Industrial Institute & College (II&C), the predecessor to The W, opened its doors to students for the first time on this date in 1885.

Natasha Trethewey has served as Poet Laureate of the United States and of the State of Mississippi. She will read from her new memoir Memorial Drive.

All symposium sessions will be live-streamed to Facebook at the Welty Symposium group.

Authors include:

• S. A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland,—  10am
• Randall Horton {#289-128}: Poems — 10:40am
• Michael Farris Smith, Blackwood — 11:20am

All symposium sessions will be live-streamed to Facebook at the Welty Symposium group.

Authors include:

• Ephemera Prize Reading — 1:30
• Juyanne James, Table Scraps and Other Essays —2:10
• Sandra Meek, Still: Poems — 2:50

 All symposium sessions will be live-streamed to Facebook at the Welty Symposium group.

Authors include:

• M.O. Walsh The Big Door Prize — 7pm
• Catherine Pierce, Danger Days —7:40pm
• Eden Wales Freedman, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma — 8:20pm

 All symposium sessions will be live-streamed to Facebook at the Welty Symposium group.

Authors include:

• Claude Wilkinson, World Without End — 10am
• Katy Simpson Smith, The Everlasting —10:40am
• Beth Kander, Original Syn — 11:20am

 All symposium sessions will be live-streamed to Facebook at the Welty Symposium group.