The Mississippi Writers Room and Collection is
he Mississippi Writers Room and Collection is a 900 square foot
multipurpose pavilion is located on the first floor of the Eudora
Welty Library. The room presents information regarding this distinguished
group of writers and encourages you to take home for your reading
pleasure books by or about Mississippi authors that are included
in the circulating collection lining the shelves outside this pavilion.
You may also choose films, movies, interviews, documentaries and
audio tapes by or about Mississippians from a collection of tapes
available for circulation on the second floor of the Eudora Welty
Library-Audio Visual Department.
More extensive biographical data about Mississippi's
wealth of novelists,
dramatists, poets, essayists, critics and historians can be found
in the writer portfolios located in this room. The portfolios are
a continuing project of the Jackson/Hinds Library System.
SELF-GUIDED TOURS of this facility are welcomed
during regular hours for the Eudora Welty Library. Special guided
tours by library staff members, or reservation of the room for clubs
or class use, may be arranged by contracting the Welty Branch at
968-5807 or 968-5809.
Be Part of the Story.
Greater Jackson Arts Council
Jackson, Mississippi
601.960.1557 info@jacksonartscouncil.org
The Greater Jackson Arts Council
is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization that works in public/private
partnership with the City of Jackson and the Jackson Convention
& Visitors Bureau. Our agency also receives public funding from
the Mississippi Arts Commission, Hinds County Board of Supervisors,
U.S. Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the
Arts. Additionally, our programs and services are supported by private
foundations, corporate donors, our volunteer board of directors,
and individuals committed to cultural development in the city.
