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35th Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium features Katy Simpson Smith

Published: 16 October 2023
Written by Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg
Categories: Arts & Sciences, News
35th Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium features Katy Simpson Smith

Katy Simpson Smith Novelist Katy Simpson Smith returns as the keynote author at the 35th annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Oct. 19-21 with her fourth novel, “The Weeds,” a meditation on the lives of two women from two centuries as they catalogue the flora of the Roman Colosseum. A Jackson…

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First woman to command NASA shuttle to speak at The W’s Welty Gala

Published: 10 July 2023
Written by Tyler Wheat
Categories: News
First woman to command NASA shuttle to speak at The W’s Welty Gala

Eileen Collins Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command an American spacecraft, will be the featured speaker for Mississippi University for Women’s 2023 Welty Gala at 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 20, at the Trotter Convention Center in downtown Columbus. Nora Miller, W president, said, “We are thrilled to…

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