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Mississippi State University s Department of Communication will virtually host Story State: Fostering Innovative Storytelling on Thursday at 1 p.m.
The event can be found on the Story State website. Event organizer and MSU instructor Josh Foreman said anyone can join to hear successful storytellers from the state of Mississippi speak about their lives and professions.
Foreman said the event is set up like a TED Talk where people can tune in live or go back to watch it on the website any time after the event airs. This way, everyone has an opportunity to learn from some of the best storytellers the state has to offer.
Things are stacked against women’s writing. Can a new prize for women writers really change things?
Novelist Shashi Deshpande fears the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will not add dignity and prestige to women’s writing overnight. Feb 21, 2021 · 08:30 am Eimear McBride, winner of the 2014 Bailey s Women s Prize for Fiction, for A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing . | Neil Hall / Reuters
The announcement of a prize for women writers in the USA and Canada, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, has attracted much attention for two reasons. One, the prize money is very large (150,000 Canadian dollars for the winner alone), next only to the Nobel Prize. And two, the prize is exclusively for women writers.
LLT will continue its 60th Sensational Season with the Mississippi classic WHY I LIVE AT THE P.O. It runs over two weekends for six performances. Evenings are February 26-27 & March 5-6 at 730pm, and on Sundays, February 28 and March 7, the matinees are at 2pm.
The LLT reservation line is now open and answers 24 hours a day at 601.428.0140.
Mississippi author Eudora Welty wrote this short story in 1941 and it became one of her most popular pieces. It was inspired by a photo Welty had taken of a woman ironing clothes in the back of a small Southern post office.
It s a humorous one-woman show told by Sister - the postmistress of the teeny tiny post office in China Grove Mississippi where she lives in the backroom.
Mr. Boyle was at home in Santa Barbara. He declared himself “very, very glad I moved. I got so crazed with the population pressures of L.A., it was driving me nuts. I was living in Woodland Hills where it was 116 degrees in the summer. Here, I’m close to the ocean and it’s a much smaller town and it’s misty and my house is surrounded by trees that were planted back in 1909, so it’s all totally overgrown.”
Quentin, Angelica, and Julian - not far from their aunt s house
Virginia Woolf, in her letters and diaries complains of the problems in acquiring proper clothes the tiresomeness of shopping, of dressing for parties. Other memoirists of the period, writing of Virginia and Vanessa, describe the women’s dress as dowdy and unfashionable. I asked Mr. Bell, who has something of an interest in fashion, what he recalled about his aunt’s dress.