OCB 2026 Thursday Library Lunch

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Join the 32nd Oxford Conference for the Book on Thursday, March 26 for a Welcome Lunch in the Baxter Room of the J.D. Williams Library, on the University of Mississippi campus, hosted by University of Mississippi Friends of the Library.

Lunch is at 11 a.m., followed by a special conference event at 11:30 a.m., presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation—NBF Presents: Balancing Acts. Join National Book Award–honored authors Camonghne Felix (Build Yourself a Boat, 2019 Longlister; and most recently, Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom) and novelist Sarah Thankam Mathews (All This Could Be Different, 2022 Fiction Finalist) for readings and conversation about balancing the political, the personal, and the fictional in one’s creative projects and writing processes.

Moderated by A. H. Jerriod Avant, author of Muscadine and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi.

The lunch and program are free but please help us plan by letting us know if you will attend.

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