Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy

Name: Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Saturday AM
Start: 2025-10-25T09:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-25T12:30:00-05:00
Location: Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall

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May 2025
May 30, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

MFA Short Residency Performance

Cochran Ballroom

Featuring: L. Lamar Wilson's Short Writing Residency in performance @LLPatTheW on YouTube
October 2025
Featured October 23, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium

Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium Keynote

Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall

Featuring Ashley M. Jones, Lullaby for the Grieving Watch Live View the full schedule

Free
Featured October 24, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium

Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Friday AM

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 Watch Live View the full schedule

Free
Featured October 24, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium

Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Friday PM

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 Watch Live View the full schedule

Free
Featured October 25, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium

Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Saturday AM

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 Watch Live View the full schedule

Free

About The W

Located in historic Columbus, Mississippi, The W was founded in 1884 as the first state-supported college for women in the United States. Today, the university is home to 2,371 students in more than 70 majors and concentrations and has educated men for 40 years. The university is nationally recognized for low student debt, community and social mobility which empowers students to BE BOLD.

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