Y'all, are you excited for our first ever Water Valley Literary Festival?

9:00 AM – Writing Young Adult and Children’s Literature 
Amy Carlisle Deluca (pen name Amy Patrick) 
Linda Williams Jackson 
In conversation with Chris Goodwin, moderator 

10:00 AM – Writing Water Valley History 
Calvin Hawkins, author of Under the Dusty Sands, a history of African Americans in Yalobusha County, in conversation with Joseph Gurner 

11:00 AM - Hubert Creekmore’s Literary Life  
Mary Alice Welty White 
Suzanne Marrs 
Pip Gordon 
Michael Pickard 
Cynthia Kennedy 
In conversation with Annette Trefzer, moderator 

12:15 PM DECLARATION OF A MISSISSIPPI HUBERT CREEKMORE DAY 
Mayor Tommy Reynolds and Representative Sam Creekmore 

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 – Writing Fiction  
Sean Ennis 
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow 
Margaret-Love Denman 
In conversation with Kellene O’Hara, moderator

3:30 PM – Writing Biography 
E. Stanely Godbold, Jr. author of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: Power and Human Rights, 1975-2000, in conversation with Brandon Presley

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM - Reception  

Books will be for sale through Violet Valley bookstore.  Writers will sign their books.