12th Annual
                          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 exploring
Southern
culture. Accepted papers will be presented in Oxford,
Mississippi, July
20th through 22nd, 2006.
  
Topics for papers or panels are not restricted to literature
& may include:

Ecocriticism, nature writing, and the Southern
     landscape
Religion, gothic, and the grotesque
Folklore, material culture, and community
Oral culture, music, and Southern foodways
The South in global contexts
Race, gender, class, and identity

Please send 200 to 300 word abstracts of critical work or
entire creative
works to:

Kacy Tillman, ktillman_at_olemiss.edu [email submissions
preferred; write SWSW in subject line]
    
OR
                                     
Southern Writers, Southern Writing
c/o Sarah Wurgler
308 Somerville Hall
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
 
Reading limit is 15 minutes. Please include your summer
address with your submission.
More information is available at:
http://www.olemiss.edu/conf/swsw/
The deadline for submissions is April 23, 2006.

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