BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Greensboro Bound - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://greensborobound.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Greensboro Bound REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T153000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220322T192411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025332Z UID:8536-1653229800-1653233400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Journalism and Activism DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nJournalists and writers from different backgrounds discuss the importance of engaging equity\, criminal justice\, and community. The press\, and citizen journalists\, provide witness on systemic issues impacting local communities. A conversation with TESSIE CASTILLO\, TARA T. GREEN\, and LYNDEN HARRIS. Hosted by JOE KILLIAN. This panel is in partnership with the PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter.  **The ICRCM requires all guests to wear face coverings. View policy under “Museum Protocols”.** 4/5/22 \nYou may also be interested in:\n• Writing Toward Justice: Non-Fiction as a Call to Action\n• An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones\n• Images of Justice and Power\n• Truth Tellers documentary presentation \n  \nTESSIE CASTILLO is an author\, journalist and public speaker who specializes in stories on prison reform\, drug policy\, restorative justice\, and racial equity. She is the editor of Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row\, an original anthology of writings about the death penalty that features entries by Castillo as well as several current residents of North Carolina’s Death Row. In 2021 Crimson Letters was a finalist for the 2021 Eric Hoffer award for excellence in small press publishing and Castillo received the Victor Hassine Memorial Scholarship at American University for using creative work to educate the public on criminal justice issues. Tessie Castillo lives in Durham\, North Carolina with her daughter. To see more of her writings or to request a speaking engagement with her and her co-authors\, visit www.tessiecastillo.com. \nTARA T. GREEN is an award-winning scholar and professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. She is the author and editor of six books\, including Love\, Activism\, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era. She is from the suburbs of New Orleans. \nLYNDEN HARRIS is the founder of Hidden Voices\, a radically inclusive\, participatory\, and co-creative collective committed to a more just and compassionate world. For twenty years\, Lynden has collaborated with underrepresented communities to create award-winning works that combine narrative\, performance\, mapping\, music\, digital media\, and interactive exhibits. During her decades facilitating community connections\, Lynden developed a participatory workshop model to empower change through collective visioning and collaborative action. This process facilitates a dynamic exchange between documentary\, art\, and community that allows for a multiplicity of voices and a multiplexity of understandings. The former Artistic Director of ArtsCenter Stage\, Lynden was a founding Cultural Agent for the US Department of Arts and Culture and member of the MAP Fund Class of 2017 for Serving Life: ReVisioning Justice. Lynden is a 2020-21 Fellow with A Blade of Grass\, the 2020 recipient of the Ann Atwater Theater Award\, and the 2020 North Carolina Playwriting Fellow. Her music theater work-in-development\, A GOOD BOY\, is currently a semifinalist for the National Music Theater Conference. RIGHT HERE\, RIGHT NOW: Life Stories from America’s Death Row was published by Duke University Press in 2021. \nJOE KILLIAN is a senior investigative reporter at N.C. Policy Watch. His work takes a closer look at government\, politics and policy in North Carolina and their impact on the lives of everyday people. Before joining Policy Watch\, Joe worked in daily newspapers for more than a decade covering cops\, courts\, local and state government\, congressional campaigns and national political conventions. He has worked at the Bristol Press in Bristol\, Connecticut; The Cape Cod Times in Hyannis\, Massachusetts\, and The News & Record in Greensboro\, NC. His work has appeared in daily and weekly papers\, magazines and digital-first publications across the state and country. He is currently working on a book about the politicization of the North Carolina’s public university system. \n  \nSponsored by PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/journalism-and-activism/ LOCATION:International Civil Rights Center & Museum\, 134 SElm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Non-Fiction,Social Justice END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T205914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025404Z UID:8503-1653228000-1653231600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Immigration and Refugee Matters DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n Professor Diya Abdo\, a Palestinian woman whose grandmother once sought refuge in Jordan\, saw the need for a more inclusive approach to help refugees arriving in America. In 2015\, she started the Every Campus a Refuge program\, which has since spread to six other universities in the US\, providing free housing to refugees on campus\, language tutoring\, assistance with job searches\, and an army of volunteers\, many of whom are students in Guilford's ECAR minor. Photo taken April 5\, 2018.\n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nAs the world continues to displace people in astonishing numbers\, Abdo and Haqq bring the personal stories of individual lives effected by the continuing inhumane actions and responses to human suffering. With DIYA ABDO and ELISHEBA HAQQ. Hosted by DR. JOHN COX.  \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life \nDIYA ABDO is the first daughter and granddaughter of Palestinian refugees born in their country of displacement\, Jordan. A graduate of Yarmouk University\, she earned master’s and doctorate degrees from Drew University. She is a full professor in the English department of Guilford College\, where she founded the first chapter of Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR)\, which aims to host global refugees. Diya is the recipient of several national community engagement awards\, including the 2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prize for her work with ECAR. She lives in Greensboro\, NC\, with her partner\, daughters\, and cats. \nELISHEBA HAQQ was born in Chandigarh\, India\, but was brought up in Minnesota\, USA. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and currently teaches writing at Rutgers University. Her work has appeared in A Letter for my Mother\, Gateways\, She.knows.com\, and NJ Monthly. An RN by profession\, she has also been published in Creative Nursing and Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. \n\nDR. JOHN COX is a professor of Global Studies and History at UNC Charlotte\, where he directs the university’s genocide & human rights studies center. He has lectured and published widely on racism\, genocide\, human rights\, and resistance. \n  \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/immigration-and-refugee-matters/ LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T123000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T202542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025451Z UID:8480-1653219000-1653222600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Images of Justice and Power DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nThree artists explore the representation of social justice activism and empowerment through photography and art\, documenting the changing face of the social justice landscape and celebrating the success of a movement. With MALAIKA ADERO\, ST. CLAIR DETRICK-JULES\, and ROBERT SHETTERLY. Hosted by RODNEY DAWSON. **The ICRCM requires all guests to wear face coverings. View policy under “Museum Protocols”.** 4/5/22 \nCompanion event: Truth Tellers documentary showing\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n• An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones\n• A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color \nMALAIKA ADERO\, author of Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the Whitehouse\, A Black Woman Did That: 43 Groundbreaking\, Bar-raising\, World-Changing Women\, and Up South\, is a writer\, editor\, literary agent\, and owner of Adero’s Literary Tribe\, LLC\, a book development company. She lives in New York City and Atlanta. \nST. CLAIR DETRICK-JULES\, author of My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood\, is an award-winning filmmaker\, photographer\, and Brown University graduate. She captures personal stories and intimate moments centering Black liberation\, immigrant justice\, and women’s rights. An Afro-Caribbean artist who remains rooted in her community\, St. Clair grounds her work in radical love\, joy and the knowledge that a more just world is possible. Her work has been featured in Allure Magazine\, The Washington Post\, Washingtonian Magazine\, Byrdie\, and BuzzFeed News\, among others. \nROBERT SHETTERLY is a self-taught artist living on the coast of Maine. Until 9-11 he was primarily a surrealist painter and printmaker. However\, deeply distressed about the propaganda leading up to the Iraq War in 2003\, he began a series of portraits he calls Americans Who Tell the Truth. There are now approximately 260 of them. They travel to schools \, colleges\, museums\, libraries and churches all over this country teaching the necessity of courageous citizenship to close the gap between our ideals and our actions. \n\nRODNEY DAWSON is the Curator of Education for the Greensboro History Museum. He is an Army veteran\, former on-air radio personality\, and former Crisis Prevention Intervention instructor. He received his Ed.S (Education Specialist) degree from Liberty University. He is responsible for a variety of the Museum’s virtual experiences\, including the Juneteenth celebration and a forthcoming Holocaust program. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/images-of-justice-and-power/ LOCATION:International Civil Rights Center & Museum\, 134 SElm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:Documentary,IBPOC Authors,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220201T203549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T122740Z UID:8141-1653159600-1653165000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones DESCRIPTION:**THIS EVENT IS SOLD-OUT** \n  \n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nA Conversation with NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES is the culminating event in the History Of Redlining In East Greensboro: Conversations About Our City’s Past And Present series. This keynote event for the F.D. Bluford Library series will take place as part of the 2022 Greensboro Bound Literary Festival. Nikole Hannah-Jones\, The New York Times Magazine and creator of The 1619 Project will be in conversation with DR. JELANI FAVORS. Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of The 1619 Project\, Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University\, and MacArthur Genius Award Winner. Dr. Jelani M. Favors is the Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor at N.C. A&T and the award-winning author of Shelter in a Time of Storm. Their conversation will be a wide-ranging discussion about Professor Hannah-Jones’ work to chronicle “the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act” and her latest book\, The 1619 Project. \nThe History of Redlining in East Greensboro: Conversations About Our City’s Past and Present was created by F.D. Bluford librarians Carlos Grooms\, Katie Kehoe\, Harvey Long\, and James Stewart at N.C. A&T State University in collaboration with Dudley High School\, Greensboro Bound\, and The Greensboro Public Library. Greensboro Bound\, F.D. Bluford Library at N.C. A&T State University\, and NC Humanities generously supported this project with funds. \nNIKOLE HANNAH-JONES  is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. The New York Times‘s 1619 Project commemorates the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in what would become the United States by examining slavery’s modern legacy and reframing the way we understand this history and the contributions of black Americans to the nation. Nikole’s lead essay\, “Our Democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true\,” was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. Nikole also has written extensively about school resegregation across the country and chronicled the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act. In 2016\, Nikole Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting\, a training and mentorship organization dedicated to increasing the ranks of investigative reporters of color. \nDR. JELANI M. FAVORS is the Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. In 2019\, Dr. Favors released his first book entitled Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism\, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press. Shelter in a Time of Storm was the recipient of the 2020 Stone Book Award presented annually by the Museum of African American History in Boston\, the 2020 Lillian Smith Book Award given yearly by the\nSouthern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries\, and it was one of five finalists for the 2020 Pauli Murray Book Prize presented by the African American Intellectual History Society. Dr. Favors’ research and commentary have appeared in several publications and\nmedia outlets\, including CNN\, C-SPAN\, MSNBC\, The Washington Post\, MarketWatch\, The Atlantic\, The Root\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Point\, and The Conversation. Dr. Favors earned his Ph.D. in History and his M.A. in African American Studies from The Ohio State University. He is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with honor. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/nikole-hannah-jones/ LOCATION:Harrison Auditorium\, NC A&T\, 1009 Bluford Street\, Greenbsoro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Non-Fiction,Social Justice END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T163000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220322T193500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112159Z UID:8424-1653147000-1653150600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:County of Terror: Alamance in the 19th Century DESCRIPTION:Jaki Shelton Green\n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.*\nYou may also be interested in:\n• An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones\n• Images of Justice and Power\n• Truth Tellers documentary presentation\n•A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color\n• Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation\n \n ALEX ALBRIGHT examines the reign of terror the Klan brought to Alamance County to undermine political gains by black people after the Civil War. The family of NC poet laureate JAKI SHELTON GREEN lived in Alamance at the time and suffered the white riotous rage. \nALEX ALBRIGHT A Graham native and UNCG alum\, Alex taught for 37 years in the English Department at East Carolina University\, where he founded the North Carolina Literary Review and served as director of creative writing. His 2013 book The Forgotten First: B-1 and the Integration of the Modern Navy was a finalist for a Montaigne Medal. He has received the R. Hunt Parker Award for contributions to North Carolina literature\, the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities\, and\, with his wife\, Elizabeth\, the Brown-Hudson Award for preserving folk and community traditions. He and Elizabeth operate Fountain General Store near their home in Fountain\, North Carolina. \nJAKI SHELTON GREEN ninth NC Poet Laureate\, teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies. She is an Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellows\, author of eight books of poetry\, and recently appointed as the Poet Laureate in Residence at the NC Museum of Art. \nBRIAN LAMPKIN is an owner of Scuppernong Books and one of the founders of the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival. He is the author of The Tarboro Three: Rape\, Race\, and Secrecy and performs with the band The Difficulties. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/county-of-terror/ LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T201131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T155404Z UID:8494-1653141600-1653145200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:The Truth about Disability: What We Don't Talk About DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nAround 20% of Americans live with a disability\, but for many disability remains a taboo subject. Too often\, the complex experiences of the disabled are reduced to pity or inspiration. On this panel\, three disabled authors of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction discuss their work and what we don’t talk about when we talk about disability. With EMILY MALONEY\, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT\, and JT HILL. Hosted by JT HILL. \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice\n• Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n•  Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation \nEMILY MALONEY is the author of COST OF LIVING (Henry Holt\, 2022). Her work has appeared in Glamour\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Best American Essays\, and the American Journal of Nursing\, among others. In addition to her work as an ER tech\, she has worked as a dog groomer\, horse trainer\, pastry chef\, general contractor\, tile setter\, and catalog model and sold her ceramics at art fairs. She has twice been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and lives in Evanston\, Illinois. \nKAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet\, essayist\, cultural strategist\, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell. Their second book\, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have received fellowships from VONA Voices\, Monson Arts\, Macondo\, and The Lambda Literary Review. They have featured at The United Nations\, The Lincoln Center\, The Hemispheric Institute\, Symphony Space\, Brooklyn Museum\, Dodge Poetry\, The Poetry Foundation\, The School of the Arts Institute\, Manchester PRIDE\, Sesame Street\, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, Academy of American Poets\, Colorlines\, Asian American Literary Review\, The Advocate\, Al Jazeera\, NYLON\, Vogue\, The Rumpus\, The Lily\, VIDA Review\, and elsewhere. Currently\, they serve as a curator at The Asian American Writer’s Workshop. \nJT HILL Hill is the author of a memoir\, Blind Man’s Bluff\, coming July 2021 from W. W. Norton. His fiction debut\, Academy Gothic\, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His essays have been listed as Notable in the 2019 and 2020 editions of Best American Essays\, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Writer’s Digest\, Story Quarterly\, and Hobart\, among others. He serves as fiction editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle and contributing editor for Literary Hub\, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. He lives in Greensboro\, North Carolina with his wife. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/the-truth-about-disability/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Poetry END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220322T195820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112202Z UID:8418-1653141600-1653145200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Afternoon Delight DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nSay goodbye to your mom’s harlequin bodice rippers\, romance has gotten a makeover! From sleek new cover designs you actually want on your shelf (so long\, busty corsets!) to rethinking what romance storytelling can mean\, the new romance has become one of the fast-expanding genres\, and with good reason. Romance authors are pushing the bounds of what’s possible\, experimenting with form and structure in ways that were once reserved for “literary” novels and widening the view of whose love stories get to be told. Everyone deserves to be the hero of a smutty romcom\, and that’s what this panel embodies: the new\, inclusive face of romance and the authors pushing the genre onto bold new ground. Join us for a rip-roarin’ good time with CHERIS HODGES\, TIMOTHY JANOVSKY\, and THIEN-KIM LAM. Hosted by SHANNON JONES. \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n\n \nAward winning author CHERIS HODGES was bitten by the writing bug at an early age and always knew she wanted to be a writer. She wrote her first romance novel\, Revelations\, after having a vivid dream about the characters. She hopped out of bed at 2 A.M. and started writing. A graduate of Johnson C. Smith University and a winner of the North Carolina Press Association’s community journalism award\, Cheris lives in Charlotte\, North Carolina\, where she is a freelance journalist. She loves hearing from her readers. Follow Cheris on Twitter @cherishodges\, friend her on Facebook at Cheris Hodges. \nTIMOTHY JANOVSKY  is a queer\, multidisciplinary storyteller from New Jersey. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Muhlenberg College and a self-appointed certificate in rom-com studies (accreditation pending). When he’s not daydreaming about young Hugh Grant\, he’s telling jokes\, playing characters\, and writing books. Never Been Kissed is his first novel. \nTHIEN-KIM LAM writes stories about Vietnamese characters who smash stereotypes and find their happy endings. A recovering Type-Asian\, she guzzles cà phê sữa đá\, makes art\, and bakes her feelings to stay sane. Thien-Kim is also the founder of Bawdy Bookworms\, a subscription box that pairs sexy romances with erotic toys. She’s been featured on Jezebel\, NPR\, BBC America\, and Glamour. Her debut novel Happy Endings is now available\, and her forthcoming book will be released in 2022 \nSHANNON PURDY JONES is co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro\, NC. She holds a BS in Evolutionary Biology from Appalachian State University. Her reading life is a disaster zone of general fiction\, sci-fi\, romance\, queer studies and science nonfiction. As a bookseller she doesn’t believe in book shaming or book snobbery\, and wants everyone who walks into her shop to feel at home no matter what they’re reading. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/afternoon-delight/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction,Romance END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T143000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T193053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T010507Z UID:8412-1653139800-1653143400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Everywhere We Belong DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nThree award-winning Black authors bring their unique voices to bear on what it means to be black and male in 21st Century America. Whether writing about unknown facets of the Civil War\, a father’s estranged relationship with his son\, or an average kid growing up in Chicago\, each offers keen insight on the struggles of the present and how the past comes to bear on that present. With DANIEL BLACK\, GABRIEL BUMP\, and DAVID WRIGHT FALADÉ.Hosted by GALE GREENLEE. \nDANIEL BLACK  is professor of African American Studies at Clark Atlanta University. A native of Kansas City\, Kansas\, yet spent the majority of his childhood years in Blackwell\, Arkansas. He is an associate professor at his alma mater\, Clark Atlanta University\, where he now aims to provide an example to young Americans of the importance of self-knowledge and communal commitment. He is the author of They Tell Me of a Home and The Sacred Place. \nGABRIEL BUMP grew up in South Shore\, Chicago. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times\, McSweeney’s\, The Best American Short Stories\, and elsewhere. His debut novel\, Everywhere You Don’t Belong\, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence\, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction\, the Heartland Booksellers Award for Fiction\, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award. Bump is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \nDAVID WRIGHT FALADÉ is a professor of English at the University of Illinois and a 2021-2022 Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. He is the co-author of the young adult novel Away Running and the nonfiction book Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers\, which was a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis-Dispatch Best Book of 2001. The recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award\, he has written for the New Yorker\, Village Voice\, Southern Review\, Newsday\, and more. \nGALE GREENLEE is a Greensboro native\, freelance editor and independent scholar of African American literature. She was a visiting assistant professor at Berea College and the inaugural ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow at The Ohio State University. She holds a doctorate in African American literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and her work focuses on Black and Latinx girlhoods and social justice in kids and young adult literature. She recently served as a fellow with the African American Policy Forum’s Black Girls Matter project and has a forthcoming essay in a College Literature’s special issue\, “Children\, Too\, Sing America.” As an aspiring children’s author\, she’s currently writing about Black children and green spaces. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/everywhere-we-belong/ LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:Historical Fiction,IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T192207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112204Z UID:8409-1653138000-1653141600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH and ASHLEY LUMPKIN. \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation \nCRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH is the author of two poetry chapbooks\, Routes Home\, Finishing Line Press (2013) and Running Music\, Longleaf Press (2014). She is also the author of Wildflowers: Haiku\, Senryu\, and Haibun (2016). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including: Callaloo\, Nimrod\, Barrow Street\, Obsidian II: Literature in the African Diaspora\, African American Review\, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. She is an alumna of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Yale Summer Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Durham\, NC with her husband and two sons where she teaches English Composition and Creative Writing. She is the Managing Editor of Backbone Press. \nASHLEY LUMPKIN is a Georgia-raised\, Carolina-based writer\, editor\, actor\, and educator. She is the author of five poetry collections. A lover of performance as well as the written word\, she has been a competing member of the Bull City Slam Team since 2015 and currently serves as its assistant coach. She is one-fifth (and only Slytherin member) of the Big Dreams Collective and currently serves on the board of the North Carolina Poetry Society. Above all else\, Ashley considers herself a teacher\, poet\, and fryer of food. She is a lover of mathematics and language. She loves you too. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/publishing-for-people-of-color/ LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T190905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112204Z UID:8403-1653134400-1653139800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith ELISHEBA HAQQ and MEGAN CULHANE GALBRAITH. Hosted by LEE ZACHARIAS. \nYou May also be interested in:  \n• Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir\n• $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen\n• Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith\n•Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n•Immigration and Refugee Matters \n  \nELISHEBA HAQQ was born in Chandigarh\, India\, but was brought up in Minnesota\, USA. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and currently teaches writing at Rutgers University. Her work has appeared in A Letter for my Mother\, Gateways\, She.knows.com\, and NJ Monthly. An RN by profession\, she has also been published in Creative Nursing and Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. \nMEGAN CULHANE GALBRAITH is a writer\, visual artist\, and adoptee. She is the author of The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press\, May 2021) a hybrid memoir-in-essays that pairs narrative with images to weave a personal and cultural history of adoption as it relates to guilt\, shame\, grief\, identity\, and memory itself. She connects her experiences to those of generations of adoptees\, to the larger stories America tells about sex and motherhood\, and to the shadows those stories cast on us all. She was named one of the “5 Over 50” by Poets & Writers in 2021. Her work was Notable in Best American Essays 2021 and 2017 and her writing and art have featured in BOMB\, HYPERALLERGIC!\, The Believer\, Tupelo Quarterly\, ZZYZYVA\, Hobart\, Longreads\, Hotel Amerika\, Catapult\, and Redivider\, among others. She has been awarded fellowships by The Saltonstall Foundation\, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and The Horned Dorset Colony. Megan is a graduate of and the Associate Director at the Bennington Writing Seminars and the founding director of the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Young Writers Institute. \n\nLEE ZACHARIAS is the author of a collection of short stories\, a collection of essays\, and four novels. Her third novel\, Across the Great Lake\, a 2019 Notable Michigan Book\, won a silver medal in literary fiction from the Independent Publisher Awards\, the 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh Award\, the 2020 Philip H. McMath Book Award. Her fourth novel\, What a Wonderful World This Could Be\, was a finalist for the 2021 American Fiction Awards and has been chosen as a Distinguished Favorite by the 2021 NYC Big Book Awards and the 2022 Independent Press Awards. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/lost-mothers/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T191601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T155942Z UID:8406-1653134400-1653138000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Exploring a Future\, Changing the Past (Sci-fi/Fantasy) DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nScience Fiction and fantasy explore new worlds; some are light years away or hundreds of years in the future\, some are new perspectives on our shared past. They can be intimate stories of a single person or sprawling narratives of an entire culture. Three writers talk about what drew them to the genre and what continues to thrill them. With MONICA BYRNE\, T FROHOCK\,and CADWELL TURNBULL.Hosted by JL HERNDON. \nMONICA BYRNE is a novelist\, playwright\, and screenwriter who resides in North Carolina. Her first novel\, The Girl in the Road\, received the 2015 Otherwise Award\, and her second novel\, The Actual Star\, was published in September 2021. \nT FROHOCK has turned a love of history and dark fantasy into tales of deliciously creepy fiction. She is the author of Miserere: An Autumn Tale\, and the Los Nefilim series from Harper Voyager. Her works\, Where Oblivion Lives and Carved from Stone and Dream\, were both short-listed for the Manly Wade Wellman award in 2020 and 2021 respectively. A native North Carolinian\, T. has long been accused of telling stories\, which is a southern colloquialism for lying. \nCADWELL TURNBULL is the author of The Lesson and No Gods\, No Monsters. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge\, Lightspeed\, Nightmare\, Asimov’s Science Fiction and several anthologies\, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. His novel The Lesson was the winner of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category. The novel was also shortlisted for the VCU Cabell Award and longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award. His latest novel No Gods\, No Monsters was longlisted for the Pen Open Book Award. Turnbull lives in Raleigh and teaches at North Carolina State University. \n\nJL HERNDON (he/him) is an author of speculative fiction and poetry. All his characters are Black unless otherwise noted. A psychologist by training\, he is fascinated by people\, families\, and their relationships. His work appears in Star*Line Magazine\, Inkwell Black\, Visual Verse\, and Serotonin. Originally from Texas\, he now resides in Greensboro\, NC with his wife and dog. You can find him lurking on Twitter @jl_herndon. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/exploring-a-future/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction,Sci-fi/Fantasy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T123000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T190450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T155607Z UID:8400-1653132600-1653136200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Upon Her Shoulders: Native Women and the South DESCRIPTION:Mary Ann Jacobs\n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n Cherry Beasley\n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith a focus on southeast Native women\, Beasley and Jacobs share stories from an anthology they edited on justice\, spirit\, and community. With DRS. CHERRY BEASLEY and MARY ANN JACOBS. Hosted by ROBIN MIURA. \nCHERRY BEASLEY\, PhD\, RN\, FAAN is an experienced nurse stiving to impact the health of populations from rural settings\, underserved area and indigenous communities. As an educator\, her longest tenure at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Beasley\, a native of Pembroke and an active member of the Lumbee Tribe\, was the first nursing faculty member hired at UNCP and has been instrumental in the development and growth of nursing and health profession programs at UNCP\, where she is the chief officer for the McKenzie-Elliott School of Nursing and the interim Dean of the College of Health Sciences. Dr. Beasley is a recipient of the coveted UNC Board of Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Beasley finds synergy in her research and service interests by focusing on health care decision making and health care behaviors of rural and/or minority populations. Dr. Beasley works extensively with populations in participatory community outreach and research to address health disparities and to improve the quality of health care in rural communities. She is using participatory methodologies to address poor health outcomes experienced by populations with excessive death and disabilities. Most recently her work has focused on the drives of health including poverty\, empowerment\, food sovereignty\, and environmental justice\, and disparities of health data. Her strongly committed to others understanding the value\, culture and healthcare needs of rural\, minority or underserved populations\, led her being selected as the inaugural appointment as Anna Belk Endowed Professor for Rural and Minority Health. Dr. Beasley is the proud mother of a son\, Zeb and his wife Katie\, and a daughter\, Mary-Joyce and her husband Brian. She is very excited to be the grandmother of five. \nDR. MARY ANN JACOBS is an associate professor and chair of American Indian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She teaches courses with a focus on American Indian Studies\, American Indian identity\, education\, and cultural competency. She was previously the director of American Indian Studies at California State University\, Long Beach (1990–1996) and an assistant professor of social work at San Diego State University (2005–2007). Dr. Jacobs is the co-editor of one book and the author of several peer-reviewed articles\, book sections\, and reports dealing with American Indian women\, STEM education for American Indian (AI) students\, historical trauma\, foster care\, racial identity\, Chicago’s AI community\, AI lesbians and gays\, child welfare policies for Indigenous children\, and decolonizing methods. Dr. Jacobs\, her husband\, and children are enrolled members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Dr. Jacobs and her husband attend Mt. Airy Baptist Church in Pembroke. \nROBIN MIURA is Senior Editor and Associate Publisher at Blair and has worked in publishing for more than 20 years. She has worked with all types of books\, but her passion is literary fiction and creative nonfiction. She is also a founding editor of the online magazine South Writ Large. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/upon-her-shoulders/ LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Literary Fiction,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T155349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T154109Z UID:8396-1653130800-1653134400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation DESCRIPTION:This event is SOLD OUT.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n**THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT**\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nFrom three unique perspectives\, these poets offer witness\, vulnerability\, and fierce attention to the troubled and yet still exquisite times. With CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH\, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT\, and STUART DISCHELL. Hosted by MICHAEL GASPENY. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color\n• Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n• Authors with Disabilities panel \n  \nCRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH is the author of two poetry chapbooks\, Routes Home\, Finishing Line Press (2013) and Running Music\, Longleaf Press (2014). She is also the author of Wildflowers: Haiku\, Senryu\, and Haibun (2016). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including: Callaloo\, Nimrod\, Barrow Street\, Obsidian II: Literature in the African Diaspora\, African American Review\, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. She is an alumna of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Yale Summer Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Durham\, NC with her husband and two sons where she teaches English Composition and Creative Writing. She is the Managing Editor of Backbone Press. \n KAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet\, essayist\, cultural strategist\, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell. Their second book\, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have received fellowships from VONA Voices\, Monson Arts\, Macondo\, and The Lambda Literary Review. They have featured at The United Nations\, The Lincoln Center\, The Hemispheric Institute\, Symphony Space\, Brooklyn Museum\, Dodge Poetry\, The Poetry Foundation\, The School of the Arts Institute\, Manchester PRIDE\, Sesame Street\, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, Academy of American Poets\, Colorlines\, Asian American Literary Review\, The Advocate\, Al Jazeera\, NYLON\, Vogue\, The Rumpus\, The Lily\, VIDA Review\, and elsewhere. Currently\, they serve as a curator at The Asian American Writer’s Workshop. \nSTUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road (Viking)\, a National Poetry Series Selection\, Evenings & Avenues (Penguin)\, Dig Safe (Penguin)\, Backwards Days (Penguin)\, Standing on Z (Unicorn)\, Children with Enemies (Chicago)\, and the forthcoming The Lookout Man (Chicago). A recipient of awards from the NEA\, the North Carolina Arts Council\, the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation. and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, he is the Class of 1952 Excellence Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. \nMICHAEL GASPENY is the author of the novella in verse\, The Tyranny of Questions (Unicorn Press) and the chapbooks Re-Write Men and Vocation. He has won the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition and the O. Henry Festival Short Fiction Contest. His novel\, Postcard from the Delta\, is forthcoming from Livingston Press. For hospice service\, he has received The (North Carolina) Governor’s Award for Volunteer Excellence. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/whatever-wholeness-means/ LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,Poetry END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T110000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T154535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220512T220320Z UID:8391-1653127200-1653130800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Writing Toward Justice: Non-Fiction as a Call to Action DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nJournalists and writers from different backgrounds discuss the importance of engaging equity\, criminal justice\, and community. The press\, and citizen journalists\, provide witness on systemic issues impacting local communities.  A conversation with DR. BENJAMIN GILMER\, WANDA SMALLS LLOYD and PHOEBE ZERWICK. Hosted by DEONNA KELLI SAYED. This panel is in partnership with the PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• Writing Toward Justice: Non-Fiction as a Call to Action\n• An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones\n• Images of Justice and Power\n• Truth Tellers documentary presentation \nBENJAMIN GILMER\, MD\, is a family medicine physician and medical educator. He is an International Albert Schweitzer Fellow for Life and associate professor in the department of family medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill and at the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC). A former neurobiologist turned rural family doctor\, Dr. Gilmer has lectured widely about medical ethics\, rural health\, and the intersection of medicine and criminal justice reform. He is a passionate teacher of medical education and leads MAHEC’s Rural Health Initiative\, a program to inspire and train students to pursue rural medicine. The Other Dr. Gilmer is his first book\, resulting from a true story he told on This American Life with Sarah Koenig\, now one of its most listened to podcasts. The story has inspired Benjamin to be an advocate for prison and mental health reform. He lives with his wife\, Deirdre; their two children\, Kai and Luya; and their dog\, Prince Peanut Butter\, in Asheville\, North Carolina. \nWANDA LLOYD parlayed her passion for storytelling when she transitioned from journalism to writing non-fiction. Her memoir\, COMING FULL CIRCLE: From Jim Crow to Journalism\, was published in 2020. The book is an engaging\, charmingly written self-reflective volume of stories about growing up as an African American girl in the Jim Crow South\, where despite her segregated circumstances\, she dared to become a daily newspaper journalist. She not only became a journalist\, but her career took her to some of the highest levels of newsroom positions\, and included her work as an editor at The Washington Post and USA Today. She also launched and led university journalism programs as a way to prepare future journalists of color. When Lloyd retired after more than eight years as executive editor of the Montgomery Advertiser in Alabama’s capital city\, she accepted a position as associate professor and chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Savannah State University. A newspaper editor for more than four decades\, she now writes from her home in Savannah\, Georgia\, the city where she grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2020\, Lloyd co-edited (with novelist Tina McElroy Ansa) MEETING AT THE TABLE: African-American Women Write on Race\, Culture and Community\, a collective of essays written after the tragic deaths of George Floyd\, Breonna Taylor\, Ahmaud Arbery and others. Lloyd and Ansa are also co-executive producers and co-hosts of the podcast\, 2 Old Chicks Who Know a Lot of Sh*t! on Spotify and YouTube. Spelman College\, her alma mater\, awarded Lloyd an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2016. In 2019 she was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. \nPHOEBE ZERWICK is an award-winning investigative journalist\, narrative writer\, and college teacher. Her writing has appeared in O\, The Oprah Magazine; National Geographic; The Nation; the Winston-Salem Journal; and Glamour\, among other publications. Her work has been recognized by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University\, Investigative Reporters and Editors\, the Society of Professional Journalists\, Columbia University\, and the North Carolina Press Association and featured in the HBO documentary The Trials of Darryl Hunt. She is the director of the journalism program at Wake Forest University. \nDEONNA KELLI SAYED is an author\, TEDx speaker\, and performer based in Greensboro\, North Carolina. Her short stories and essays are featured in numerous online journals and anthologies. She is the PEN America North Carolina Piedmont Representative and works for the North Carolina Writers’ Network. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSponsored by PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/writing-toward-justice/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Non-Fiction,Social Justice END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T110000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T153814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112115Z UID:8389-1653127200-1653130800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nThree Asian-American authors use their work to discuss the rise in violence toward Asian-Americans while exploring the complex joys and responsibilities of writing and identity. With MICHAEL CROLEY\, H’RINA DeTROY\, and THIEN-KIM LAM. Hosted by SAYAKA MATSUOKA. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• Immigration and Refugee Matters\n• Afternoon Delight \nMICHAEL CROLEY is the author of Any Other Place: Stories\, winner of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Weatherford Award. He is also the co-editor (with Jack Shuler) of Midland: Reports from Flyover Country. His reporting\, stories\, and essays have appeared in Esquire\, The New York Times\, Bloomberg Businessweek\, VQR\, The Paris Review\, Kenyon Review\, LitHub\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Ohio Arts Council\, the Kentucky Arts Council\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches at Denison University and is on the visiting faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.\n \nH’RINA DeTROY is a Montagnard American writer based in Brooklyn. She was the recipient of the 2020 Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Grant in Literature and a 2019 Emerging Writer Fellowship at Aspen Word in Memoir. Roxane Gay selected her essay entitled “The Vengeance of Elephants” for the 2017 Curt Johnson Prose Prize in Creative Nonfiction for December Magazine. She holds a Master of Arts in Journalism and MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. She’s a teacher and working with the Montagnard Dega Association and the city of Greensboro\, she created the ground-breaking workshop\, “Apocalypse Never: Writing Our Origin Stories and Imaginative Futures as Montagnard Americans.” A contributing editor for DiaCRITICS\, she focuses amplifying Montagnard and other indigenous\, ethnic minority voices of Southeast Asian diasporas. \nTHIEN-KIM LAM writes stories about Vietnamese characters who smash stereotypes and find their happy endings. A recovering Type-Asian\, she guzzles cà phê sữa đá\, makes art\, and bakes her feelings to stay sane. Thien-Kim is also the founder of Bawdy Bookworms\, a subscription box that pairs sexy romances with erotic toys. She’s been featured on Jezebel\, NPR\, BBC America\, and Glamour. Her debut novel Happy Endings is now available\, and her forthcoming book will be released in 2022. \n  \nSAYAKA MATSUOKA is a freelance journalist and managing editor for Triad City Beat\, an alternative weekly newspaper based in Greensboro covering the Triad. She was born in NY but raised in Greensboro. She writes mostly for the paper these days\, about anything from cultural events and food to right-wing extremism and police brutality. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/borderlands-and-crossroads/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,Literary Fiction,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Romance,Short Stories END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T152702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T154429Z UID:8675-1653075000-1653080400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Hell of a State: North Carolina's Literary Fire DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \n2021 National Book Award winner and North Carolina native JASON MOTT  is joined by award-winning author and Greensboro’s own HOLLY GODDARD JONES as they talk about their recent work and writing from the Old North State. North Carolina Writers Network director ED SOUTHERN will moderate the conversation.  With a pre-conversation performance by COLIN CUTLER of songs inspired by the short stories of Flannery O’Connor. \n  \nJASON MOTT Bestselling author\, National Book Award Winner\, Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction Winner\, Pushcart Prize nominee\, and Carnegie Medals For Excellence Longlist nominee\, Jason Mott has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry\, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is the author of two poetry collections and four novels. The Returned\, Jason’s debut novel\, was adapted for television and aired on the ABC network under the title “Resurrection.” Jason’s fourth novel\, Hell Of A Book\, released in June 2021\, was a Jenna Bush Hager “Read With Jenna” Book Club pick\, Carnegie Medals For Excellence in Fiction Longlist selection\, a 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist selection\, a Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist selection\, the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Prize for Fiction winner\, and the winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. \nHOLLY GODDARD JONES is the author of three previous books of fiction\, including THE SALT LINE\, THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME\, and GIRL TROUBLE. She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at UNCG. \nED SOUTHERN is the executive director of the North Carolina Writers’ Network\, and the author of ‘Fight Songs: A Story of Love & Sports in a Complicated South\,’ a finalist for the 2022 SIBA Southern Book Prize. His work has appeared in The Bitter Southerner\, storySouth\, the North Carolina Literary Review\, and elsewhere. \nCOLIN CUTLER is a Greensboro-based singer-songwriter\, short story writer\, and poet toting a banjo\, guitar\, and harmonicas\, with his musical roots drawing from the breadth of Americana—from Appalachian oldtime to gospel to country to roots rock. He holds an MA in English from UNC-Greensboro\, an MA in creative writing from York St. John University\, has taken a NC Poetry Society Gilbert-Chappell mentorship and had short stories and poetry published in The York Journal\, The Catholic Poetry Room\, with honorable mention from NC’s poet Laureate\, Jaki Shelton Green. He is currently working on an expansion of his Peacock Feathers EP into an album of songs based on Flannery O’Connor’s short stories\, and has performed for the International Flannery O’Connor Society and Andalusia Farm. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/mott-jones/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Literary Fiction,Short Stories END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T113513 CREATED:20220325T145702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T154454Z UID:8378-1653066000-1653069600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:A Musical Thriller: Brendan Slocumb and Tona Brown in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nBRENDAN SLOCUMB’S  The Violin Conspiracy is a best-selling crime/thriller for the classical world and TONA BROWN’S work has thrilled audiences from Carnegie Hall to the White House with both her voice and violin. This one-of-a-kind conversation will only happen at Greensboro Bound! Hosted by DR. REBECCA MacLEOD. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice\n \nBRENDAN SLOCUMB was raised in Fayetteville\, North Carolina\, and holds a degree in music education (with concentrations in violin and viola) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more than twenty years he has been a public and private school music educator and has performed with orchestras throughout Northern Virginia\, Maryland\, and Washington\, DC. He is currently working on his second novel. \nTONA BROWN Vocalist\, violinist\, entrepreneur\, and teacher Tona Brown has an international performance career throughout the United States\, Canada\, and Europe as a violinist and mezzo-soprano. Ms. Brown is also an advocate for transgender issues in the arts\, often speaking and performing at colleges and universities. She is the first transgender woman of color to perform the National Anthem for a sitting President at the LGBT Leadership Gala Dinner for former President Barack Obama at the Sheraton in NYC. She is also the first transgender woman to headline at Carnegie Hall in a program of African-American composers with an all-inclusive LGBT cast of performers. Ms. Brown graduated from the Governor’s School for the Arts\, a prestigious high school for gifted and talented students. She was formally educated at the Shenandoah University and Conservatory of Music\, studying violin performance with minors in viola\, piano\, and voice. For Shenandoah University’s 2021 production of “Suor Angelica”\, she recorded an opera movie\, playing the role of La Zia Principessa. Ms. Brown will be performing in a lead transgender role as Hannah After in the opera “As One” by Laura Kaminsky with the Lowell Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Orlando Cela in the fall of 2021. Ms. Brown was also asked to do a masterclass on Transgender Voices by the Virginia National Association of Teachers. She teaches private lessons to students with her company Aida Studios. \nDR. REBECCA MacLEOD is Professor of Music Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro\, where she directs the string education program and conducts the UNCG Sinfonia. She is the author of Teaching Strings in Today’s Classroom and is published in Journal of Research in Music Education\, International Journal of Music Education\, Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education\, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education\, Journal of Music Teacher Education\, String Research Journal\, Psychology of Music\, The Strad\, American String Teachers Journal\, and various state music education journals. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education\, the String Research Journal\, and as guest reviewer for the International Journal of Research in Music Education. She is the recipient of the UNCG School of Music\, Theatre and Dance Outstanding Teaching Award\, the American String Teacher Association National Researcher Award\, and the UNCG Junior Research Excellence Award. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/slocumb-brown/ LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, UNCG School of Music\, 100 McIver Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction,Mystery/Thriller END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR