Revival: Lost Southern Voices literary festival kicks off at Decatur Library

The 10th Annual Revival: Lost Southern Voices (RLSV) festival will be held March 19 – 21 at the Decatur Library.

A collaboration between Georgia State University Perimeter College and the Georgia Center for the Book, RLSV begins Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m. with a keynote event: Shining a Light in the Dungeon: Honoring Unappreciated Voices in the Hip Hop South, with Regina Bradley in conversation with Monica Weatherly.

Friday sessions feature Carolyn Curry and Tony Grooms exploring the craft of historical fiction, and Donna Coffey Little with poet Vivian Mary Carroll celebrating voices of the Cherokee Nation.

Saturday opens with Valerie Frey highlighting Georgia’s historical recipes and foodways, and closes with a panel honoring students of Creative Writing courses in Georgia prisons and the journal Beyond Bars that helped them claim their creative voice. Each panel of experts will seek to explore and expand the meaning of the terms lost, Southern, and voice.

Revival: Lost South­ern Voic­es cel­e­brates his­tor­i­cal­ly exclud­ed, erased, or mar­gin­al­ized South­ern voic­es. Dur­ing this annu­al con­fer­ence, invit­ed pre­sen­ters dis­cuss South­ern authors or artists whose works are out-of-print or oth­er­wise do not receive the atten­tion they deserve.

View the full schedule of events here.