Salman Rushdie Coming to Mississippi Book Festival as Welty Foundation Guest
The following announcement from the Mississippi Book Festival was released April 13, what would have been Eudora’s 109th birthday, in association with the Eudora Welty Foundation! Provocative and unconventional, Salman Rushdie is not known for doing things by the book – and we are thrilled to announce that he will be joining the festival line-up as […] Read more »
Spring Plant Sale April 14 To Offer Specialties from the Welty Garden; Second Saturday Tours Also Available
For a selection of plants propagated directly from the Welty Garden, don’t miss the annual spring plant sale on Saturday, April 14, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Above, Jenna Holloway Cochran shows off her selections from last year’s sale, and Cereus Weeders Beth Graham, Retta Boyd, and Leigh Eley, faithful garden volunteers, help customers. Held in front […] Read more »
NEWS FLASH! Over 400 Attend Scholastic Writing Awards Ceremony; 192 Honored with 327 Awards
Mississippi’s Poet Laureate, Beth Ann Fennelly, an acclaimed author and professor/director of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Mississippi, was the keynote speaker at the Scholastic Writing Awards ceremony on Sunday, April 15, on the lawn of the Eudora Welty House and Garden when 192 winners were honored with 327 awards. A […] Read more »
Noted Author Alice McDermott Delivers 2018 Bettye Jolly Lecture; Listen To Lecture Here
Some 140 guests enjoyed hearing novelist Alice McDermott’s presentation as the 2018 Bettye Jolly Lecturer on a cool but sunny March 8 in the Eudora Welty Garden. Guests were welcomed by Holmes Adams, Eudora Welty Foundation board chair, and McDermott was introduced by Welty scholar Suzanne Marrs, who taught McDermott as an undergraduate at the State University of New […] Read more »