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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
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SUMMARY:Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward
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*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith KATHRYN SCHULZ and ALEXIS ORGERA. These two memoirs examine the pain of losing fathers\, but something else is found in the process of loss\, in the process of writing\, and in the process of thinking about loved ones. These are powerful looks at how vital an engagement with a difficult past becomes to a hopeful future. As a bonus\, moderator CASEY CEP has a prominent role in one book’s reengagement with life. \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• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith \nKATHYRN SCHULZ is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for “The Really Big One\,” an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Lost & Found grew out of “Losing Streak\,” which was originally published in The New Yorker and later anthologized in The Best American Essays. Her other essays and reporting have appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing\, The Best American Travel Writing\, and The Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio\, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. \nALEXIS ORGERA is a poet-writer\, book editor\, and publisher living in North Carolina. She’s the author of two poetry collections in addition to Head Case: My Father\, Alzheimer’s & Other Brainstorms (Kore Press\, December 2021). Her work can be found in literary magazines like the Bennington Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Carolina Quarterly\, Chattahoochee Review\, Conduit\, Denver Quarterly\, Green Mountains Review\, Gulf Coast\, Hotel Amerika\, Indianapolis Review\, Interim\, Massachusetts Review\, Passages North\, Prairie Schooner\, Third Coast\, and elsewhere. \n\nCASEY CEP is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her first book\, Furious Hours: Murder\, Fraud\, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee\, was an instant New York Times bestseller\, and is available in paperback\, hardcover\, as an e-book\, and as an audiobook
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/lost-found-forgetting/
LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction
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SUMMARY:Just Bring Yourself: A Conversation with Ann Hood and Julia Ridley Smith
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.* \nJoin us for a conversation about the pleasures and challenges of writing memoir. When mining material from their own lives\, how do writers decide what to include and what to let go? How much (or little) are family members and friends included in the research and writing? We’ll also talk about the role of humor in memoir and how these writers approach memoir differently from (or similarly to) the fiction they write. With ANN HOOD and JULIA RIDLEY SMITH. Hosted by MOLLY SENTELL HAILE. \n  \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• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen \nANN HOOD is the author of the bestselling novels The Knitting Circle\, The Obituary Writer and The Book That Matters Most. Her memoir\, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief\, was a NYT Editors Choice and was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Rhode Island and NYC. \nJULIA RIDLEY SMITH is the author of a memoir\, The Sum of Trifles (University of Georgia Press\, 2021). She’s published fiction in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Electric Literature\, The Southern Review\, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Ecotone\, the New England Review\, and Southern Cultures\, and was recognized as notable in The Best American Essays. She has taught creative writing and literature at UNC Greensboro and is the 2021–22 Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC Chapel Hill. \nMOLLY SENTELL HAILE is a writer and educator whose short stories and nonfiction have appeared in Oxford American\, The North Carolina Literary Review\, Epiphany\, O. Henry Magazine\, and elsewhere. She was awarded the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and is a Pushcart and O. Henry Award nominee. Her work received a Notable designation in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s MFA in Creative Writing\, she currently teaches creative writing classes for people with cancer\, survivors\, and caregivers at Hirsch Wellness Network in Greensboro and is at work on her first novel. \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/hood-smith/
LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction
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