The Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration (NLCC) is an annual humanities festival held at Copiah-Lincoln Community College's Natchez campus, featuring authors, filmmakers, and scholars whose work engages with Southern history, race, and culture — with recurring focus on writers including Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, and historians of the Natchez District. Founded in 1990, it is one of the longest-running literary festivals in Mississippi.
Quick facts
- ·The NLCC has operated since approximately 1990 and is a named, annually occurring literary event with documented history.
- ·It specifically engages with the literary geography of the Natchez region.
- ·Verify current operational status — small academic festivals can experience funding gaps.
- ·This is the primary named literary institution in Natchez that falls outside the existing catalog.
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