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Honors
• Beautiful Dreamers has been selected as The Foreword Review's Indie 2024 Gold Medal Winner for Literary Fiction.
• Beautiful Dreamers won the 2024 New Mexico Book Award for Historical Fiction.
• Minrose was in New Orleans on Sept. 29 to accept the William Wisdom/William Faulkner Books-in-Progress Award for the book she's working on now: Rescue. The award is given by the Pirates' Alley Faulkner Society. See details below.
• In June, Minrose received the Society for the Study of Southern Literature's Richard Beale Davis Distinguished Lifetime Service to Southern Letters Award. |
News
Events
| Jan. 31, 2026 |
Panel on Literary Fiction, Homegrown Literary Event, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus, Long Beach, Mississippi |
| June 27, 2025 |
Reading from Beautiful Dreamers, European Southern Literature Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| Nov. 2, 2024 |
9:45 a.m., panel; 11 a.m., signing, Capitol Building, Louisiana
Book Festival, Baton Rouge, LA |
| Oct. 30, 2024 |
6 p.m., Octavia Books, New Orleans, LA |
| Oct. 29, 2024 |
6 p.m., Pass Christian Books, Pass Christian, MS |
| Oct. 24-26, 2024 |
Time of reading to be announced, Eudora Welty Literary Festival, Columbus, MS |
| Sept. 29, 2024 |
7:30 p.m., Pirates' Alley Faulkner Society black-tie gala, Ursuline Convent, New Orleans, LA |
| Sept. 28, 2024 |
2 p.m., McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro, NC |
| Sept. 27, 2024 |
6:30 p.m., Flyleaf Books, in conversation with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Chapel Hill, NC |
| Sept. 17, 2024 |
4 p.m., Reed’s Gumtree Book Shop, Tupelo, MS |
| Sept. 16, 2024 |
5:30 p.m., Square Books, joint event with Jamie Quatro, Oxford, MS |
| Sept. 14, 2024 |
10:45-11:45, Room 201 H, Capitol Building, panel on Southern Fiction, Mississippi Book Festival, Jackson, MS |
| Sept. 12, 2024 |
7 p.m., Pass Christian Books, Pass Christian, MS (postponed) |
| Sept. 8, 2024 |
2 p.m., Books on the Bosque, Albuquerque, NM |
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