Reception for artist Terri Jones and the opening of her exhibition in the Fine Arts Gallery
Opening remarks: Bridget Smith Pieschel (English, MUW), Symposium Director
Welcome: Dr. Claudia Limbert, President of MUW
Presentation of the Eudora Welty Prize: Seetha Srinivasan, University Press of Mississippi, and Thomas Richardson, Eudora Welty Distinguished Chairholder
Introduction of speaker: Thomas Richardson
author of A Family’s Affairs, Black Cloud, White Cloud, The Rock Cried Out, A Lifetime Burning, Where the Dreams Cross, Apostles of Light, The Magic Carpet, Can’t Quit You, Baby, Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell and numerous other short stories and essays
After the reading, there will be a reception and book-signing by all symposium authors in the foyer of Nissan Auditorium.
author of poetry collections These Modern Nights, Hours of the Cardinal, and Fleur Carnivore and poetry in The Nation, Poetry, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and The North American Review
author of Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press, essays in Publishing History and Beat Scene, and poetry and fiction in Chiron Review and Slipstream
Coffee Break
author of Fire in Beulah, The Mercy Seat, Harpsong, and short story collection Strange Business
2007 MUW Reading Initiative Author of Waiting for Christopher, Rosey in the Present Tense, The Vanishing Point, and short story collection Anteaters Don’t Dream
12:00 Lunch Break
Tickets are Available for The 2007 MUW Woman of the Year Luncheon and Program honoring Kay Beevers Cobb, MUW Class of 1963
author of Spelldown, poetry collection Wolf Heart, and stories in The South Carolina Review, Timber Creek Review, and others
author of The Blue Bottle Club, The Amber Photograph, The Amethyst Heart, The Wishing Jar, The Memory Book, Circle of Grace, Delta Belles, and non-fiction collections including Beside a Quiet Stream and Simple Words of Wisdom
author of Call Me Gullah: An American Heritage
author of essay collections Turn South at the Next Magnolia and In a Magnolia Minute: Secrets of a Late Bloomer and other essays for public radio
A Readers Theatre featuring Margaret Edson’s “Wit,” presented by the MUW Department of Music and Theatre
author of Famous Fathers and Other Stories and short stories in Norton’s Sudden Fiction anthology, Mississippi Review, Pindeldyboz, Word Riot, and others
author of poetry collections The Strict Economy of Fire, Kitchen Heat, and poems in Poetry, Southern Review, Shenandoah, and others
Coffee Break
author of Fuhrer’s Heart: An American Story and Associate Professor of Political Science at MUW
This and other Welty Series programs are financially assisted by a generous grant from The Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation. Supplemental Welty Series Funding is provided by the Welty Series Endowment and the MUW Foundation.