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April 4-6, 2025

Word of South

Mark Mustian

Mark Mustian is the founder of the Word of South Festival, and a former Tallahassee City Commissioner. His novel The Gendarme was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Award for Writing and has been published in ten languages. He’ll be reading from and discussing his new novel, Boy With Wings, at this year’s Word of South, where he’ll be appearing with the keyboardist Daniel Bedrosian.