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Thank you to everyone who attended! Stay tuned for photos and more from an amazing night.

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We are thrilled to welcome Ace Atkins as our Literatini 2025 Special Guest! Ace Atkins is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels and numerous short stories. A former college football player and newspaper reporter, he’s a recent recipient of the Richard Wright Award for excellence in Southern Literature and a member of the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. He lives with his wife Angela and two children in Oxford, Mississippi.

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