Natasha Trethewey
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Program of the 32nd Annual
Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium
October 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2020
The theme for this year's symposium is “'Walking Along in the Changing-Time': Southern Writers in Uncertain Times." It is inspired by Eudora Welty's story “The Wide Net.”
Times listed are approximate start times of each reading in Central Daylight Time. Sessions will be at the following times:
- Thursday, 6-7 p.m.
- Friday, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
- Friday, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
- Friday, 7-9 p.m.
- Saturday, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
All sessions will be live-streamed on Facebook at our WeltySymposium Group.
Books are available for purchase through The Bookend.
For signed copies, contact the author through their author website.
S. A. Cosby
author of Blacktop Wasteland
Friday, October 23, 10 a.m.
Eden Wales Freedman
Welty Prize author of Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature
Friday, October 23, 8:20 p.m.
Randall Horton
author of {#289-128}: Poems
Friday, Oct. 23, 10:40 a.m.
Juyanne James
author of Table Scraps and Other Essays
Friday, October 23, 2:10 p.m.
Beth Kander
author of the Original Syn Trilogy
Saturday, October 24, 11:20 a.m.
Sandra Meek
author of Still
Friday, October 23, 2:50 p.m.
Catherine Pierce
author of Danger Days
Friday, October 23, 7:40 p.m.
Katy Simpson Smith
author of The Everlasting
Saturday, October 24, 10:40 a.m.
Michael Farris Smith
author of Blackwood
Friday, October 23, 11:20 a.m.
M. O. Walsh
author of The Big Door Prize
Friday, October 23, 7 p.m.
Claude Wilkinson
