Featuring: Katy Simpson Smith, The Weeds followed by a reception and book signing with all symposium authors Watch Live
The Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium is held each October in honor of The W's most famous alumna. A diverse group of Southern writers and scholars are invited to present their work. A highlight of the symposium is the announcement of the Eudora Welty Prize for an unpublished book of scholarship. All Symposium events will be […]
Featured authors: 9:00 Lee Durkee, Stalking Shakespeare 9:40 Maurice Carlos Ruffin, The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You 10:30 De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Decent People 11:10 K. Iver, Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco all times are approximate except our start time Watch Live
Featured Authors: 1:30 Ann Fisher-Wirth, Paradise is Jagged 2:10 Halle Hill, Good Women: Stories 2:50 Claude Wilkinson, Soon Done with the Crosses 3:30 Ephemera Prize: Georgia Bailey Emelia Bosarge Anthony Bradley, Ava Grace Noe Iris Xue All times approximate except our start time Watch Live
The Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium is held each October in honor of The W's most famous alumna. A diverse group of Southern writers and scholars are invited to present their work. A highlight of the symposium is the announcement of the Eudora Welty Prize for an unpublished book of scholarship. All Symposium events will be […]
Featured Authors: 9:30 Ethel Morgan Smith, Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement 10:10 Christie Collins, The Art of Coming Undone 11:00 Ellen Ann Fentress, The Steps We Take 11:40 Exodus Brownlow, I'm Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, to Go Back to Who I Knew Before, and Oh Lord, Who […]
The Anglophone Music Group StarWound from Greece will perform new songs in collaboration with prominent poetry professors and students of five distinguished universities in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama, including the poem “Orpheus” by Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg. “Interiors” represents StarWound’s survey on the lyrics of contemporary US-based poets. The goal is to provide musical accompaniment […]
Margaret Renkl Author of The Comfort of Crows In The Comfort of Crows, bestselling author Margaret Renkl presents fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As she takes us through the seasons, she introduces us to both joy at the ongoing pleasures of the natural […]
Join the W Wind Ensemble as they put on a lovely show featuring classics, old and new. This event is free and open to the public.
Join the W Department of Music as we celebrate Black History Month – featuring performances by the W Ensembles, Students, and Faculty!
Dr. Jodi Skipper, Associate Professor of Anthropology & Southern Studies, University of Mississippi Author of Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South in conjunction with our 2023-2024 MUW Community Read of Clint Smith’s How the Word Is Passed made possible with funding from the Mississippi Humanities Council Behind the Big […]
