NEWS RELEASE
8/8/2010
Annual Welty Prize Awarded to
Gulf Coast Writer Ellis Anderson
JACKSON, Miss. — Ellis Anderson, author of Under Surge, Under Siege: The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina, has been named the 2010 recipient of the annual Welty Prize book award, to be presented at the Eudora Welty Writer’s Symposium in October. Each year Mississippi University for Women and the University Press of Mississippi collaborate to award the Welty Prize for a book of scholarship on Women's Studies, Southern Studies, or Modern Letters.
In Under Surge, Under Siege, Ellis Anderson - who rode out the storm in her Bay St. Louis home - offers a survivor's tale of the hurricane's destruction and a community's enduring determination. A blend of memoir, personal diary, and journalism, the lyrical style of Under Surge, Under Siege creates a modern-day American testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Awarded annually since 1990, the Welty Prize serves to honor and promote scholarship in the fields of Women's Studies, Southern Studies, and Literature. As this year’s Welty Prize honoree, Anderson will speak at the symposium at MUW in October. For further information about the upcoming Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium please visit http://www.muw.edu/welty/index.php.
For more information contact:
Clint Kimberling
UPM Publicist
