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The second session of papers organized by the Katherine Anne Porter Society was presented at a Symposium on Women Writers sponsored by the American Literature Association in October 1993 in San Antonio. Virginia Spencer Carr of Georgia State University chaired the session. Three papers were presented: Rae Carlton Colley of Emory University, "'Sick on the Subject of Sex': Porter's Marginalia on D. H. Lawrence"; Janis P. Stout, Texas A&M University, "Katherine Anne Porter's 'Reflections on Willa Cather'"; and Darlene Harbour Unrue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, "Doctor Freud and Miss Katherine Anne Porter." An audience of about twenty-five attended. All three papers drew on marginalia in Porter's personal library, housed at McKeldin Library, the University of Maryland. Colley concluded that "no other artist so inspired Porter" as Lawrence and that her essay "A Wreath for the Gamekeeper" is actually a diatribe against censorship." Stout presented a deconstructive reading of Porter's essay on Cather. Unrue discussed three Freudian subjects that were important to Porter--dreams, children, and the nature of evil.

Thomas F. Walsh's Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico: The Illusion of Eden (University of Texas Press, 1992) won the C. Hugh Holman Award for 1992. The award is presented annually by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature "for the best work of literary scholarship or literary criticism in the field of Southern Literature." Jason Rosenblatt accepted the award for Professor Walsh, who died in 1991. In the Society's presentation statement, Dorothy M. Scura praised Walsh's book as the definitive work on the subject of Porter's years in and relationship with Mexico. "Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico is quite simply," Scura said, "a masterful work by a masterful critic."

Barbara Thompson Davis has accepted the literary trusteeship for the Estate of Katherine Anne Porter. Porter scholars and students have long known the name of Barbara Thompson. More than thirty years ago she conducted the important and often quoted interview with Katherine Anne Porter for the Paris Review (No. 29 [1963], pp. 87-114).

The Founding Committee of the Katherine Anne Porter Society, Virginia Spencer Carr, John Edward Hardy, George Hendrick, Janis P. Stout, and Darlene Harbour Unrue, agreed to re-name itself the Coordinating Committee of The Katherine Anne Porter Society and to invite Dr. Ruth M. (Beth) Alvarez, Curator of Literary Manuscripts at the University of Maryland, which houses the Katherine Anne Porter Archives, to join the five other members on the committee.