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Mark Your Calendars! The Thirty-Second Oxford Conference for the Book will be held on March 25, 26, and 27, 2026!

Mark Your Calendars! The Thirty-First Oxford Conference for the Book will be held on April 2, 3, and 4, 2025!

The dates are set for the Thirtieth Oxford Conference for the Book: April 3, 4, and 5, 2024. Mark your calendars!

Congratulations to two authors participating in the upcoming Oxford Conference for the Book (March 29-31). Both Jonathan Escoffery and Alejandro Varela are PEN America Literary Awards Longlisters. Jonathan Escoffery has made the longlist for both the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the 2023 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection for his book, … Continued

Among literature enthusiasts, it’s no secret that Oxford, Mississippi, has long been a magnet for writers. This spring, their numbers will multiply as more than thirty of the nation’s leading and emerging authors, poets, scholars, and artists gather for the annual Oxford Conference for the Book. Across the University of Mississippi campus and the city’s … Continued