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 Barrier Island Suite
9:30 AM on Saturday, October 22
Kendall Dunkelberg directs the low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing at the W, as well has the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium. His third collection of poems Barrier Island Suite was inspired by Walter Ingles Anderson. His other poetry collections are Time Capsules, Landscapes and Architectures, and a collection of translated poems Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus
