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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.

author of Promise

Saturday, October 20, 10:10 a.m.

Minrose Gwinreturns with her novel Promise, which Booklist cites as “a gripping tale of racism, power, and the bonds that make a family [that] explores how one can rebuild after tragedy strikes.” Set in Tupelo at the time of the 1936 F5 tornado that killed over 200 white residents and an unrecorded number of African Americans, Promise chronicles the intertwined lives of two familes, one black and one white, in the aftermath of the storm. Gwin has also published the novel The Queen of Palmyra, along with the memoir Wishing for Snow and the literary study Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement. She is also co-editor of The Literature of the American South and The Southern Literary Journal.

 

Did you know?

  1. Minrose Gwin is an alumna of The W. 
  2. Tupelo, MS, her home town, serves as the inspiration for her novel Promise. 
  3. She has worked for various newspapers and universities throughout the U.S.

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