Ellen Morris Prewitt signing event

Name: Ellen Morris Prewitt signing event
Start: 2026-04-16T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-04-16T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Ellen Morris Prewitt signing event

April 16, 2026 @ 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Overview

Story is as strong as reality.

When Etoile moves to New Orleans, she leaves behind in Mississippi a childhood of loss, a host of conflicting memories, and a lot of dead people. Only one of whom perished under suspicious circumstances. But there are rules for living in a magical city such as New Orleans. Etoile realizes this the moment she accidentally conjures a castle and a prince. And a saint. And her three ancestral grannies.

The prince is desperate to find his would-be assassin. Since murder runs in the family, Etoile and her grannies join the quest, and their often-risible, sometimes-precarious trek compels the krewe through history, family, and the inscrutable city. As they search for the fiend, Etoile and the prince-separately and as one-regress and come of age again.

Sometimes destiny arrives in a mist and lingers like the blush of good wine. Award winning Southern writer Ellen Morris Prewitt invokes a surrealistic dream state in When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. Flawlessly set in New Orleans, this fantastic tale of self-discovery will energize the resolve and lighten the spirit.

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 Image, The Pinch, Alaska Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Fourth Genre, Barrelhouse, Porchlight, River Teeth, EAP, Luna Station Quarterly, and Salvation South. She splits her time between Memphis, the Gulf Coast, and New Orleans