Welty Book Club Will Begin Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury January 31
The Welty at Home Virtual Book Club will kick off the new year on January 31 with an eight-week discussion of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. The hour-long weekly sessions will be held Mondays at 12 noon CST, skipping President’s Day, February 21. Jay Watson, Howry Professor of […] Read more »
Ann Patchett’s New Book Contains 2021 Welty Lecture and an Essay about Encountering Eudora
These Precious Days, a new collection of essays by Ann Patchett, became available November 23 and has been widely and enthusiastically reviewed. The 2021 Eudora Welty Lecture, entitled “The Nightstand,” was delivered by Patchett at the Eudora Welty House and recorded on video this summer. The essay is included in the book along with “Eudora […] Read more »
Steve Kistulentz To Read from His New Book of Poetry November 11 at Coffee Prose in Jackson
The Eudora Welty Foundation, sponsor of the Millsaps Visiting Writers Series, announces a reading by Steve Kistulentz from his new book of poetry. The Mating Call of the Dead, on Thursday, November 11, from 6:30-8 p.m. at Coffee Prose, 1619 North West Street, in Jackson (across the street from the Millsaps campus). The program is […] Read more »
2022 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship Application Deadline Set March 4
The Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) have announced March 4, 2022, as the deadline for applications for the Eudora Welty Research Fellowship to be used in the Summer of 2022. The competitive fellowship encourages and supports research by graduate students in the Eudora Welty Collection and related materials at […] Read more »