Write On, Mississippi!

Join these two Pat Conroy loving, Southern novelists for a podcast on WRITE ON, MISSISSIPPI! as they discuss Cassandra's new memoir, TELL ME A STORY. Cassandra King Conroy is an award-winning author of five novels, a book of nonfiction, numerous short stories, magazine articles, and essays. She has taught creative writing on the college level, conducted corporate writing seminars, and worked as a...

Join Mississippian John F. Marszalek III and New Orleans transplant, Robert "Bobby" W. Fieseler as they discuss John's new book, COMING OUT OF THE MAGNOLIA CLOSET: SAME SEX COUPLES IN MISSISSIPPI and Queer culture in the South. John F. Marszalek III is a National Certified Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor in Mississippi. He has been a counselor educator for over 20 years and is curren...

Join three giants in the world of Afrofuturist comics in this compelling conversation between two Mississippi natives, Tim Fielder and John Jennings, along with University Press of MIssissippi contributing writer, Donna-lyn Washington. Tim Fielder is an Illustrator, concept designer, cartoonist, and animator born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He has a lifelong love...

Dr. Nancy Bristow joins C. Liegh McInnis in conversation about her new book, STEEPED IN THE BLOOD OF RACISM Nancy K. Bristow has taught at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, for thirty years, where she is a Distinguished Professor of History, serves on the Leadership Team of the Race and Pedagogy Institute, and helped found the African American Studies Program. An award-winn...

Author, Michael Farris Smith, sits down to talk with his buddy, PJ Lee, about his newest award-winning novel, BLACKWOOD. Michael Farris Smith is the award-winning author of  Blackwood ,  The Fighter ,  Desperation Road , and  Rivers . His novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with  Esquire, Southern Living, Book Riot,  and numerous others, and...

Authors Angie Thomas & Nic Stone share a conversation with Tonja Murphy about life, writing & navigating new norms in the midst of a global pandemic.  Angie Thomas was born, raised, and still resides in Jackson, Mississippi as indicated by her accent. She is a former teen rapper whose greatest accomplishment was an article about her in Right-On Magazine with a picture included. S...

C. Liegh McInnis, Kiese Laymon, & Charlie Braxton join in conversation to discuss Richard Wright's BLACK BOY on the 75th anniversary of its publication Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mississippi Film Office Director, Nina Parikh, leads a conversation between author, Michael Farris Smith, and filmmakers, Graham & Parker Phillips to discuss adapting Smith's book, THE FIGHTER, to film.  Graham and Parker Phillips are brother writer/directors based out of New York and Los Angeles. Parker studied literature at Bucknell University while Graham studied U.S. History at Prince...

Former US Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey, talks with award-winning author, Kiese Laymon about her new memoir, MEMORIAL DRIVE. PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LEMURIA BOOKSTORE OF JACKSON, MS  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wayétu Moore joins Dr. Ebony Lumumba in conversation about her new memoir, THE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, THE WOMEN Wayétu Moore is the author of the novel She Would Be King, named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly, and BuzzFeed. She is the founder of One Moore Book, a nonprofit organization that creates and distributes culturally relevant books for underrepresented...

Brittney Morris is the author of  SLAY . She is also the founder and former president of the Boston University Creative Writing Club. She holds a BA in economics. Brittney spends her spare time playing video games, slaying at DDR, and enjoying the Seattle rain from her apartment. She lives with her husband Steven, who would rather enjoy the rain from a campsite in the woods because he hasn’t...

A native of Holly Springs, Mississippi, Roy is the Executive Director and one of the founders of the Hill Country Project. He was active in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, first as a Freedom School student (whose teacher was Hill Country co-founder Aviva Futorian) and then as a general organizer. Roy earned his bachelor's degree in Sociology at Brandeis University in 1970. Contin...

Ron Rash shares a conversation with Ellen Daniels about his newest short story collection, IN THE VALLEY. Presented in partnership with Lemuria Bookstore of Jackson, MS.  RON RASH is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River,...

In Episode 2 of “Uncomfortable”, Holly Lange and Dr. Ebony Lumumba discuss more in depth a few books discussed in Episode 1. Some of the titles discussed are Toni Morrison’s PLAYING IN THE DARK, Michelle Alexander’s THE NEW JIM CROW, Ibram X. Kendi’s STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, Angie Thomas’s THE HATE U GIVE, and MORE!  Tune in for more of the conversation on books dealing with racism, anti-r...

“Uncomfortable,” a podcast discussing racism and anti-racism through books, articles and various sources for all ages. Several contemporary authors featured on the reading list discussed in Episode 1 will appear in future conversations. Holly Lange, Executive Director of the Mississippi Book Festival, visits with Dr. Ebony Lumumba, First Lady of Jackson, Tougaloo College Associate Professor of Eng...

A native of Arlington, Texas, Shaun Hamill holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in the dark woods of Alabama with his wife, his in-laws, and his dog.  A Cosmology of Monsters  is his first novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard Ford is the author of the Bascombe novels, which include  The Sportswriter  and its sequels,  Independence Day --the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award-- The Lay of the Land , and  New York Times  bestseller  Let Me Be Frank with You . His other works include bestselling novel  Canada  and the short story collections  Rock Springs and  A Multitu...

Chanelle Benz has published short stories in Guernica, Granta.com , Electric Literature, The American Reader, Fence, and The Cupboard, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize. Her story collection The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead was published in 2017 by Ecco. It was named a Best Book of 2017 by the San Francisco Chronicle and one of Electric Literature’s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 20...

Mesha Maren is the author of the novel  Sugar Run   (Algonquin Books). Her short stories and essays can be read in  Tin House ,  The Oxford American ,  The Guardian, Crazyhorse ,  Triquarterly, The Southern Review, Ecotone, Sou’wester ,  Hobart ,  Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial , and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2015 Th...

Juliet Grames is SVP and Associate Publisher at Soho Press, where she also curates the Soho Crime imprint of critically acclaimed international and multicultural crime fiction. She has been a book editor for fourteen years, the last nine of which have been at Soho. She is also the author of the novel The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Glory Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a Brooklyn-based book club and online community that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. In fall 2017, she organized the first-ever Well-Read Black Girl Literary Festival. She has worked as a creative strategist for over ten years at startups and cultural institutions, including Kickstarter, The Webby Awards and the New Y...

Lisa Howorth was born and grew up in Washington, D.C., where her new novel is set in 1959. She is the author of the 2014 novel, FLYING SHOES, and she has written for the Oxford American and Garden & Gun. Howorth taught art history at the University of Mississippi, receiving the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1996, and a MacDowell Fellowship in 2007. In Oxford in 1979, she and h...

Mary Miller grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Big World and Always Happy Hour, as well as the novels The Last Days of California and Biloxi. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, the Oxford American, New Stories from the South, Norton's Seagull Book of Stories, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, and many others. She is a forme...

Mamta Chaudhry's fiction, poetry, and feature articles have been published in the Miami Review, The Illustrated Weekly of India, The Telegraph, The Statesman, Writer's Digest, and The Rotarian, among others. She lives with her husband in Coral Gables, Florida, and they spend part of each year in India and France. Haunting Paris is her first novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

S. J. Rozan, a native New Yorker, is the author of sixteen novels and six dozen short stories. Her work has won the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity awards for Best Novel and the Edgar for Best Short Story. She’s also the recipient of the Japanese Maltese Falcon and the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...