The Oxford Conference for the Book is a three-day gathering inaugurated in 1993 and held annually, except in 1997 and 2020. The event takes place in Oxford and on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Since its inauguration, the conference has celebrated books, writing, and reading, and has also dealt with practical concerns on which the literary arts and the humanities depend, including literacy, freedom of expression, and the book trade itself.
Beginning in 1999, the conference has been open to the public without charge.
The 2024 Oxford Conference for the Book (OCB) will feature several sessions that explore a variety of topics. The dates for the 2024 conference are April 3, 4, and 5. Each conference presents between twenty and forty speakers, mostly writers (poets, literary fiction, popular fiction, and nonfiction authors, academic authors, journalists, children’s authors, critics, reviewers), but also editors, agents, publishers, librarians, literacy volunteers and organizers, booksellers, bloggers, and book technology experts. Each year’s roster of speakers is interdisciplinary and diverse.
