Many attendees of the first session of the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration sat back and relaxed, while others like Annie Case sat on the edge of their seat focused on every word of Mississippi author Josephine Haxton Thursday afternoon as she read her essay &uot;Real and Imaginary Places: Natchez, for Example.&uot; Haxton, who writes under the pen name Ellen Douglas, was honored by having the NLCC writing workshops named after her.