Eudora Welty Review 2023:
Volume 15 of EWR includes an essay by Katie Berry Frye on “A Piece of News” and the Ruth Vande Kieft award-winning essay by Pamela J. Merryman on The Shoe Bird; a cluster of essays on Welty and ecology including an essay by Jill Goad on The Golden Apples, Grace Perry McCright’s reading of “Moon Lake,” Nicole Salama’s essay on The Optimist’s Daughter, and Sarah Ford’s reading of Delta Wedding; notes on Welty and Bowen and Welty and Jewett, the transcription of an interview of Welty by Dick Cavett, a tribute to archivist Forrest Gayley, book reviews of Eudora Welty and Mystery, a volume edited by Jacob Agner and Harriet Pollack, and The Eye That Is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty by Danièle Pitavy-Souques and regular features including Practical Matters and the Checklist of Scholarship. See full table of contents here.
Announcements:
Pearl McHaney will be giving a lecture entitled “Lamar Life Insurance Company, WJDX, and Eudora Welty, Editor of Lamar Life Radio News,” on January 29, 2025 at 12 p.m. CST, as part of the “History is Lunch” series sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Archives & History. The lecture will be free in-person at the Neilsen Auditorium, Two Mississippi Museums (222 North Street, Jackson, MS) and livestreaming on the MDAH feed on facebook and youtube. For questions, email dgardner@mdah.ms.gov.
We are excited to announce that Melissa Fox has won the 2025 Eudora Welty Review Research Grant. Melissa will be examining the connections between Welty and V.S. Pritchett as “friends and travelers and readers.” Melissa will be visiting the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to examine Pritchett’s letters to Welty, any photographs of the authors together, and any writings where Welty mentions Pritchett. We look forward to hearing about the fruits of Melissa’s research. Read more about the EWR grant here
