Steve Yarbrough
author of The Unmade World
October 18, 7:30 p.m., Keynote
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Program of the 30th Annual
Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium
October 18th, 19th, and 20th, 2018
The theme for this year's symposium is “‘As If the Ear of the World Listened’: Celebrating Thirty Years of Southern Stories,” which is inspired by Welty's novel Delta Wedding.
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 during the symposium.
Times listed are approximate start times of each reading—sessions begin at the following times: Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 9:00 a.m. & 1:30 p.m., and Saturday 9:30 a.m.
Angela Ball
author of Talking Pillow
Friday, October 19, 9:00 a.m.
David A. Davis
author of World War I and Southern Modernism
Saturday, October 20, 9:30 a.m.
Anthony Grooms
author of The Vain Conversation
Friday, October 19, 9:40 a.m.
Minrose Gwin
author of Promise
Saturday, October 20, 10:10 a.m.
Silas House
author of Southernmost
Friday, October 19 11:15 a.m.
Pauline Kaldas
author of Looking Both Ways
Friday, October 19, 3:00 p.m.
T. K. Lee
author of To Square a Circle
Saturday, October 20, 11:00 a.m.
Kamilah Aisha Moon
author of Starshine and Clay
Friday, October 19, 10:30 a.m.
Mike Smith
author of And There was Evening and There was Morning
Saturday, October 20, 11:45 a.m.
Adam Vines
author of Out of Speech
Friday, October 19, 2:10 p.m.
Latha Viswanathan
author of Temples
Friday, October 19, 1:30 p.m.