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Virtual Book Talk: Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
2025-04-30 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
This is a virtual discussion on Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks, by Crystal Wilkinson.

MFA Short Residency Performance
2025-05-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Cochran Ballroom
Featuring: L. Lamar Wilson’s Short Writing Residency in performance
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MFA Full Residency Reading #1
2025-06-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Cochran Ballroom (1st Floor)
Featuring: L. Lamar Wilson & Christian Collier
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MFA Full Residency Reading #2
2025-06-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Cochran Ballroom (1st Floor)
Featuring: T. K. Lee and Kerri Roe
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MFA Full Residency Reading #3
2025-06-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Cochran Ballroom (1st Floor)
Featuring: T. K. Lee and Jennifer Armstrong
with Katerina Canyon and Alexis Jemal
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MFA Full Residency Reading #4
2025-06-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Cochran Ballroom (1st Floor)
Featuring: Ellen Ann Fentress and Megan Prestridge
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MFA Full Residency Reading #5
2025-06-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Friendly City Books, 118 N 5th Street, Columbus, 39701, United States
Featuring:
Lauren Rhoades, Split the Baby
Kendall Dunkelberg, Tree Fall with Birdsong
at Friendly City Books
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MFA Full Residency Reading #6
2025-06-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Cochran Ballroom (1st Floor)
Featuring: Brandy T. Wilson and Lindsey Parker
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New Faculty Orientation
2025-08-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Tiered Classroom, Columbus

Community Read Book Talk: The Barn
2025-09-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Gail P. Gunter Multi-Purpose Room
Join us for the 1st in a series of book talks about The Barn, by Wright Thompson, discussing Section I of the book. Copies of the book will be available to first attendees present.
Guest facilitator: TBA

Faculty Voice Recital: Art Songs by African American Women
2025-09-13 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
Join the W Department of Music for a beautiful evening of Art songs by Margaret Bonds, Jeraldine Saunders Herbison, Betty Jackson King, Undine Smith Moore, Florence Price, and Dolores White – all performed by Faculty soprano, Dr. Susan Hurley, accompanied by fellow Faculty member, Dr. William Reber on piano. Livestream for this concert can be found here on our Virtual Concert Series page. This event is free and open to the public.

Music Faculty Showcase
2025-09-16 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
Join the W Department of Music as we host a musical evening featuring an array of musical genres from our accomplished W Music Faculty! Livestream for this concert can be found here on our Virtual Concert Series page. This event is free and open to the public.

Feminist Book Club Session #1
2025-09-24 16:00 - 17:00 | Friendly City Books, 118 N 5th Street, Columbus, 39701, United States
At the club’s first session, members will discuss Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me.
Lessa Harvey, an 1884 Fellow in the Women’s College, created this feminist book club after working at Friendly City Books as a Nancy Yates Community Engagement Fellow in the summer of 2025.

Meet the Author: Chelsi West Ohueri
2025-09-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Gail P. Gunter Multi-Purpose Room

Music in the Library
2025-09-26 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Fant Memorial Library, 1100 College St, Columbus, MS, United States
Join the W Department of Music for a musical afternoon as our talented music faculty and majors perform in Fant Memorial Library. You can take a study break, grab a book and a coffee at the library’s cafe, and enjoy some wonderful tunes with us!

Reclaiming Pleasure with Catherine Simone Gray
2025-10-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Gail P. Gunter Room, Fant Memorial Library
Catherine Simone Gray–also called “Unsilenced Woman” and author of Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure–gathers women, mothers, and caregivers to explore how writing can be an ally in our living and loving.
Part of the Women’s College Colloquium Speaker Series. All are welcome.

Banned Books Week Speaker: Amanda Watson
2025-10-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Tiered Classroom

Voice Students' Recital
2025-10-07 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
The W Department of Music is proud to showcase our voice students’ hard work – please join us for a wonderful evening of music featuring an array of different genres. Livestream for this concert can be found here on our Virtual Concert Series page. This event is free and open to the public.

Music Therapy Clinical Forum
2025-10-14 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
Learn about the mental and physical impact music brings to life by hearing from our Music Therapy majors! This event is free and open to the public.

Fireside Chat with W Alum Kimberly Griffin
2025-10-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Gail P. Gunter Room, Fant Memorial Library
Kimberly Griffin is a seasoned revenue generation expert with over two decades of fundraising, marketing, sales, and advertising experience. She is also the founding publisher and chief revenue officer of the Mississippi Free Press, a statewide nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focusing on solutions-based journalism. She received her B.S. in journalism from The W. Read her full bio at the Mississippi Free Press.
Griffin will be sharing the inside scoop on her struggles and successes in building the non-profit newsroom at Mississippi Free Press. The conversation will be moderated by 1884 Scholar and Spectator reporter Merry MacLellan.
Part of the Women’s College Colloquium Speaker Series. All are welcome.

University of Mississippi Guest Artist Trio Recital
2025-10-16 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
Join the W Department of Music as we host guest artist University of Mississippi’s instrumental trio! This event is free and open to the public.

Music In The Library
2025-10-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Northwest Lobby, Columbus

NACUSA Recital
2025-10-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
The W Department of Music and the Mid-South Chapter of NACUSA (National Association of Composers/USA) hosts a concert featuring new compositions. Please join us for a fun afternoon of music! This event is free and open to the public.

Fall Recital 2025
2025-10-21 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
The W Department of Music is proud to showcase all of our students’ hard work – please join us for a wonderful evening of music featuring an array of different genres. This event is free and open to the public.

Feminist Book Club Session #2
2025-10-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Friendly City Books, 118 N 5th Street, Columbus, 39701, United States
At the club’s second session, members will discuss The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick.
Lessa Harvey, an 1884 Fellow in the Women’s College, created this feminist book club after working at Friendly City Books as a Nancy Yates Community Engagement Fellow in the summer of 2025.

Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium Keynote
2025-10-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall
Featuring Ashley M. Jones, Lullaby for the Grieving
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Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium, Friday AM
2025-10-24 09:00 - 12:00 | Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall
Featuring:

drea brown, Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women, Welty Prize
Addie E. Citchens, Dominion
Kathleen Driskell, Goat-Footed Gods
Rickey Fayne, The Devil Three Times

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Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium, Friday PM
2025-10-24 13:30 - 16:00 | Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall
Featuring:

Robert Busby, Bodock
Olivia Clare Friedman, An Arm Fixed to a Wing
Carrie R. Moore, Make Your Way Home: Stories
Ephemera Prize Winners: Colin Chung, Jake Heisler, Anthony Nguyen, Ryan Wei, and Althea Wells

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Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium, Saturday AM
2025-10-25 09:30 - 12:30 | Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall
Featuring:

Kendall Dunkelberg, Tree Fall with Birdsong
Jordan LaHaye Fontenot, Home of the Happy
Samyak Shertok, No Rhododendron
Lauren Rhoades, Split the Baby

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