BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Greensboro Bound - ECPv6.16.2//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:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T200000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024629 CREATED:20260113T202628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260411T143925Z UID:14380-1778263200-1778270400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:An Evening with Morgan Radford DESCRIPTION:A BONUS BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT! \nFriday\, May 8 | 6:00 PM\nGreensboro History Museum\nFree and open to all \nGreensboro 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\, the Greensboro Public Library Foundation\, and Scuppernong Books\, this special evening highlights Radford’s transition from award-winning journalist to fiction author. \nNow Then interweaves the lives of a mother and daughter. One comes of age at Harvard in the 1990s\, while the other confronts revolution and resilience in 1950s Havana. As secrets unfold through a series of letters\, Radford crafts a powerful narrative about hidden histories\, second chances\, and the choices and loves that shape our lives. \nRadford’s compelling fiction debut draws from elements of her personal life\, professional background\, and the history of her family’s migration from Jamaica and Cuba. An award-winning journalist whose reporting has spanned foreign policy\, U.S. political movements\, and major national news\, Radford calls this novel “one of the richest\, most rewarding endeavors of my lifetime.” \nRadford is an anchor for NBC News and co-host of NBC News Daily. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Journalism School\, and a former Fulbright Scholar\, she has received multiple awards for her reporting featured on TODAY\, NBC Nightly News\, MSNBC\, and Telemundo. With Now Then\, she brings emotional depth and journalistic rigor to a moving work of literary fiction that is already being celebrated for its power\, tenderness\, and resonance. \n\nThis event will be moderated by Portia Mount\, Founder + CEO Advisor\, Mount Creative. An accomplished keynote and 2x Tedx speaker\, Portia frequently addresses topics around women and leadership\, and the evolving demands on transformative leaders in the future of work. She is the co-author of the best-selling career advice book\, “Kick Some Glass: Ten Ways Women Succeed at Work on Their Own Terms” (McGraw Hill Education\, 2019)\, and hosts the “Ungovernable Women” podcast. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/morgan-radford/ LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T210000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024629 CREATED:20250318T180027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T210655Z UID:13983-1747335600-1747342800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Percival Everett (FULL/SOLD OUT) DESCRIPTION:Due to overwhelming response\, registrations for this event are closed.  \nThe 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 event sets the stage for the all-day Greensboro Bound Book Festival happening in downtown Greensboro on May 17. \nEverett\, a celebrated and award-winning author\, has captivated audiences with his thought-provoking and genre-defying works. His latest novel\, James\, a reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim\, has garnered widespread critical acclaim and cemented his reputation as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary literature. Everett’s 2020 novel Telephone was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and James won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2024. \nThe event will take place in the Elliott University Center Auditorium on the UNCG campus. This exciting evening offers attendees the opportunity to hear from Everett firsthand as he delves into the themes of James\, his writing process and his other works. A book signing will follow the discussion. \nDue to overwhelming response\, registrations for this event are closed.  \nComplimentary parking for all event attendees will be available in the Walker Avenue Parking Deck (506 Stirling Street). URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/percival-everett/ LOCATION:Elliott University Center Auditorium\, 507 Stirling Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T140000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024629 CREATED:20220325T201655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025414Z UID:8415-1653224400-1653228000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Mysteries of Identity 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.* \nWith JOHN COPENHAVER\, VALERIE NIEMAN\, and NICOLE ZELNIKER. These three novels skirt the edges of the mystery genre while taking on various considerations of identity. Gender expectations\, LGBTQ concerns\, and coming-of-age self-awareness all complicate the usual terrain of the mystery field. Hosted by JACOB PAUL.  \nJOHN COPENHAVER‘s historical crime novel\, Dodging and Burning (Pegasus)\, won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and garnered Anthony\, Strand Critics\, Barry\, and Lambda Literary Award nominations. Copenhaver writes a crime fiction review column for Lambda Literary called “Blacklight\,” cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show\, and is the six-time recipient of Artist Fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He grew up in the mountains of southwestern Virginia and currently lives in Richmond\, VA\, with his husband\, artist Jeffery Paul. The Savage Kind (Pegasus) is his second novel. \n VALERIE NEIMEN‘s new novel\, In the Lonely Backwater\, a YA/crossover suspense novel in the Southern gothic tradition\, will be published by Regal House/Fitzroy Books in May 2022. To the Bones\, her genre-bending folk horror/thriller about coal country\, was a finalist for the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award\, joining three earlier novels\, a short fiction collection\, and three poetry collections. She has published widely in journals\, and has held state and NEA creative writing fellowships. A native of western New York\, Nieman was a journalist and farmer in West Virginia. She holds degrees from West Virginia University and Queens University of Charlotte and recently retired as a creative writing professor at NC A&T State University. \nNICOLE ZELNIKER (she/her) is a writer\, activist\, and managing editor at The Nasiona. She is the author of several books\, including “Letters I’ll Never Send” and “Until We Fall.” \nJACOB PAUL  is the author of two previous novels\, A Song of Ilan (Jaded Ibis\, 2015) and Sarah/Sara (Ig\, 2010)\, which Poets & Writers named one of 2010’s five best first fictions. His collaborations have led to the fine art books\, Home for an Hour (Otherwise\, 2014) and Feed Mayonnaise to Tuna (Otherwise\, 2016). His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Hunger Mountain\, Western Humanities Review\, Green Mountains Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Seneca Review\, Mountain Gazette and USA Today’s Weekend Magazine as well as on therumpus.net\, fictionwritersreview.com and numerocinqmagazine.com. He teaches creative writing at High Point University in North Carolina. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/mysteries-of-identity/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction,Mystery/Thriller END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T150000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024629 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:20260523T024629 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:20220521T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T130000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024629 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:20260523T024630 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:20220521T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T110000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024630 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:20260523T024630 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:20260523T024630 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220519T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220519T210000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024630 CREATED:20211209T194822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220512T214914Z UID:7957-1652986800-1652994000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:An Evening with Amor Towles DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out!  \nIf you have questions about your existing Amor Towles reservation\, please contact the UNCG University Libraries at library.events@uncg.edu. \n. . . . . . . . . . . \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT AN EXISTING RESERVATION\, PLEASE CONTACT THE UNCG UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AT library.events(at)uncg.edu.An Evening with AMOR TOWLES\, hosted by XHENET ALIU.\nBorn and raised in the Boston area\, AMOR TOWLES graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. His thesis at Stanford\, a short story cycle called “The Temptations of Pleasure”\, was published in 1989 in Paris Review No. 112. His new novel\, The Lincoln Highway\, debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list\, and was a Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick\, one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021\, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year\, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021\, and was #1 on Amazon’s list of the Best Books of the Year. \nMr. Towles’s first novel\, Rules of Civility\, which was published in 2011\, was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. The book has been translated into over 15 languages\, its French translation receiving the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. In the fall of 2012\, the novel was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film. Mr. Towles’s second novel\, A Gentleman in Moscow\, which was published in 2016\, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 52 weeks in hardcover and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune\, the Washington Post\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and NPR. The book has been translated into over thirty-five languages including Russian. In the summer of 2017\, the novel was optioned by Entertainment One and the British director\, Tom Harper\, to be made into a 6-8 hour miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh. He is also the author of the ebook You Have Arrived at Your Destination as part of Amazon’s Forward collection. \nHaving worked as an investment professional for over twenty years\, Mr. Towles now devotes himself full time to writing in Manhattan\, where he lives with his wife and two children.XHENET ALIU is the author of the novel Brass\, winner of the biennial Townsend Prize and 2018 Georgia Author of the Year First Novel Prize\, and the short story collection Domesticated Wild Things\, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in fiction. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by: URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/amor-towles/ LOCATION:Cone Ballroom\, Elliot University Center Auditorium\, UNCG\, 507 Stirling Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412 CATEGORIES:Historical Fiction,Literary Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T170000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024630 CREATED:20210401T064737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210511T121859Z UID:5643-1621180800-1621184400@greensborobound.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T160000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024630 CREATED:20210401T065109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T152204Z UID:5640-1621177200-1621180800@greensborobound.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T140000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024630 CREATED:20210401T065713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210511T122401Z UID:5636-1621170000-1621173600@greensborobound.com 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/ LOCATION:VIRTUAL CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T120000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024630 CREATED:20210401T071734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T160625Z UID:5606-1621162800-1621166400@greensborobound.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T200000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024630 CREATED:20210401T070553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T123135Z UID:5042-1621105200-1621108800@greensborobound.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T170000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024630 CREATED:20210401T063620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T192854Z UID:5618-1621094400-1621098000@greensborobound.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T180000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024630 CREATED:20210401T072802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210510T162235Z UID:5571-1621011600-1621015200@greensborobound.com 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/ LOCATION:VIRTUAL CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Mystery/Detective END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T170000 DTSTAMP:20260523T024630 CREATED:20210326T190046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210331T150208Z UID:5509-1617202800-1617210000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:TEST EVENT DESCRIPTION:This is a test event. Test. Test. Test. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/test-event/ LOCATION:VIRTUAL CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR