at the Overby Center. Thacker\nMountain Radio<\/em><\/strong> will be held at the Lyric\nTheatre<\/strong>, and the screening of La Frontera <\/em>and reading from Border\nWalk <\/em>will be held at the Powerhouse<\/strong>.\nThacker Mountain Radio will feature author Ken\nWells<\/strong> with his culinary memoir, Gumbo Life<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday\u2019s\nsessions take place at the Lafayette County Courthouse with a reading by Salvator Scibona<\/strong>, as well as at the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library<\/strong>,\nOff Square Books, and an in-store performance by Willy Vlautin<\/strong> and Justin\nPeter Kinkel-Schuster<\/strong> at The End of\nAll Music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n2019 Oxford Conference for the Book Children\u2019s\nBook Festival<\/strong> (CBF) will be held on Friday, March 29, at the Ford Center for Performing Arts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nfirst-grade author will be Dan Santat<\/strong>,\nfor his book After the\nFall<\/em><\/strong>. The fifth-grade author is Sharon Draper<\/strong>, for Out of My Mind<\/em><\/strong>. Area first graders will visit with\nthe author at the Ford Center at 9 am, and fifth graders will visit with their\nauthor at 10:30 am. There will be a book signing by the authors that afternoon\nfrom 3\u20134 pm at Square Books, Jr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ngoal of the Children\u2019s Book Festival is to give each child a book of his or her\nown, which they will read along with classmates and their teacher during the\nschool year. The Children\u2019s Book Festival serves more than 1,200 area\nfirst-graders and fifth-graders from schools in Lafayette County<\/strong> and Oxford<\/strong>.\nCommittees made up of local school librarians, teachers, and representatives\nfrom the Lafayette County Literacy\nCouncil<\/strong> (sponsor of the first grade), Junior\nAuxiliary<\/strong> (sponsor of the fifth grade), and Square Books, Jr. choose the\nbook each year. The Conference then invites those authors to present programs\nto each grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All sessions of the Oxford Conference for the Book are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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