SouthWord Schedule
Friday - April 3rd
UTC University Center
9:00-10:00 The Relevance of Writing: The Role of Southern Lit in Modern America
Tom Franklin, Rodney Jones and Wyatt Prunty
10:00-11:00 He Said/She Said: Writing Across Gender
Rita Dove, Robert Ray Morgan and Steve Yarbrough
11:00-12:00 What's Cooking: Food in Fiction
Beverly Lowry, John Reed and Josephine Humphreys
12:00-2:00 Luncheon and FSW Presentation of Award Winners
2:00-3:00 Telling Our Own Stories: Importance of Diversity in Southern Lit
Silas House, Randall Kenan and Rita Dove
3:00-4:00 The Ties that Bind: The Blessing and Curse of Family in
Southern Lit
Tom Franklin, Beth Henley and George Singleton
4:00-5:00 Works in Progress: a Reading
Richard Bausch, Bobbie Ann Mason and Ron Rash
Authors will sign their books after their panel session
7:00 Keynote dinner at Westin Hotel (Speaker to be announced soon)
Saturday - April 4th
UTC University Center
9:00-10:00 Shop Talk: The Craft of Writing
Elizabeth Cox, Tony Earley and Allen Weir
10:00-11:00 Works in Progress: A Reading
Tony Earley, Randall Kenan and Jill McCorkle
11:00-12:00 What's So Funny? Humor in Southern Lit
Roy Blount, Clyde Edgerton and Tim Gautreaux
12:00-2:00 Luncheon with the award of Barnett Prize for Local
Distinguished Author
2:30 - 3:30 They Shall Inherit the Earth: Environmental Topics in Southern Lit
Maurice Manning, Ron Rash and Silas House
3:30-4:30 Beyond the Agrarians: Urban versus Rural as it Relates
to Social Identity in Southern Lit
Beverly Lowry, Bobbie Ann Mason and Steve Yarbrough
Authors will sign their books after their panel session
Saturday Evening Dinners at Private Homes with authors

Ticket Info
2-day ticket plus Keynote dinner - $150.
Friday, 1-day ticket - $60.
(Includes luncheon. Does not include keynote dinner.)
Sat. 1-day ticket - $60
(Includes luncheon.)
Keynote Dinner - $75
Table of 8 - $600
Student 2-day ticket - $40
Student 1-day ticket - $25
(Student tickets do not include luncheons.)
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