Faulkner Literary Luncheon features Judge Mike Mills as guest speaker

The annual Faulkner Literary Fest New Albany luncheon celebrating writers young and old will be Friday, September 27, 2024, 11:30 noon at the First Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.

US District Judge Mike Mills is this year’s guest speaker, said event chairman Lynn Madden. Another feature of the event is the announcement of winners of the Literary Competition. This year there are more than 400 entries which come from countries throughout the world and throughout the US. The Competition awards cash prizes in the following categories: novel, short story, poetry, one-act play and student short story. Prizes will also be awarded to winners of the elementary poetry writing workshop held recently at the museum.

Judge Mills understands the value of a well told tale and is a published writer of a collection of short stories and essays as well as many legal articles. Twice Told Tombigbee Tales is his book, and more recently published articles include Josephine (A Slave) V. The State of Mississippi, Dry September, Revisited, and Forty Years Wandering in the Law. He is also a member of the June Bug Society.

Judge Mills has presented at international seminars on the Rule of Law in Armenia,Indonesia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Philippines, Croatia, Montenegro, Nigeria, Hungary, Ghana,El Salvador, and other countries. He is a former adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law and is a frequent speaker at law schools and civic events. In his free time, he works on the family farm in Itawamba where he maintains a log cabin built in the 1840s and where he is building his own church – the First Transcendental Full Gospel Church of Itawamba County. It has one-member. He also enjoys playing with the best cover band in the South, the Mississippi June Bugs.

Tickets to the luncheon are $20 and can be purchased at the Union County Heritage Museum at 114 Cleveland Street, New Albany, 662-538—0014. Deadline to purchase a ticket is Wednesday, September 25.

Jill Smith, Director
Union County Heritage Museum
114 Cleveland Street
New Albany,MS 38652