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Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium: Keynote
October 27, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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.
The keynote speaker for the 34th Annual Symposium is Steve Yarbrough. Steve Yarbrough is the author of twelve books, most recently the novel Stay Gone Days, due out in April 2022. His other books are the nonfiction title Bookmarked: Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show, the novels The Unmade World, The Realm of Last Chances, Safe from the Neighbors, The End of California, Prisoners of War, Visible Spirits and The Oxygen Man, and the short story collections Veneer, Mississippi History and Family Men. His work has been published in several foreign languages, including Dutch, Italian, Japanese and Polish, and it has also appeared in Ireland, Canada, and the U.K. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the California Book Award, the Richard Wright Award and the Robert Penn Warren Award. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
All Symposium events will be held October 27-29, 2022 on the MUW campus and are free and open to the public.
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