In 2009 , the Eudora Welty Newsletter metamorphosed into the Eudora Welty Review, an annual journal, published each April. The innaugural issue contains essays chosen from past Eudora Welty Newsletters. Beginning in 2010, the Eudora Welty Review will publish lengthier scholarly essays, inaugurate a book review section, and maintain regular features for news and notes, textual analyses, checklists, and new archival materials, still with appropriate illustrative materials. Additional scholars have been invited to assist EWR editors as peer reviewers and members of the Advisory Board.

EWR editors are currently accepting essay submissions for the 2010 issue. For information about submissions, please see our Guidelines.

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty in National Book Award Contest

NEW YORK (AP) - The National Book Awards would like your vote.

Organizers of the prestigious literary prize are asking the public to choose the
best fiction winner in the awards' 60-year history.

The six finalists, announced Monday by the National Book Foundation, are: "The
Stories of John Cheever," Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," William Faulkner's
"Collected Stories," "The Complete Stories" of Flannery O'Connor,
Thomas Pynchon's
"Gravity Rainbow" and "The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty."

Voting continues through Oct. 21, votes can be cast through the Web site

Click here to vote: http://www.nationalbook.org/nbafictionpoll.html

Highlights of the Centennial Year

November 17-19, 2009 :
“Eudora Welty: a Centenary” International Conference
University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy
in cooperation with Georgia State University
Under the auspices of the American Embassy, Associazione Italiana
 Studi Nordamericani, Centro Studi Americani
AUDITORIUM SANTA MARGHERITA
Campo Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro 3689

Contact Monica Pavani for info: mopipavani@libero.it

October 2009 :
Premiere of Welty's "State Fair" painting
Mississippi Museum of Art

April 18, 2009 :
Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Welty Tribute

April 17, 2009 :
Concert featuring prominent recording artists in celebration of Welty

April 16-18, 2009 :
Joint Conference of the Southern Literary Festival and the Eudora Welty Society

April 14-26, 2009 :
New Stage Theatre Presents The Ponder Heart

April 13, 2009 :
Birthday Celebration at the Eudora Welty House, Jackson, MS
Danièle Pitavy-Souques Lecture, Georgia State Unversity, Atlanta, GA
Birthday Celebration at the Rialto, Atlanta, GA

April 11, 2009 :
Mississippi Opening of the Lugene Photography Exhibit
Mississippi Museum of Art

March 2009 :
Welty House Inducted into the Southern Literary Trail

November 2008-January 2009 :
Remounting of Welty's 1936 Lugene Photography Exhibit
Museum of the City of New York

For more information visit the Eudora Welty Foundation website at www.eudorawelty.org