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SUMMARY:Our Stories\, Our Voices: Four Years On
DESCRIPTION:Join Our Stories\, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice\, Empowerment\, and Growing Up Female in America editor AMY REED and contributors TRACY DEONN\, AMBER SMITH\, and IW GREGORIO as they look back on their contribution to Our Stories\, Our Voices. We’ll take a closer look at how their perspectives have changed over the past four years and what they might say now if they were to write their essays all over again; and how and why their writing has changed since Our Stories\, Our Voices was first published in 2018. \nSunday\, 5/16 –  Part 2 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Writing As Activism\nSunday\, 5/16 – Your Story\, Your Voice: A Writing Workshop\n \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \n  \nAMY REED is the award-winning author of several novels for young adults\, including The Nowhere Girls\, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World\, Beautiful\, Clean\, and Crazy. Her newest book\, the psychological thriller Tell Me My Name\,  is a near-future\, gender-swapped retelling of The Great Gatsby. Amy is a feminist\, mother\, and Virgo who enjoys running\, making lists\, and wandering around the mountains of western North Carolina where she lives.\nAuthor Website \nTRACY DEONN is the New York Times bestselling author of Legendborn and a second-generation fangirl who grew up in North Carolina. Tracy has worked in live theater\, video games\, and K–12 education. When she’s not writing\, Tracy speaks on panels at SFF conventions\, reads fanfic\, and keeps an eye out for ginger-flavored everything.\nAuthor Website \nAMBER SMITH is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult novels The Way I Used to Be\, The Last to Let Go\, and Something Like Gravity. An advocate for increased awareness of gendered violence\, as well as LGBTQ equality\, she writes in the hope that her books can help to foster change and spark dialogue surrounding these issues. She grew up in Buffalo\, New York\, and now lives in Charlotte\, North Carolina\, with her wife and their ever-growing family of rescued dogs and cats. \nAuthor Website \nIW GREGORIO is a practicing surgeon by day\, masked avenging YA writer by night. She is author of This is My Brain in Love\, which was awarded the 2020 Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association. After getting her MD\, she did her residency at Stanford\, where she met the intersex patient who inspired her debut novel\, None of the Above\, which was a Lambda Literary Finalist\, a Publishers Weekly Flying Start\, and an ALA Rainbow List selection. She is proud to be a board member of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth\, and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Her essays have been published in Newsweek\, The Washington Post\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Scientific American\, among others.\nAuthor Website \n  \nThis event is sponsored by:
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SUMMARY:Issac Bailey & Bakari Sellers
DESCRIPTION:Essayist ISSAC BAILEY author of Why Didn’t We Riot: A Black Man in Trumpland\, and CNN commentator BAKARI SELLERS\, author of My Vanishing Country\, review the life of African Americans in post-Trump America and in the South. They address traumas that shaped their lives: Dylan Roof and Mother Emmanuel AME\, African American accommodation of whites\, the myths and truths that made Donald Trump president\, reparations\, and the changes we must make to end 400+ years of systemic racism. Hosted by STEPHEN COLYER.  [rsvp required; see below]  \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nBAKARI SELLERS is a CNN political analyst and was the youngest-ever member of the South Carolina state legislature. Recently named to TIME’s “40 Under 40” List\, he is also a practicing attorney fighting to give a voice for the voiceless.\nAuthor Website\n \nISSAC BAILEY is a veteran journalist who has won numerous writing and reporting awards and has conducted investigations that led to changes in the way the S.C. Department of Social Services handles child protection cases. He is also a certified guardian ad litem and has served as the legal representative in Family Court for children in distress and has spent several years mentoring troubled youth in a variety of capacities. Bailey is Davidson College’s Batten Professor and taught journalism and applied ethics at Coastal Carolina University for several years.  He is married to Dr. Tracy Bailey\, founder and executive director of non-profit literacy organization\, Freedom Readers\, and has two teenaged children. Bailey’s 2018 book\, My Brother Moochie\, which discusses the effects of the criminal justice system on black families\, has received critical acclaim and has been featured in the New York Times.\nAuthor Website\n\nSTEPHEN COLYER is the Greensboro Literary Organization Board Treasurer and one of the founders of Greensboro Bound. He has been thrilled to see an idea crystallize\, grow and become a valued part of our community’s arts ecosystem. His interest in book fairs/literary festivals stemmed from a 21 year sojourn in Miami where he attended and then volunteered with Miami Book Fair\, the largest literary festival in the United States. He lives in Jamestown\, NC with his wife Sandra and their dog\, Missy.
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