Summer is an exciting time for the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium. We are busy sending invitations to our selected writers and waiting to hear back from them and collect the necessary information so we can start building out our website. In the meantime, we know our audience is also excited to know who will be coming, and many want to get their books early so they can start reading!

Before the full program for 2026 is ready to launch, we will post the authors who have confirmed they can join us October 22-24, 2026 for the 38th annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium

• Keynote: W. Ralph Eubanks, When It’s Darkness on the Delta
• Angela Ball, Steeplechase
• Amelia Franz, The Longest Man-Made Beach in the World
• Meghana Mysore, Let All Our Ghosts Depart 
• Ellen Morris Prewitt, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women
• Whitney Rio-Ross, thunder makes us
• Justin Wymer, Let the Forest Go
• Marcus Wicker, Dear Mothership

We’re over half-way to securing our full list. Check back soon for more news!