Southern Writers, Southern Writing

is a University of Mississippi Graduate Student Conference held in conjunction with the Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.

The graduate students in the departments of English and Southern Studies invite you to submit abstracts on or about the South. Accepted papers will be presented in Oxford, MS on the 21st, 22nd, & 23rd of July 2005.

Topics for papers or panels are not restricted to literature & may include:

• Race, gender and class and identity
• Materialist and political approaches to texts
• Ecocriticism, nature writing, and the southern landscape
• Religion and spirituality in southern culture and writing
• Folklore, material culture, oral culture, and community
• Creative works that explore southerness or the South

Please send one to two-page abstracts of critical work or entire creative works to:
Southern Writers, Southern Writing
210 Somerville Hall
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677

Reading limit is twenty minutes; please include your summer address with your submission. The deadline for submissions is May 27, 2005. Inquiries or ideas for panels may be e-mailed to: smonroe@olemiss.edu

Those who wish to have their submission considered for the Colby Kullman Prize and other conference awards, please submit your entire paper or creative submission by May 27 2005.

More information will be sent along with your registration materials; you may also check out the most current information at:
http://www.olemiss.edu/conf/swsw.