ELLEN MORRIS PREWITT: WHEN WE WERE MURDEROUS TIME-TRAVELING WOMEN
Schedule
Sat, 02 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
387 Perkins Ext, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38117 | Memphis, TN
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Join us as we welcome ELLEN MORRIS PREWITT on SATURDAY, MAY 2 at 2:00 PM to celebrate the release of her new novel WHEN WE WERE MURDEROUS TIME-TRAVELING WOMENABOUT THE BOOK:
Exhilarating. The journey, an unexpectedly concrete one through dreams and relationships past, takes the reader not only into the wonder of a person's inner life, but through the city of New Orleans itself. And that's not half shabby, even without the time traveling grandmothers, the pretender to the French throne, the odd dead rat, and a heroine struggling with her own murderous rage. That rage is the rage of women everywhere, and there's a road map here of how to transform it in the end. Pure visionary fiction. -Tod Davies, editorial director of Exterminating Angel Press and author of The History of Arcadia visionary fiction series
What I've long admired about Ellen Morris Prewitt's writing is fourfold: a boundless imagination, a careful devotion to language, exceptional sensory detail, and pure fearlessness.All those qualities are on full display in this new book which cements her position as one of our best storytellers. Throw in a few unforgettable characters thriving and surviving against a backdrop of troubled history and deep South landscape, and you have an unforgettable novel. We get to meet the narrator's grannies-Tip-Top, Bigmama, and Elfy-summoned for their assistance with a tricky situation. And maybe that's the moral of this story: that our pasts and our predecessors are always there with us, waiting just an incantation away. -Dr. Randy Mackin, Editor-in-Chief, Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ellen Morris Prewitt is an award-winning author and former lawyer who weaves her Southern life—and family secrets—into her fiction. Her stories have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Ellen is a former Peter Taylor Fellow and currently serves as Writer-in-Residence at 100 Men Hall. Her pieces have been featured in major publications such as Luna Station Quarterly, Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature, Gulf Coast, and Arkansas Review. She splits her time between Memphis, the Gulf Coast, and New Orleans.
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