Share in Eudora’s Birthday Festivities Saturday, April 13, at the Welty House and Garden: Free Tours, Plant Sale, and Photographs

Spring is in blossom at the Eudora Welty House and Garden, and activities are as abundant as the flowers. Eudora Welty’s 110th birthday will be celebrated in style at the Eudora Welty House and Garden on Saturday, April 13, all day long. The House will be open for free tours at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., […] Read more »

Celebration for Revised Edition of Welty’s Photographs Set for Saturday, April 13, Eudora’s Birthday

The new and revised edition of Eudora Welty’s Photographs, first published in 1989, will be honored on Saturday, April 13, at 4:00 p.m. on the front lawn of the Eudora Welty House and Garden with a public celebration sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation and Bookfriends of the University Press of Mississippi. Held on the […] Read more »

Fiction Writer Mary Miller To Keynote 2019 Scholastic Writing Awards Ceremony April 14

The Scholastic Writing Awards ceremony on April 14 will feature keynote speaker noted author Mary Miller. She has two collections of short stories, Big World and Always Happy Hour, to her credit as well as two novels, The Last Days of California and Biloxi, due out in May. The event will begin at 2 p.m. at the Eudora Welty House and […] Read more »

2019 Scholastic Writing Award Winners To Be Recognized Sunday, April 14

Winners of the 2019 Scholastic Writing Awards will be honored at a ceremony on Sunday, April 14, at 2 p.m. at the Eudora Welty House and Garden, sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Eudora Welty House and Garden. Acclaimed author and Mississippi native Mary Miller will deliver the keynote address. (See related story in […] Read more »