9:00 am to 9:45 am
Capitol Park Museum Auditorium
Louisiana Writer Award Ceremony Honoring Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Presented by the Louisiana Center for Book

10:00 am to 11:00 am
Capitol Park Museum Auditorium
Everybody Has a South: Grit Lit
Frank Bill, Back to the Dirt: A Novel
Daren Dean, Roads: A Novel
Meagan Lucas, Here in the Dark: Stories

11:00 am to Noon
House Committee Room 3
Emerging Women Authors from the South
Monica Brashears, House of Cotton: A Novel
Quinn Connor, Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves: A Novel
Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah: A Novel
E.M. Tran, Daughters of the New Year: A Novel
with moderator Karen O'Connell

11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Library Seminar Center
A Conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
with moderator Tad Bartlett

11:15 am to Noon
Capitol Park Museum Auditorium
A Conversation with Rodney Barnes
Brannon Costello talks with award-winning writer, producer, and comic book creator Rodney Barnes whose work includes comic books such as Killadelphia, Blacula: Rise of the King, and Nita Hawes’ Nightmare Blog, and the HBO series Winning Time: Rise of the Lakers.

11:30 am to 12:30 pm
House Committee Room 4
Fiction: Men Write About Social Issues, Exploration, Growth, and Loss
Larry Gray, The House on Esplanade
Philip Jason, Window Eyes
Toby LeBlanc, Dark Roux
Amos Jasper Wright IV, Petrochemical Nocturne: A Novel
with moderator Chris Tusa

12:15 pm to 1:00 pm
Capitol Park Museum Auditorium
Such Kindness: A Novel
André Dubus III

12:30 pm to 1:15 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E
The Auburn Conference
with Tom Piazza and moderator David Johnson

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm
House Committee Room 4
Fiction: Women Write About Social Issues, Acceptance, Survival, and Forgiveness
Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos: A Novel
Nancy Crochiere, Graceland: A Novel
Jamilla Minnicks, Moonrise over New Jessup: A Novel
Katy Simpson Smith, The Weeds: A Novel
with moderator Tracy Carr

1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
State Library, Fourth Floor
Autofiction: Life Meets Fiction
Christee Gabour Atwood, Calling Home
Teresa Tuminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
Jeffrey Dale Lofton, Red Clay Suzie
with moderator Gary Richards

1:15 pm to 2:00 pm
Capitol Park Museum Auditorium
Flash Fiction America: 73 Very Short Stories
John Dufresne

1:30 pm to 2:15 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E
Pen Pals: A Couple of Co-Author Couples
with Sam and Sarah Hyde and Ayan and Mike Rubin

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
House Committee Room 4
Fiction: Courageous Women Navigate Fate, Politics, and War
with Kimberly Brock, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare: A Novel
Pamela Binnings Ewen, Émilienne : A Novel of Belle Époque Paris
A.D. Nauman, Down the Steep
Irina Zhorov, Lost Believers: A Novel
with moderator Megan Holt

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
State Library Seminar Center
Afrofuturism: What It Is and Why It Matters
‘Afrofuturism’ is a term coined by Mark Dery in a 1994 essay entitled “Black to the Future,” but what exactly does it mean and how is it shaping culture today? Join noted comic book creators Rodney Barnes (Killadelphia, Monarch) and Rob Guillory (Mosely, Farmhand) and assistant professor of English at Southern University Dr. Taylor Scott as they discuss this important movement.

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
House Committee Room 3
Good Things Come in Small Packages: Short Fiction Exploring Dreams, Loss, Love, and Life
Joy E. Rancatore, Every Good Thing - Carolina's Legacy: A Short Story Collection
Fatima Shaik, What Went Missing and What Got Found
Amos Jasper Wright IV, Nobody Knows How It Got This Good: Short Stories from the Deep South

2:30 pm to 3:15 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E
One Book, One Festival: Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
Gary Richards