Tim Parrish
author of the memoir Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racist and the novel The Jumper
Thursday, October 23, 2014, 7:30 p.m., Poindexter Hall
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Program of the 26th Annual
Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium
October 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 2014
The theme for this year's symposium is "''Homesick for Somewhere': Displacement, loss, and longing in the South" and is inspired by Eudora Welty's story "Kin" from her collection The Bride of Innisfallen.
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.
The full schedule can be found on our poster or the events listings on Facebook, Goodreads, and LibraryThing.
David Armand
Saturday, October 25, 11:15 a.m.
Author of Harlow and The Pugilist’s Wife
John Bensko
Friday, October 24, 9:40 a.m.
Author of Visitations, Sea Dogs, Green Soldiers, The Iron City, and The Waterman's Children
Richard Boada
Saturday, October 25, 10:20 a.m.
Author of The Error of Nostalgia
Amy Fleury
Saturday, October 25, 9:40 a.m.
Author of Sympathetic Magic, Beautiful Trouble, and Reliquaries of the Lesser Saints
Matthew Guinn
Friday, October 24, 10:20 a.m.
Author of The Resurrectionist
Derrick Harriell
Friday, October 24, 2:10 p.m.
Author of Ropes and Cotton
Deborah Johnson
Friday, October 24, 1:30 p.m.
Author of The Secret of Magic and The Air Between Us
Shayla Lawson
Friday, October 24, 11:00 a.m.
Author of A Speed Education in Human Being
Mary Miller
Saturday, October 25, 9:40 a.m.
Author of The Last Days of California
Carol Ruth Silver
Friday, October 24, 9:00 a.m.
author of Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison
Katy Simpson Smith
Friday, October 24, 3:00 p.m.
Author of The Story of Land and Sea