Y'all, are you excited for our first ever Water Valley Literary Festival? Save the date for September 27. The draft schedule is below. Additional panelists to come.

Tentative schedule:

9:00 AM - YA and Children’s literature
Chris Goodwin, moderator
Amy Carlisle Deluca (pen name Amy Patrick)
Linda Williams Jackson

10:00 AM - Water Valley History
Calvin Hawkins, in conversation with Joseph Gurner.

11:00 AM - Hubert Creekmore Roundtable Q&A
Mary Alice Welty White
Suzanne Marrs
Annette Trefzer
Pip Gordon

12:30 PM - Lunch Conversation
Robert Fieseler, author of American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives, in conversation with Jaime Harker

2:00 PM - Fiction Panel
Kellene O’Hara, moderator
Sean Ennis
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
Margaret-Love Denman

3:30 PM - Conversation between Brandon Presley and E. Stanely Godbold, Jr. author of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: Power and Human Rights, 1975-2000