Eudora Writers’ Symposium features Kiese Laymon

COLUMBUS, Miss.--Kiese Laymon returns as the keynote author for the 31st annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Oct. 10-12. Laymon will read from his latest book, “Heavy: An American Memoir,” which has been awarded the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose.