Project Opportunities
Ways you can participate in and support the activities of The Walker Percy Project
Like what you see? Want to participate in or support The Walker Percy Project?
Here are a few ways to make your voice heard.

Ongoing Opportunities
For General Readers and more
- Read the Director's Welcome
- Join Discussion on Percy-L
- Buy Some Percy Books
- Share How Reading Percy Changed You
- Recommend
The Project to a Friend
Project Submission Opportunities
Enrich the Project's content holdings for others to benefit from
- All Readers — Consider helping to promote the Project.
- Scholars — Submit new content proposals for adding additional content to the Project. Contact the Project for Submissions Guidelines.
- Graduate Seminars (for professors) — Contribute Scholarly Book Annotations for your next Graduate Seminar on Walker Percy (for professors).
- High School and Undergraduate Courses — Have your students short written responses to any Walker Percy novel or essay in a Project discussion forum as a classroom assignment. Percy's essay "The Loss of the Creature" is useful for composition classes.
- Educators — Submit Teaching Materials on Walker Percy useful to other educators. Contact the Project to set-up custom student discussion areas for classroom exercises.
Other Places to Contribute Your Voice
Participate in Outside Walker Percy Events & Activities
(Selected information is subject to change. Join the Percy-L Listserv Community for the latest news of events and activities.)
- The Walker Percy Weekend (Public event). Held in late May in St. Francisville, La. Features panels and presentations and celebratory events for the public. Opens in a new window.
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The Walker Percy Society (Professional activities). Join the Percy-L Listserv Community for the latest news of society events and activities. The Walker Percy Society holds periodic conference sessions and promotes academic inquiry into Percy's writings and philosophical thought. -
Local Discussion Group of The Moviegoer. Form your own neighborhood discussion group of Percy's classic novel The Moviegoer using the Project's resources for the book. [Contact the Project]
Don't let Walker Percy Become Lost in the Cosmos
Sponsor future development of The Walker Percy Project
The Walker Percy Project is a volunteer effort. Though hosted
by the Ibiblio Network of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Project is not formally associated with any university, government, state, or other agency.
Fostering Inquiry into the Life, Work, and Thought of
20th Century American Writer and Philosopher Walker Percy
20th Century American Writer and Philosopher Walker Percy