Welty Writer’s Symposium Keynote, W. Ralph Eubanks
The annual Eudora Welty Writer’s Symposium begins its 2026 sessions with a keynote by W. Ralph Eubanks, author of When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land. Eubanks has written three other non-fiction books and has contributed articles to the Washington Post, WIRED, The New Yorker, National Public Radio, among others.
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