| Patrons
- The Gertrude C. Ford Foundation
- Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis, Jr., Oxford
- Aubrey and Ella Lucas, Hattiesburg
- Leila Wynn, Greenville
- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shellnut, Pass Christian
- Mr. and Mrs. William A. Percy II, Greenville
Special Friends
- Community Foundation of Jackson
| Institutions
- Belhaven College, Jackson
- Blue Mountain College, Blue Mountain
- Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Wesson
- Delta State University, Cleveland
- East Central Community College, Decatur
- Hinds Community College, Raymond
- Holmes Community College, Goodman
- Itawamba Community College, Fulton
- Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel
- Jackson State University, Jackson
- Millsaps College, Jackson
- Mississippi College, Clinton
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Perkinston
- Mississippi State University
- Mississippi University for Women, Columbus
- Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena
- Northwest Mississippi Community College, Senatobia
- Pinkston-Seablue, Inc., Greenwood
- Rust College, Holly Springs
- Square Books, Oxford
- Tougaloo College, Jackson
- University of Mississippi, Oxford
- University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
- University Press of Mississippi, Jackson
- William Carey College, Hattiesburg
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