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The Eudora Welty Foundation continues to encourage reading, writing, and the appreciation of Welty's work through programs of education and outreach, and the Welty Hous has welcomed over 2,000 visitors this year representing some 40 states and eight countries.
Acclaimed playwrite, producer, and director Alfred Uhry, a member of the WElty Foundation National Advisory Board, will host a three-day workshop for aspiring playwrights next summer at Millsaps College, sponsored by the Foundation. The workshop will focus on creating adaptations of Eudora Welty's stories for the stage and possibly the screen. Applications will be sent this fall to writing programs in colleges and universities. Five students will be selected through a national application and portfolio submissions process.
The chronicle of the friendship between Eudora Welty and WIlliam Maxwell, novelist and longtime fiction editor of The New Yorker, will come to life next year with the publication of a book of their correspondence of more than 50 years by Suzanne Marrs. "What There is to Say We have Said": The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and WIlliam Maxwell will include the exchange of letters between Welty and Maxwell that began in 1942 and extended until the mid 1990s. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book will also include correspondence between Welty and Maxwell's wife, Emily, who was also a good friend.
Eudora Welty's World: Words on Nature. Edited by Patti Carr Black. Eudora Welty was deeply attuned to nature; her fiction is rich with her knowledge of and pleasure in the natural world. This is an attractive gift book, containing some of Welty's most evocative quotations on nature, complemented with watercolors of Mississippi scenes by artist Robin Whitfield. Cost is $20.00 including tax and postage. Please contact the Eudora Welty House at (601) 353 7762 or contact@eudorawelty.org for more information. Book procedes go towards support of the Eudora Welty Foundation.
In partnership with the Southern Literary Trail and Alabama Humanities Foundation, an exhibit of Welty photographic and literary works opened at the Museum of Mobile in September. Drawn from the works published in One Time, One Place, "Eudora Welty--Exposures and Reflections," includes 40 photographs as well as excepts from Welty's written catalogue. Curated by the Museum of Mobile, the exhibit will tour through October 2011, traveling to Montgomery's Rosa Parks Museum, the Atlanta History Center, and Mississippi University for Women. For more information phone (251) 208 7569 or email museum@cityofmobile.org.