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SUMMARY:Mississippi Songwriters Festival Songwriting Workshop with Michael Farris Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning author, screenwriter, and musician Michael Farris Smith for a free workshop focusing on stories across songwriting, fiction, and film.\nAn award-winning author, screenwriter, and musician, Smith represents a powerful intersection of music, literature, and storytelling that reflects our state’s cultural legacy.\nRegister Here\n \nAn award-winning author, screenwriter, and musician, Smith’s novels have been named on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, and numerous other outlets, and his work has been translated into ten languages. He wrote the screen adaptations for two of his novels, Desperation Road, a top ten international release on Netflix, and The Fighter, titled for the screen as Rumble Through the Dark, hailed by The New York Times as “an answered prayer of style and substance.” With his band The Smokes, he wrote and released the record Lostville, produced by Grammy nominee Jimbo Mathus. Salvation South described the songs of Lostville as “feeling like they could be soundtracks to his novels.” He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and daughters.\nDon’t miss this opportunity to learn from a true master of the craft.\n
URL:https://www.msarts.org/events/mississippi-songwriters-festival-songwriting-workshop-2026/
CATEGORIES:Classes,Music,Songwriters Festival,Workshop
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