Exhibit Features Welty and Medgar Evers
Opening May 15 at the Eudora Welty House Education and Visitors Center, “Life Into Fiction: The Murder of Medgar Evers and ‘Where Is the Voice Coming From?’” examines how the assassination of Medgar Evers compelled Eudora Welty to write — on the day he was murdered — one of her most haunting stories. Written from […] Read more »
Research Fellowship Awarded to Ebony O. Lumumba
The 2013 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship has been awarded to Ebony O. Lumumba, an advanced doctoral student in English at the University of Mississippi. Established by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Department of Archives and History, the fellowship seeks to encourage and support research use of the Eudora Welty Collection by graduate students. Lumumba […] Read more »
Four Receive National Scholastic Writing Awards
Four young Mississippi writers received national honors in the Scholastic Writing Awards competition of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers on April 7 at the Jackson Convention Complex. National winners included Merrilee Bufkin, Mississippi School for the Arts, Gold Medal, poetry, who was also chosen for an American Voices honor and read from her […] Read more »
Welty Birthday Features Heirloom Plant Sale, First Presbyterian 6th Graders
Eudora Welty’s annual birthday celebration was highlighted by an heirloom plant sale on April 12 at the Welty House. Camellias and summer annuals custom grown for the Welty garden sold out. First Presbyterian Day School’s Sixth Grade Choir presented a concert, and birthday cake and lemonade was served on the side porch all day. The […] Read more »