The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Jeffrey Dale Lofton

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Jeffrey Dale Lofton is co-host of the Inside Voices podcast with Robert Gwaltney. His debut novel, Red Clay Suzie, was Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and twice named an Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association. He is 2024 Georgia Author of the Year, the Pat Conroy Literary Center Spring 2024 Writer-in-Residence, and a Senior Advisor at the Library of Congress.

 

Schedule

11:00 am to 11:45 am

State Capitol, House Chamber

Rednecks

with Taylor Brown and moderator Jeffrey Dale Lofton

 

12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

State Capitol, House Committee Room 6

Inside Voices from the Louisiana Book Festival

with Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton

Podcast: Inside Voices

Listen to Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview hot new authors in association with Well Read Magazine.

Get the inside scoop on your favorite authors and listen to them answer questions you didn’t know to ask and answers that are as enthralling as entertaining. Sit back and settle in as Robert and Jeffrey enter into conversation with creative and fun new authors.  

Find new books, get detailed insights, and have a great time!