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Oct 22, 2023
Videos of This Weekend's Symposium
Did you miss the symposium Oct. 19-21? Never fear, you can watch the archived videos. Each heading is linked to the video in our Facebook group.
Thursday, Oct. 19, 7:30pmKaty Simpson Smith, The Weeds
Friday, Oct.20, 9am-12pmLee Durkee,Stalking ShakespeareMaurice Carlos Ruffin,The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love YouDe’Shawn Charles Winslow,Decent PeopleK. Iver,Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
Friday, Oct.20,1:30-4:30pmAnn Fisher-Wirth,Paradise is JaggedHalle Hill,Good Women: StoriesClaude Wilkinson,Soon Done with the CrossesEphemera Prize Reading
Saturday Oct.21,9:30am-12:30pmEthel Morgan Smith,Path to GraceChristie Collins,The Art of Coming UndoneEllen Ann Fentress,The Steps We TakeExodus Brownlow,I'm Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now
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Aug 5, 2023
We're excited to announce our full line-up of authors, minus the Welty Prize who will be announced later. We hope to have a more detailed schedule soon. Photos and book cover images can be found on our website, where author bios and links will also soon reside. As always, all symposium sessions will be free and open to the public in Mississippi University for Women's historic Poindexter Hall, Columbus, Mississippi.
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Nov 3, 2022
This year's symposium has come and gone, but you can still watch each panel on our archived video.
Keynote with Steve YarbroughFriday Morning with Derrick Harriell, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, Adam Vines, and Holly Goddard JonesFriday Afternoon with Olivia Clare Friedman, Chantal James, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, and this year's Ephemera Prize WinnersSaturday Morning with Annette Trefzer, T. K. Lee, Earl S. Braggs, and C. T. Salazar
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Oct 18, 2021
It’s time once again for the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Oct. 21-23. This year, we will be live in-person at The W in Whitfield Hall and live-streaming on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/weltysymposium
All times are Central Daylight Time, and videos of the sessions will be archived to our group’s media.
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Oct 6, 2020
In just over 2 weeks, we will host our first-ever virtual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium. All sessions will be live on our facebook group’s newsfeed. To sign up for each session (not required, but you’ll get reminders) go to our events page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/weltysymposium/
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Aug 2, 2019
We’re getting ready for this year’s symposium! Check out our authors at www.muw.edu/welty — more info on each, coming soon!
Kiese Laymon — Heavy: An American Memoir
Kendra Allen — When You Learn the AlphabetT. J. Anderson III — Devonte Travels the Sorry RouteJohn Bateman — Who Killed Buster Sparkle?Tina Barr — Green TargetAnn Fisher-Wirth — The Bones of Winter BirdsBrandon Hobson — Where the Dead Sit TalkingCary Holladay — Brides in the SkyAshley M. Jones — Dark // ThingMary Miller — BiloxiChristin Marie Taylor — Labor PainsKen Wells — Gumbo Life, Tales from the Roux Bayou
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Sep 28, 2017
I had fun walking downtown Columbus MS distributing this year’s flyers this morning! This afternoon, I’ll hit campus. Look for one near you, soon!
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Aug 25, 2017
Hotels for 10/19-10/21
Tip: if you're traveling in from out of town, you may want to book your rooms early! Mississippi State is having their homecoming on our weekend, and the hotels are filling up. Last I heard, though there were still rooms at the new Holiday Inn Express and the newly remodeled Wingate. There may be individual rooms at other hotels, too, and there may be cancellations closer to the date, so it pays to reserve early and to keep trying. I haven't checked the B&B's, but Columbus has quite a few very nice ones.
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Aug 10, 2017
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Mary Miller at Greenlight Bookstore, 1/11/17
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Aug 10, 2017
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She decided a long time ago she didn’t want to be a careful person, that she didn’t want to live her life constantly worrying about what other people thought of her. Of course she does worry, she does nothing but worry, and all her lack of care amounts to is that she offends people constantly and tests them with her inappropriateness and expects them to love her for it.
— Mary Miller, from“Instructions,” Always Happy Hour: Stories
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Mary Miller will read at the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Oct. 19-21, 2017
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Aug 10, 2017
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Genre: fictionSetting:Birmingham, also possibly Georgia (?), present day# of Pages: 336Rating: 5/5
The skinny:Delightfully funny and irreverent, but not without weight.
The fat:Wallace manages to write a protagonist who is pathetic without being depressing and hapless without being hopeless. Edsel Bronfman is an especially endearing Everyman, surrounded by a riotously colorful cast of characters which includes his shady drug-dealing neighbors, a ubiquitous policewoman, his lively but demented mother, and the eclectic occupants of the Cranston building. It’s definitely whimsical, but it’s not frivolous–there is a lot of truth here, easily swallowed alongside spoonfuls of narrative sugar. The most fun I’ve had reading a book in a good long while. Get your hands on it as soon as it comes out.
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Daniel Wallace will be the keynote writer at the 29th annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, MS, Oct. 19-21. http://www.muw.edu/welty
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Aug 10, 2017
Announcing this year’s Ephemera Prize.High school students in Mississippi and surrounding states may submit an essay, poem, or story on our theme. 5 winners will read their work at the symposium and receive a $200 cash award. For full details, see http://www.muw.edu/welty/ephemeraprize
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Aug 10, 2016
High school writers in grades 10-12 from Mississippi or nearby Alabama may enter 1-3 poems, a story, or an essay on the theme:“Overcoming the Silence: To speak out when ‘It warrants no stir’” based on Eudora Welty’s story“The Demonstrators.”
Deadline: September 12, 2016
email submissions to: [emailprotected]
Judges: Welty Symposium authors David Armand and Paulette Boudreaux
For full details on contest rules and a high school lesson plan go to http://www.muw.edu/welty/ephemeraprize
There is no contest fee, and the winners will read at the Eudora Welty Writers Symposium, October 20-22, at Mississippi University for Women.
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Aug 5, 2016
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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K68uPx7aJkk)
Our MFA students are featured interviewing 4 authors from the 2015 Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium at our Short Residency. The half-hour video was initially broadcast on Mississippi Public Broadcasting in June 2016. #MPB #Welty #TheW
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Last year’s interview feature is now on YouTube!
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Sep 2, 2015
Ephemera Prize Deadline Approacheth
It’s September and there’s only a week remaining before the deadline for the 2nd annual Ephemera Prize open to students in grades 10-12. There’s still time to polish that story, poem, or essay! Email submissions accepted and preferred. Details:http://www.muw.edu/welty/ephemeraprize
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Aug 14, 2015
Judges for the 2015 Ephemera Prize are:
Michael Kardos, author of Before He Finds Her, The Three-Day Affair, and One Last Good Time, as well as the textbook The Art and Craft of Fiction.
TJ Jarrett, author of the poetry collectionsZion and Ain’t No Grave.
Images from their websites: michaelkardos.com and tjjarrett.com
More on the prize: http://www.muw.edu/welty/ephemeraprize
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Aug 14, 2015
Mississippi University for Women is a top Southern public master’s university in Columbus, MS with small classes, challenging academics, an extraordinary campus community, ranked as a best value by U.S. News & World Report and Washington Monthly.
The $200 Ephemera prize will be awarded to up to 5 entries from high school writers in grades 10-12 from Mississippi, nearby Alabama, or schools sponsored by W alums. See the webpage for a flyer and a lesson plan teachers can adapt for their classes.