Kia Corthron will appear with Tom Franklin on the panel Stories of Small-Town America: Two Novels.
Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Kia Corthon‘s first novel is The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, in which four boys from small-town America will culminate in an explosive and devastating encounter between their two families. Tom Franklin‘s novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town.