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Program of the 34th Annual

Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium 

October 27th, 28th, and 29th, 2022

The theme for this year's symposium is "Telling Stories, Charting a Future: 'Coming to the end of the road… the jumping-off place'" It is inspired by Eudora Welty's story "No Place for You, My Love" from The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories.

All sessions will be held in Rent Auditorium of Whitfield Hall and live-streamed for those who can't attend in person.
Books are available for purchase through The Bookend.

author of Heating and Cooling

Mississippi's poet laureate, Beth Ann Fennelly, returns to the symposium with her genre-bending collection, Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs. Ranging in length from a sentence to a few pages, these essays take on a wide range of subjects from marriage, to a kiss in a swimming pool, to parenthood, and to writing. Fennelly is the author of three prior poetry collections, Unmentionables, Tender Hooks, and Open House, as well as the essay collection Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother and the novel, The Tilted World, coauthored with her husband Tom Franklin.

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