Schedule

Thursday, April 16

3:00-5:00pm
Registration
Boyd Campbell Student Center, Leggett Center Lobby

4:00-5:00pm
Poetry Reading: James Kimbrell
Boyd Campbell Student Center, Leggett Center

5:00-7:00pm
Opening Reception, “Eudora Welty in New York” 
An exhibit of photographs recreating Welty’s 1936 show. 
Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S. Lamar Street

7:30pm
Special Performance: The Ponder Heart
Tickets: $12 for Southern Literary Festival participants and Eudora Welty Society members. Call 601.948.3533 to purchase.
New Stage Theatre, 1100 Carlisle Street

9:30pm
Post-Performance Discussion with Director and Cast
Coffee and dessert provided.

7:30pm
Alternate Event: “Have You Observed Nothing?”: An evening of Samuel Beckett Shorts: Rough for Theatre I, Ohio Impromptu, Play, Not I and Breath.
Tickets, Special Rate: $6 students, $8 faculty. Tickets available at box office one hour prior to each show.   
Christian Center Auditorium
 
10:30pm
Open Mic Reading
Boyd Campbell Student Center, Kava House

Friday, April 17

8:00am-5:00pm
Registration
Boyd Campbell Student Center, Leggett Center

8:30-9:45am
Workshops
 • Fiction
 • Non-fiction
 • Playwriting
 • Poetry
Advanced registration required. Contact wilsola@millsaps.edu.
Boyd Campbell Student Center, Leggett Center and Millsaps-Wilson Library

9:00am
Tour of Welty House.
Advanced registration required. Contact wilsola@millsaps.edu.

10:00-11:30am
Opening Session
 • Welcome
 • Roll Call of Members
 • Presentation of student literary contest
 • Brief readings by prizewinners
Academic Complex Recital Hall
   
11:30am-12:30pm
Lunch

12:30-1:30pm
Millsaps Forum: “Writing Miss Daisy”
Alfred Uhry on playwriting, screenwriting, and Driving Miss Daisy.  
Academic Complex, Room 215

1:45-2:45pm
Craft of Poetry Writing
James Kimbrell, Steve Kistulentz, and Greg Miller
Academic Complex Recital Hall

3:00-4:15pm 
Remembering Eudora
With Richard Ford, Alfred Uhry, Elizabeth Spencer, Patti Black, Mary Alice White, Former Governor William Winter, and Suzanne Marrs.
Academic Complex Recital Hall

4:30-6:00pm
Reading: Ann Patchett and Elizabeth Spencer
Academic Complex Recital Hall

6:00-7:00pm
Reception
Boyd Campbell Student Center, Leggett Center

8:00pm
Singing the Centennial: A Welty Tribute Concert
With Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kate Campbell, Claire Holley, and Caroline Herring.
Tickets: Contact Ticketmaster at 601-355-5252 or visit the website for tickets.  
Belhaven College Center for the Arts, 835 Riverside Drive

7:30pm
Alternate Event: The Ponder Heart 
Tickets: $15 for Southern Literary Festival participants and Eudora Welty Society members. Call 601.948.3533 to purchase.
New Stage Theatre, 1100 Carlisle Street

7:30pm
Alternate Event: Millsaps Players Production “Have You Observed Nothing?”: an evening of Samuel Beckett shorts: Rough for Theatre I, Ohio Impromptu, Play, Not I and Breath.
Tickets, Special Rate: $6 students, $8 faculty. Tickets available at box office one hour prior to each show.  
Christian Center Auditorium

10:30pm
Open Mic Reading
Boyd Campbell Student Center, Kava House

Saturday, April 18

8:00-11:00am
Registration  
Academic Complex, 2nd Floor Lobby

7:30-8:45am
Executive Committee Breakfast Meeting
Boyd Campbell Student Center, 2nd Floor, Lindsey Suite

8:00-9:00am
Continental Breakfast
Academic Complex, 2nd Floor

9:00-10:00am
Songwriting Workshop
Claire Holley, Kate Campbell
Academic Complex, Room 215

10:15-11:15am
Craft of Fiction Writing
Richard Ford, Ann Patchett, and Elizabeth Spencer
Academic Complex Recital Hall

11:30am-12:30pm 
Reading: Richard Ford
Academic Complex Recital Hall

12:30–2:00pm
Lunch - On Your Own

1:00pm
Tour of Welty House.
Advanced registration required. Contact wilsola@millsaps.edu.

2:00-3:15pm 
Eudora Welty and the Theatre
With Alfred Uhry, Tom McHaney, and Patti Black.
New Stage Theatre, 1100 Carlisle Street

8:00pm
Bravo V: Adoring Eudora
Mississippi Symphony Orchestra  
See website for ticket information.
Thalia Mara Hall, 201 E. Pascagoula

7:30pm
Alternate Event: The Ponder Heart 
Tickets: $15 for Southern Literary Festival participants and Eudora Welty Society members. Call 601.948.3533 to purchase.
New Stage Theatre, 1100 Carlisle Street

7:30pm
Alternate Event: Millsaps Players Production “Have You Observed Nothing?”: Rough for Theatre I, Ohio Impromptu, Play, Not I and Breath.
Tickets, Special Rate: $6 students, $8 faculty. Tickets available at box office one hour prior to each show.
Christian Center Auditorium