• Percival Everett (FULL/SOLD OUT)

    Elliott University Center Auditorium 507 Stirling Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

    Due to overwhelming response, registrations for this event are closed.  The Greensboro Bound Book Festival is thrilled to announce an exciting lead-up event featuring New York Times best-selling author Percival Everett on May 15 at 7 p.m. This highly anticipated evening, presented in partnership with UNCG University Libraries, will feature Everett discussing his acclaimed novel James and his distinguished literary career. This kickoff […]

  • 2025 Greensboro Bound Book Festival

      OUR ALL DAY FESTIVAL IS SATURDAY, MAY 17.  We’ll be exploring themes of family, the many meanings of home, and the past as prologue. We’ll have some serious fun with Taylor Swift songs, flesh out the best obituary ever written, and take a look at how N.C. became a purple state. What happens when […]

  • Reshaping the Divide: An Evening with Cristina Henríquez

    Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

    Join us for a compelling evening with New York Times best-selling author Cristina Henríquez as we close out this year’s Greensboro Bound Book Festival with a powerful, thought-provoking discussion. While the festival takes place May 17, this culminating event on May 28 offers one final opportunity to gather in celebration of literature and storytelling. Henríquez […]

  • Jason Mott: People Like Us

    Scuppernong Books 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC

    Jason Mott: People Like UsThursday, November 13 | 6 PMScuppernong Books Join National Book Award–winning author Jason Mott for an evening celebrating his latest novel, People Like Us. In this bold follow-up to Hell of a Book, Mott continues to blur the lines between reality and imagination, crafting a story that’s equal parts gripping, funny, […]

  • Book Festival Kickoff: Casey McQuiston

    Elliott University Center Auditorium 507 Stirling Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

    DAY 1: Casey McQuiston  Thursday, April 9, 2026 7:00 PM Elliott University Center Free and open to all Casey McQuiston will appear at the 2026 Greensboro Bound Book Festival, April 9–11, as part of American Kaleidoscope, a celebration of diverse voices and stories. The main festival takes place April 11, and we are thrilled to […]

  • Day 2: Alice Martin

    Scuppernong Books 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC

    DAY 2: Alice Martin Friday, April 10, 2026 5:30 PM Scuppernong Books Free and open to all Alice Martin will appear at the 2026 Greensboro Bound Book Festival as part of American Kaleidoscope, a celebration of diverse voices and stories taking place April 9–11 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Westward Women, Martin's debut novel, weaves together […]

  • 2026 Book Festival

    Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N DAVIE STREET, Greensboro, NC, United States

    The 2026 Greensboro Bound Book Festival returns April 9–11 with American Kaleidoscope, a celebration of diverse voices, ideas, and stories across our community. As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, we will spotlight authors and conversations that reflect the strength of our diversity. Like the shifting patterns inside a kaleidoscope, countless individual perspectives will come […]

  • An Evening with Morgan Radford

    Greensboro History Museum 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

    Friday, May 8 6:00 PM Greensboro History Museum Free and open to all Greensboro native and NBC News anchor Morgan Radford returns home to celebrate her debut novel, Now Then. Presented by Greensboro Bound in partnership with the Greensboro Public Library and Scuppernong Books, this special evening highlights Radford’s transition from award-winning journalist to fiction […]