We're proud to be sponsors of this symposium! Looking forward to our Short Writing Residency next week when MFA students will be reading and discussing these authors' works.
Welty Symposium@weltysymposium.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's almost time for the 38th Annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. What a fantastic line-up! Fee and open to all! #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #southernwriters #writingcommunity
We're excited to see the return of New Stories from the South, especially since our very own alumna, Exodus Brownlow is included in the inaugural relaunch of this amazing series. Congratulations, Exodus! @blairpub.bsky.social blairpub.com/shop/p/new-s...
A revivial of the iconic anthology of best Southern short stories featuring emerging voices. — Blair Publisher
Appalachian writer Silas House, New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, and the poetry collection All These Ghosts (Blair, 2025) will write the foreword for the Best of 2026 Volume. The a...
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T. K. Lee is featured today in Lauren Rhoades' Substack magazine, Rooted. Congratulations! rooted.substack.com/p/mississipp...
Mississippi Native: T.K. Lee
"When you’re from Mississippi, you are Mississippi. Which means, I find Mississippi to be an intricate and complicated topic to talk about because I find it hard to separate myself from it."
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One of our favorite things to do on the first day of class is to update our map of where our MFA students, alumni, and faculty live. www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
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Congratulations to Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Artist Fellowship awardees Kendall Dunkelberg and Julie Whitehead and Artist Minigrant recipients Ellen Ann Fentress and Katrina Byrd! arts.ms.gov/grant-recipi...
Grant Recipients - Mississippi Arts Commission
FY2027 Grant Recipients The Mississippi Arts Commission has awarded more than $1.7 million in funding to artists and arts programs across the state for Fiscal Year 2027. Recipients will benefit […]
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Huge congratulations to Salaam Green, whose poem "A New American South: Impressions from the Front Porch on Juneteenth" was reprinted on the Academy of American Poets website and included in their newsletter of June 18, celebrating Juneteenth with nine poets. poets.org/poem/new-ame...
A New American South: Impressions from the Front Porch on Juneteenth
When the South says revival / Does it mean black homecomings
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Congratulations to Nancy Bell on two recent publications. "Tendrils" in Terrain www.terrain.org/2026/nonfict...
Tendrils - Terrain.org
In her lovely lyric essay "Tendrils," Nancy Bell weaves science and memory, wonder and strangeness, dreams and possibilities.
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It was great to see Dena Pruett at our MFA Full Residency Readings. She sent me a lit of her recent accomplishments. She's been so busy, I'll have to reply multiple times below to list them. Congratulations, Dena!!
Grace Gibbons has signed a contract with Panhandle Creek Press to publish her thesis memoir, Illegitimate, in September 2027. She is also about to start working for AmeriCorps in September, doing literacy with preschoolers. Congratulations, Grace!!
What a fantastic group of writers gathered for our 2026 Full Writing Residency. 17 students, 4 faculty (and 2 students who came in just to defend their theses, not pictured). We're almost through an amazing 9 days of workshops, seminars, and readings.
We've tried to follow all the past Welty Symposium authors we could find. If we missed you, maybe because your username isn't your name, follow us and we'll follow back!
We're getting on @bsky.app to announce our dates and theme for the 38th annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium.
Congratulations to Faith Thiebaud, one of our new MFA students starting this summer, who published a chapbook, I'm Not Hungry, with Bottlecap Press in February. She told me some of these poems were in her writing sample, so I know you'll want to read them! bottlecap.press/products/imn...
I'm Not Hungry, by Faith Thiebaud
Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. I’m Not Hungry is a raw, emotional, and blunt reflection on life. Thiebaud writes unapologetically about human struggles, and does not shy away fro...
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We're so proud of our alumni who presented at #AWP26 Beth Kander-Dauphin, Sea Creatures, Space & Words Karol Lagodzki, Writing Beyond the Mother Tongue C. T. Salazar, More than the Sum of Its Parts Celeste Schueler, Divergent Writers
Next week, we'll be heading to #AWP26 in Baltimore. Come talk with us at T984 in the #BookFair. We'll be tabling with @ponderreview.bsky.social and @poetrysouth.bsky.social
Don't miss today's talk by Kris Lee at 4pm Central. If you can't join in person, it will be live streamed on YouTube www.youtube.com/@LLPatTheW/l...
This is not a new leaf to turn, you just didn't know about it. Science Fiction! Look for a new story of mine in the July/August issue of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social #sciencefiction #publishing #writerslife
As the Spring 2026 semester begins, I've added four new students to our map of where we live. Welcome Gina Elia, Salaam Green, Anne Gunter, and Amy Wilson! I'm also thrilled to move Erin Matson and Alexis Jemal to the Alumni group. Congratulations Erin and Alexis! www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/e...
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Mississippi University for Women's Low-Res MFA in Creative Writing Students, Alumni, and Faculty live in these places.
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Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams were featured with other creatives on this year’s float. #writers #mississippi
Living Blues@livingblues.bsky.social · 2y agoThe 2025 Rose Parade featured a Mississippi-themed float courtesy of Visit Mississippi, the state's tourism board. This commercial aired on TV during the parade; it includes images from Living Blues contributing photographer Bill Steber, and is narrated by Cassandra Wilson. youtu.be/pk2qCgSbd4c
Hard to believe we've been publishing Ponder Review for 10 years. Be part of our second decade!
Ponder Review@ponderreview.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe're starting our 10th year! Won't you join us? Send us your best #fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry, #plays, #art, and #newmedia. Reading 12/15-3/15. #callforsubmissions #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com
Issue 17 is here! #poetry #litmag So many wonderful poets brought together, we can't wait for you to see! Order yours at poetrysouth.submittable.com
Bluesky is finally back in Mississippi! No longer will we have to hitch up the mule and head over to Alabama to post. We did have to verify our age, though. Great for us, but not so great for the mule, who will probably get fat eating all those oats.
Congratulations to Erin Matson, who successfully defended her thesis today! Her reading will be on Wednesday at 6pm CDT on Zoom or our YouTube channel. @brandytwilson.bsky.social
Congratulations and good luck to our Pushcart nominees! Fiction David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1 Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1 CNF Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1 Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2 Poetry Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2 Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2
We always love announcing our Pushcart Prize nominees, though it's always a challenge to make our final choices. Congratulations and best of luck to our six nominees! @pushcartprize.bsky.social #pushcartnominees
We're proud to preview the cover for Issue 17! Poets are reviewing their proofs and soon it will be off to the printer. Order your copy today or send us poems for Issue 18. We are all caught up on submissions and want to start reading again! #submissions #poetry #magazine poetrysouth.submittable.com
We've been hard at work (but not posting)! Issue 17 is nearly done — page proofs were sent to poets this week. We've also caught up on submissions to Nov. 1, so now might be a good time to send us some poems or order your copy of the new issue! poetrysouth.submittable.com
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Poetry South is an international journal that considers all kinds of poetry. Though we pay particular attention to writers from the South — born, raised, or living here — all poetry within our covers ...
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