October 20th, 21st, and 22nd, 2016
The theme for this year's symposium is "Overcoming the Silence: To speak out when 'It warrants no stir.'" which is inspired by Eudora Welty's story "The Demonstrators," which was published in The New Yorker in 1966 and appears in The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.
The names below are the list of authors for this year, including when available, links to author websites where you can learn a little more about this year's line-up. Don't forget that we will be selling books at Welty Book Table during the symposium.
author of Smote
9:00 AM on Friday, October 21
James Kimbrell is a native of Jackson, Mississippi. His collection of poems, Smote, has been praised by New Pages as “an apparition that haunts a racially segregated American South, told through the eyes of a boy confronted by ghosts.” He holds a Guggenheim Fellowship and teaches creative writing at Florida State University. His previous books are My Psychic and The Gatehouse Heaven.
