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April 4-6, 2025

Word of South

Skip Horack

Skip Horack is the author of the story collection The Southern Cross, winner of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Fiction Prize; and the novels The Eden Hunter (a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice) and The Other Joseph. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and he is currently director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University.