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Nearing Vicksburg

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 7, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation.

I drove the narrow, wooded road until nearing Vicksburg where the green overhang opened up to cotton and soybean fields. The road into town, Clay Street, drops you right off at the Vicksburg National Park. The Civil War siege of Vicksburg, and the city’s July 4th, 1863, surrender gave Union forces control over the Mississippi […]

The Vicksburg Massacres Remembrance

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 8, 2024. Posted in Featured, General.

After much meeting and planning, it’s on its way!

Mississippi Free Press and Me

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 29, 2024. Posted in Featured, Racism to Reconciliation.

I’m a little Piglet when it comes to publishing my work, full of fear. Talking about this in the Mississippi Free Press amplifies it by 100.

Achievements

ACHIEVEMENTS THE LATEST I’m so excited! I got accepted into the Deep South Convening on the Future Success of American Writers. Only 100 of us, by invitation or application. I’m going as a proselytizer for using writing groups to create community. A tad daunting. But my passion will propel me forward. We’ll be meeting in […]