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SUMMARY:Craft\, Violence\, and the Art of Storytelling with Rod Davis\, John Hart\, and Dennis McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:Join us in conversation with novelists JOHN HART\, ROD DAVIS\, and DENNIS McCARTHY. Hart’s latest novel\, The Unwilling\, is a thriller framed around the consequences of the Vietnam War for those who served. It is described as “crime fiction at its most raw\,” which aptly describes the work of novelist Rod Davis as well. Publisher’s Weekly describes Davis’s 2020 novel East of Texas\, West of Hell as a “crime powerhouse–a maelstrom of meth-dealing\, human trafficking\, and white supremacy. Davis is a great guide through gritty Southern territory.” Dennis McCarthy’s novel\, The Gospel According to Billy the Kid\, moves an American tale of violence and redemption west to New Mexico. Of this debut novel\, fellow Greensboro Bound author Ron Rash says\, “this novel does what all of the best ones do: we enter them\, but they also enter us\, and they stay.” Hosts BRYAN GIEMZA and AMY WELDON talk craft\, violence\, and the art of storytelling with our three authors. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \nJOHN HART is the author of six New York Times bestsellers. The only author in history to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel consecutively\, John has also won the Barry Award\, the SIBA Award for Fiction\, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award\, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in more than seventy countries.\nAuthor Website \nROD DAVIS is the recipient of the inaugural Fiction Award of the PEN Southwest Book Awards in 2005 for Corina’s Way\, described by Kirkus Reviews as “a spicy bouillabaisse\, New Orleans-set\, in the tradition of Flannery O’Connor or John Kennedy Toole: a welcome romp\, told with traditional Southern charm.”  His PEN/Texas-award-winning essay\, The Fate of the Texas Writer\, is included in Fifty Years of the Texas Observer and his Texas Monthly story\, Wal-marts Across Texas\, is excerpted in True Stories by David Byrne. Davis has received numerous awards as a magazine editor and writer. He earned an M.A. in Government at Louisiana State University and studied at the University of Virginia before joining the Army in 1970\, serving as a first lieutenant in South Korea. He lives in Texas.\nAuthor Website \nDENNIS McCARTHY has been a park ranger\, ecologist\, speechwriter\, editor in chief\, professor\, and attorney. At work on his second novel\, he and his wife and beagle live in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. \nBRYAN GIEMZA\, PHD\, JD is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University.  In addition to his teaching and research he serves as public scholar for the Sowell Family Collection in Literature\, Community and the Natural World. Before coming to Texas Tech he was Director of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \nAMY WELDON is an Alabama native\,  professor of English at Luther College in Decorah\, Iowa and the author\, most recently\, of Eldorado\, Iowa: A Novel. \nThis event is sponsored by: \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/davis-hart-mccarthy/
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CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Mystery/Detective
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SUMMARY:Allan Gurganus & George Singleton
DESCRIPTION:Watch moderator (referee?) DREW PERRY as he survives the interests and eccentricities of two of the Carolinas’ best short story writers\, ALLAN GURGANUS and GEORGE SINGLETON. Born in Rocky Mount\, NC\, Allan Gurganus has written four novels (including the bestselling The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All) and four short story collections and his work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Paris Review and everywhere good literature is read. George Singleton was raised in Greenwood\, SC and has an MFA in fiction from UNC Greensboro. He is the author of two novels and nine short story collections\, including the recent You Want More. With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor\, Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \n  \nALLAN GURGANUS is a trained painter\, author\, and eloquent critic of homophobia\, racism and much American foreign policy. He first turned to writing onboard the USS Yorktown during the Vietnam War and subsequently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. He is an alum of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he was mentored by Stanley Elkin and John Cheever. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science\, the Fellowship of Southern Writers\, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Adaptations of his fiction have won four Emmys.\nAuthor Website\n\nGEORGE SINGLETON was raised in Greenwood\, South Carolina. He has published nine collections of stories\, two novels\, and (with Daniel Wallace) a book of advice. In a 2006 interview Singleton recalled his beginnings as a writer and his slow but sure path to national prominence as a southern writer: “I plowed on until I found a voice\, and understood that I would try to write about how the saddest moments can be the funniest.” He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. \nDREW PERRY teaches writing at Elon University and writes a monthly column for Our State magazine. His novels include\, This Is Just Exactly Like You\, a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan prize from the Center for Fiction\, a Best-of-the-Year pick from The Atlanta Journal Constitution\, and a SIBA Okra pick\, and Kids These Days. He lives with his wife and two sons. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by: \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/gurganus-singleton/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T190000
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SUMMARY:LIVE A Conversation with Billy Collins & Ron Rash
DESCRIPTION:Former US Poet Laureate BILLY COLLINS has been hailed as “the most popular poet in America.” RON RASH has been celebrated as the “Appalachian Shakespeare.”  Host Michael Gaspeny will investigate the mysteries of art and the heart in a discussion of their latest works (Whale Day: And Other Poems and In the Valley: Stories) that promises to ripple with wit and soar with elegiac power. [event is free\, but registration is required]\n\n \n  \n  \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \nBILLY COLLINS is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal\, Aimless Love\, Horoscopes for the Dead\, Ballistics\, The Trouble with Poetry\, Nine Horses\, Sailing Alone Around the Room\, Questions About Angels\, The Art of Drowning\, and Picnic\, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry\, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day\, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York\, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife Suzannah.\nAuthor Website \nRON RASH is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall\, in addition to four prizewinning novels\, including The Cove\, One Foot in Eden\, Saints at the River\, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories\, among them Burning Bright\, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, and Chemistry and Other Stories\, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize\, he teaches at Western Carolina University.\nAuthor Website \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 Story Contest. He has served as moderator for several Scuppernong and Greensboro Bound events\, including forums on Flannery O’Connor and James Baldwin. A former reporter and sportswriter\, he taught journalism and English for almost forty years\, mainly at Bennett College and High Point University\, where he won the distinguished teaching award. For hospice service in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, he has received The Governor’s Award for Volunteer Excellence. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by:
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/collins-rash/
LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Writing Outside the Lines: Nonbinary Authors Changing YA\, with Mason Deaver & Nita Tyndall
DESCRIPTION:Authors MASON DEAVER and NITA TYNDALL join host SHANNON JONES in a conversation about how  Young Adult authors outside the gender binary are reshaping that world\, pulling down pillars of black and white to tell stories of what growing up can mean when you feel like there’s no place for “someone like you.” In a South where queer is still occasionally spat like a curse and many people have never heard terms like cis\, trans\, or nonbinary\, Nita Tyndall and Mason Deaver show us that growing up southern and nonbinary doesn’t have to be lonely\, and can even open your eyes to loves and griefs and joys you never could have found anywhere else. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \n  \nMASON DEAVER\, an award-winning\, bestselling author and designer\, was born and raised in a small eastern North Carolina town. They now live in Charlotte where they’re an active fan of horror movies and video games.\nAuthor Website \nNITA TYNDALL is a passionate queer advocate and literary translator who writes the kinds of books they needed in high school. Their translations from the German have appeared in World Literature Today\, and they have previously written for outlets like Autostraddle and were part of the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat in 2017. They live in North Carolina with their partner and a beautifully fluffy cat\, Pumpkin.\nAuthor Website \nSHANNON JONES is a queer writer and bookseller who manages Scuppernong Books in Greensboro\, NC. She’s also proud to help run the Authors Engaging Students program at Greensboro Bound which brings authors and books to Guilford County Schools students. \nThis event is sponsored by
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/deaver-tyndall/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Young Adult
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SUMMARY:The Soul of the Novel: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle & Kaitlyn Greenidge\, with Zelda Lockhart
DESCRIPTION:KAITLYN GREENIDGE and ANNETTE SAUNOOKE CLAPSADDLE are two rising stars in the world of literary fiction. Greenidge’s Libertie has been called “Pure brilliance. So much will be written about how it blends history and magic into a new kind of telling\, how it spins the past to draw deft circles around our present–but none of it will measure up to the singular joy of reading this book.” And Lee Smith says of Clapsaddle’s Even As We Breathe: “Clapsaddle lifts the curtain to show us a South we don’t know\, revealed through the struggles of Cowney Sequoyah\, a young man growing up within the Cherokee Nation of far Western North Carolina. A wonderful novel\, complicated as life itself — thrilling\, mysterious\, and finally\, a revelation!” This conversation is moderated by NC novelist ZELDA LOCKHART and informed by her work\, The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript: Turning Life’s Wounds into the Gift of Literary Fiction\, Memoir\, or Poetry. \n[rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nKAITLYN GREENIDGE debut novel\, We Love You\, Charlie Freeman\, was one of the New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Books of 2016 and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times\, and her writing has also appeared in Vogue\, Glamour\, the Wall Street Journal\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Greenidge lives in Brooklyn\, New York.\nAuthor Website \nANNETTE SAUNOOKE CLAPSADDLE an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. Her work Going to Water won the Morning Star Award for Creative Writing from the Native American Literature Symposium and was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She is co-editor of the Journal of Cherokee Studies and serves on the board of trustees for the North Carolina Writers’ Network. She resides in Qualla\, North Carolina.\nAuthor Website \nZELDA LOCKHART holds a PhD in Expressive Arts Therapies\, an MA in Literature and a certificate in writing\, directing and editing from the New York Film Academy. Her latest books include Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne with Zelda Lockhart\, and The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript: Turning Life’s Wounds into the Gift of Literary Fiction\, Memoir\, or Poetry. She is also the author of  Fifth Born and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle. She is Director at Her Story Garden Studios: Inspiring Black Women to Self-Define\, Heal and Liberate Through the Literary Arts\, and Publisher at LaVenson Press: Publishing for Women & Girls of Color. Organizations globally have recognized Dr. Lockhart’s talent as an inspiring teacher\, facilitator\, and public speaker.\nAuthor Website \n  \nThis event is sponsored by
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/clapsaddle-greenidge-lockhart/
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CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T150000
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SUMMARY:A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writers of Color on the New American South
DESCRIPTION:A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writers of Color on the New American South  editor CINELLE BARNES fell in love with a boy from the Carolinas\, moved South with him\, and immediately encountered the worst and the best The South has to offer. Committed to “making this place as big as it is\,” she found 21 other writers of color\, both established and emerging\, who are also confronting the paradoxes that envelop the South. A Measure of Belonging is the space she held for their stories. Contributors IVELISSE RODRIGUEZ and DIANA CEJAS join us to talk about their experiences— the good\, the bad\, and the befuddling— of living down south. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nCINELLE BARNES is a memoirist\, essayist\, and educator from Manila\, Philippines\, and is the author of Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir (Little A\, 2018) and Malaya: Essays on Freedom (Little A\, 2019)\, and the editor the New York Times New & Noteworthy book\, A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writes of Color on the New American South (Hub City Press\, 2020). She earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Converse College.  She is currently at work on a nonfiction narrative book on climate justice and the Philippine water crisis.\nAuthor Website \nIVELISSE RODRIGUEZ’s debut short story collection Love War Stories is a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is the founder and editor of an interview series focused on contemporary Puerto Rican writers published in Centro Voices. She was a senior fiction editor at Kweli and is a Kimbilio fellow and a VONA/Voices alum. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College and a Ph.D. in English-creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.\nAuthor Website\n\nDIANA CEJAS  is a pediatric neurologist and writer in Durham\, NC. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in medical journals and literary magazines including The Journal of the American Medical Association\, The Iowa Review\, and Catapult\, among others. She is currently working on a memoir that describes her life as a physician-patient. She spends her days off on her family’s farm gardening and tending to their honeybees.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/a-measure-of-belonging/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction
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SUMMARY:Naima Coster & Leesa Cross-Smith
DESCRIPTION:At the center of the powerful\, tender new titles\, What’s Mine and Yours by NAIMA COSTER and This Close to Okay by LEESA CROSS-SMITH\, are deftly wrought\, perfectly imperfect characters whose paths can never be unwoven from not only each other\, but also from the ways we see our communities and ourselves. Life is often\, if not entirely\, a series of crossed paths. Some paths are random kismet\, some are paths you get to suddenly\, with a crash. Hosted by MACKENZIE FILSON. \n[rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nNAIMA COSTER is the author of Halsey Street and What’s Mine and Yours. Naima has taught writing for over a decade in community settings\, youth programs\, and universities. Most recently\, she has taught writing in the MFA programs at the City College of New York\, Antioch University in L.A.\, and the University of Michigan. She also writes the newsletter\, Bloom How You Must. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.\nAuthor Website \nLEESA CROSS-SMITH is God’s little creature from Kentucky. She is an INFJ\, a homemaker\, a plant lover\, and the author of This Close To Okay\, So We Can Glow: Short Stories\, Every Kiss A War and Whiskey & Ribbons. She lives in Kentucky with her husband and children.\nAuthor Website \nMACKENZIE FILSON  is a writer\, bookseller\, and too-proud Floridian. A graduate of Emerson College’s publishing program as well as Columbia University’s publishing course\, she has worked in publicity for Penguin Random House\, as well as a bookseller for The Harvard Coop\, Skylight Books and\, of course\, Scuppernong Books.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/coster-cross-smith/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction
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