30th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference
30th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference
Daytona Beach Resort & Conference Center
Daytona Beach, Florida
March 30- April 1, 2017
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization of over 200 members worldwide, invites paper proposals on topics related to Rawlings’s life and works.
Topics might include but are not limited to the following:
Rawlings and Modernism
Rawlings and other authors – and her place in American literature
Landscape/environment and character in Rawlings’s fiction and/or non-fiction
The role of food in Rawlings’s Cross Creek, The Yearling, or Cross Creek Cookery.
Rawlings and film
Rawlings and fine art
Rawlings’s Florida friends, such as Idella Parker and Dessie Smith Prescott
Rawlings and Maxwell Perkins and/or the Scribners
Sex and gender roles in Rawlings’s fiction
Rawlings’s political attitudes
Rawlings and race
Rawlings and Florida
Rawlings and Southern literature
Rawlings and the literature of place
Please send 1-2 page abstracts for 20-minute papers to
Dr. Leslie Poole, Rollins College
The deadline for submission is Feb. 1, 2017