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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones
DESCRIPTION:**THIS EVENT IS SOLD-OUT** \n  \n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nA Conversation with NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES is the culminating event in the History Of Redlining In East Greensboro: Conversations About Our City’s Past And Present series. This keynote event for the F.D. Bluford Library series will take place as part of the 2022 Greensboro Bound Literary Festival. Nikole Hannah-Jones\, The New York Times Magazine and creator of The 1619 Project will be in conversation with DR. JELANI FAVORS. Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of The 1619 Project\, Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University\, and MacArthur Genius Award Winner. Dr. Jelani M. Favors is the Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor at N.C. A&T and the award-winning author of Shelter in a Time of Storm. Their conversation will be a wide-ranging discussion about Professor Hannah-Jones’ work to chronicle “the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act” and her latest book\, The 1619 Project. \nThe History of Redlining in East Greensboro: Conversations About Our City’s Past and Present was created by F.D. Bluford librarians Carlos Grooms\, Katie Kehoe\, Harvey Long\, and James Stewart at N.C. A&T State University in collaboration with Dudley High School\, Greensboro Bound\, and The Greensboro Public Library. Greensboro Bound\, F.D. Bluford Library at N.C. A&T State University\, and NC Humanities generously supported this project with funds. \nNIKOLE HANNAH-JONES  is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. The New York Times‘s 1619 Project commemorates the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in what would become the United States by examining slavery’s modern legacy and reframing the way we understand this history and the contributions of black Americans to the nation. Nikole’s lead essay\, “Our Democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true\,” was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. Nikole also has written extensively about school resegregation across the country and chronicled the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act. In 2016\, Nikole Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting\, a training and mentorship organization dedicated to increasing the ranks of investigative reporters of color. \nDR. JELANI M. FAVORS is the Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. In 2019\, Dr. Favors released his first book entitled Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism\, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press. Shelter in a Time of Storm was the recipient of the 2020 Stone Book Award presented annually by the Museum of African American History in Boston\, the 2020 Lillian Smith Book Award given yearly by the\nSouthern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries\, and it was one of five finalists for the 2020 Pauli Murray Book Prize presented by the African American Intellectual History Society. Dr. Favors’ research and commentary have appeared in several publications and\nmedia outlets\, including CNN\, C-SPAN\, MSNBC\, The Washington Post\, MarketWatch\, The Atlantic\, The Root\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Point\, and The Conversation. Dr. Favors earned his Ph.D. in History and his M.A. in African American Studies from The Ohio State University. He is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with honor.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/nikole-hannah-jones/
LOCATION:Harrison Auditorium\, NC A&T\, 1009 Bluford Street\, Greenbsoro\, NC\, 27401
CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Non-Fiction,Social Justice
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SUMMARY:King of the Blues
DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nGreensboro Bound partners with the Carolina Blues Festival to bring an engaging conversation with DANIEL de VISÉ on the life and legacy of B. B. King. De Vise\, whose previous book\, Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show\, was a Greensboro hit\, is a meticulous researcher and passionate lover of the blues\, which makes him an ideal conversation partner for Blues Festival director ATIBA BERKLEY. \nDANIEL de VISÉ is the author of the critically acclaimed Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show and The Comeback: Greg LeMond\, The True King of American Cycling and a Legendary Tour de France\, and coauthor of I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia. He shared a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his journalism and has worked at the Washington Post and Miami Herald\, among other newspapers. He lives in Maryland. \nATIBA BERKLEY is a former vocal performer & business manager whose interest in remaining close to the stage led him to the art of Sound Engineering almost two decades ago. He started HUMbl Media Svcs in a basement in the Glenwood neighborhood of Greensboro\, North Carolina in 2001. He has since worked for numerous production companies and organizations and helped to produce some of the world’s largest public events as a freelancer & production team leader. These events include multiple Olympic Games\, NFL Super Bowls\, NBA events\, NHL events\, National commercials and Television Broadcasts. These experiences sparked in him a desire to share his unique and diverse skills with his local community. Atiba honed his skills to curate public cultural events. In his volunteer life Atiba donates his time as the President and Acting Executive Director of the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society. He manages the Carolina Blues Festival and numerous community and cultural programs. He has served on the programming committee for the both the National Folk Festival and North Carolina Folk Festival\, Artist in Residency selection committee for Downtown Greensboro Parks\, Inc\, Logistics Coordinator for Greensboro Juneteenth Celebration\, & Technical Director for This Community Sings at Carolina Theatre of Greensboro to name a few.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/king-of-the-blues/
LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Non-Fiction
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SUMMARY:County of Terror: Alamance in the 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:Jaki Shelton Green\n											\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n		\n	\n\n	\n	\n	\n\n	\n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.*\nYou may also be interested in:\n• An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones\n• Images of Justice and Power\n• Truth Tellers documentary presentation\n•A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color\n• Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation\n \n ALEX ALBRIGHT examines the reign of terror the Klan brought to Alamance County to undermine political gains by black people after the Civil War. The family of NC poet laureate JAKI SHELTON GREEN lived in Alamance at the time and suffered the white riotous rage. \nALEX ALBRIGHT A Graham native and UNCG alum\, Alex taught for 37 years in the English Department at East Carolina University\, where he founded the North Carolina Literary Review and served as director of creative writing. His 2013 book The Forgotten First: B-1 and the Integration of the Modern Navy was a finalist for a Montaigne Medal. He has received the R. Hunt Parker Award for contributions to North Carolina literature\, the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities\, and\, with his wife\, Elizabeth\, the Brown-Hudson Award for preserving folk and community traditions. He and Elizabeth operate Fountain General Store near their home in Fountain\, North Carolina. \nJAKI SHELTON GREEN ninth NC Poet Laureate\, teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies. She is an Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellows\, author of eight books of poetry\, and recently appointed as the Poet Laureate in Residence at the NC Museum of Art. \nBRIAN LAMPKIN is an owner of Scuppernong Books and one of the founders of the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival. He is the author of The Tarboro Three: Rape\, Race\, and Secrecy and performs with the band The Difficulties.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/county-of-terror/
LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Non-Fiction
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SUMMARY:The Truth about Disability: What We Don't Talk About
DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nAround 20% of Americans live with a disability\, but for many disability remains a taboo subject. Too often\, the complex experiences of the disabled are reduced to pity or inspiration. On this panel\, three disabled authors of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction discuss their work and what we don’t talk about when we talk about disability. With EMILY MALONEY\, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT\, and JT HILL. Hosted by JT HILL. \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice\n• Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n•  Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation \nEMILY MALONEY is the author of COST OF LIVING (Henry Holt\, 2022). Her work has appeared in Glamour\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Best American Essays\, and the American Journal of Nursing\, among others. In addition to her work as an ER tech\, she has worked as a dog groomer\, horse trainer\, pastry chef\, general contractor\, tile setter\, and catalog model and sold her ceramics at art fairs. She has twice been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and lives in Evanston\, Illinois. \nKAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet\, essayist\, cultural strategist\, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell. Their second book\, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have received fellowships from VONA Voices\, Monson Arts\, Macondo\, and The Lambda Literary Review. They have featured at The United Nations\, The Lincoln Center\, The Hemispheric Institute\, Symphony Space\, Brooklyn Museum\, Dodge Poetry\, The Poetry Foundation\, The School of the Arts Institute\, Manchester PRIDE\, Sesame Street\, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, Academy of American Poets\, Colorlines\, Asian American Literary Review\, The Advocate\, Al Jazeera\, NYLON\, Vogue\, The Rumpus\, The Lily\, VIDA Review\, and elsewhere. Currently\, they serve as a curator at The Asian American Writer’s Workshop. \nJT HILL Hill is the author of a memoir\, Blind Man’s Bluff\, coming July 2021 from W. W. Norton. His fiction debut\, Academy Gothic\, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His essays have been listed as Notable in the 2019 and 2020 editions of Best American Essays\, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Writer’s Digest\, Story Quarterly\, and Hobart\, among others. He serves as fiction editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle and contributing editor for Literary Hub\, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. He lives in Greensboro\, North Carolina with his wife.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/the-truth-about-disability/
LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing
DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith ELISHEBA HAQQ and MEGAN CULHANE GALBRAITH. Hosted by LEE ZACHARIAS. \nYou May also be interested in:  \n• Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir\n• $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen\n• Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith\n•Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n•Immigration and Refugee Matters \n  \nELISHEBA HAQQ was born in Chandigarh\, India\, but was brought up in Minnesota\, USA. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and currently teaches writing at Rutgers University. Her work has appeared in A Letter for my Mother\, Gateways\, She.knows.com\, and NJ Monthly. An RN by profession\, she has also been published in Creative Nursing and Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. \nMEGAN CULHANE GALBRAITH is a writer\, visual artist\, and adoptee. She is the author of The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press\, May 2021) a hybrid memoir-in-essays that pairs narrative with images to weave a personal and cultural history of adoption as it relates to guilt\, shame\, grief\, identity\, and memory itself. She connects her experiences to those of generations of adoptees\, to the larger stories America tells about sex and motherhood\, and to the shadows those stories cast on us all. She was named one of the “5 Over 50” by Poets & Writers in 2021. Her work was Notable in Best American Essays 2021 and 2017 and her writing and art have featured in BOMB\, HYPERALLERGIC!\, The Believer\, Tupelo Quarterly\, ZZYZYVA\, Hobart\, Longreads\, Hotel Amerika\, Catapult\, and Redivider\, among others. She has been awarded fellowships by The Saltonstall Foundation\, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and The Horned Dorset Colony. Megan is a graduate of and the Associate Director at the Bennington Writing Seminars and the founding director of the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Young Writers Institute. \n\nLEE ZACHARIAS is the author of a collection of short stories\, a collection of essays\, and four novels. Her third novel\, Across the Great Lake\, a 2019 Notable Michigan Book\, won a silver medal in literary fiction from the Independent Publisher Awards\, the 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh Award\, the 2020 Philip H. McMath Book Award. Her fourth novel\, What a Wonderful World This Could Be\, was a finalist for the 2021 American Fiction Awards and has been chosen as a Distinguished Favorite by the 2021 NYC Big Book Awards and the 2022 Independent Press Awards.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/lost-mothers/
LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction
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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
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SUMMARY:Writing Toward Justice: Non-Fiction as a Call to Action
DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nJournalists and writers from different backgrounds discuss the importance of engaging equity\, criminal justice\, and community. The press\, and citizen journalists\, provide witness on systemic issues impacting local communities.  A conversation with DR. BENJAMIN GILMER\, WANDA SMALLS LLOYD and PHOEBE ZERWICK. Hosted by DEONNA KELLI SAYED. This panel is in partnership with the PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• Writing Toward Justice: Non-Fiction as a Call to Action\n• An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones\n• Images of Justice and Power\n• Truth Tellers documentary presentation \nBENJAMIN GILMER\, MD\, is a family medicine physician and medical educator. He is an International Albert Schweitzer Fellow for Life and associate professor in the department of family medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill and at the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC). A former neurobiologist turned rural family doctor\, Dr. Gilmer has lectured widely about medical ethics\, rural health\, and the intersection of medicine and criminal justice reform. He is a passionate teacher of medical education and leads MAHEC’s Rural Health Initiative\, a program to inspire and train students to pursue rural medicine. The Other Dr. Gilmer is his first book\, resulting from a true story he told on This American Life with Sarah Koenig\, now one of its most listened to podcasts. The story has inspired Benjamin to be an advocate for prison and mental health reform. He lives with his wife\, Deirdre; their two children\, Kai and Luya; and their dog\, Prince Peanut Butter\, in Asheville\, North Carolina. \nWANDA LLOYD parlayed her passion for storytelling when she transitioned from journalism to writing non-fiction. Her memoir\, COMING FULL CIRCLE: From Jim Crow to Journalism\, was published in 2020. The book is an engaging\, charmingly written self-reflective volume of stories about growing up as an African American girl in the Jim Crow South\, where despite her segregated circumstances\, she dared to become a daily newspaper journalist. She not only became a journalist\, but her career took her to some of the highest levels of newsroom positions\, and included her work as an editor at The Washington Post and USA Today. She also launched and led university journalism programs as a way to prepare future journalists of color. When Lloyd retired after more than eight years as executive editor of the Montgomery Advertiser in Alabama’s capital city\, she accepted a position as associate professor and chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Savannah State University. A newspaper editor for more than four decades\, she now writes from her home in Savannah\, Georgia\, the city where she grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2020\, Lloyd co-edited (with novelist Tina McElroy Ansa) MEETING AT THE TABLE: African-American Women Write on Race\, Culture and Community\, a collective of essays written after the tragic deaths of George Floyd\, Breonna Taylor\, Ahmaud Arbery and others. Lloyd and Ansa are also co-executive producers and co-hosts of the podcast\, 2 Old Chicks Who Know a Lot of Sh*t! on Spotify and YouTube. Spelman College\, her alma mater\, awarded Lloyd an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2016. In 2019 she was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. \nPHOEBE ZERWICK is an award-winning investigative journalist\, narrative writer\, and college teacher. Her writing has appeared in O\, The Oprah Magazine; National Geographic; The Nation; the Winston-Salem Journal; and Glamour\, among other publications. Her work has been recognized by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University\, Investigative Reporters and Editors\, the Society of Professional Journalists\, Columbia University\, and the North Carolina Press Association and featured in the HBO documentary The Trials of Darryl Hunt. She is the director of the journalism program at Wake Forest University. \nDEONNA KELLI SAYED is an author\, TEDx speaker\, and performer based in Greensboro\, North Carolina. Her short stories and essays are featured in numerous online journals and anthologies. She is the PEN America North Carolina Piedmont Representative and works for the North Carolina Writers’ Network. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSponsored by PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/writing-toward-justice/
LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Non-Fiction,Social Justice
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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
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SUMMARY:Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir
DESCRIPTION:This event is SOLD OUT.\n\n\n	 \n	\n		\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n		\n	\n\n	\n	\n	\n\n	\n\n\n  \n**THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT**\n  \n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \n  \nHow can bringing other genres and forms into memoir enrich the text? How close must memoir adhere to the facts? What is a memoir\, anyway? LAURIE STONE and ALEXIS ORGERA will use their own work to enlarge our idea of the genre and telling the story of our own lives. Hosted by STEVE MITCHELL. \nYou may also be interested in:\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• Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith\n \nLAURIE STONE Laurie Stone is author of six books books including recently Streaming Now\, Postcards from the Thing that is Happening (Dottir Press\, 2022)\, Everything is Personal\, Notes on Now (Scuppernong Editions\, 2020)\, and My Life as an Animal\, Stories (Northwestern University Press/Triquarterly Press\, 2016). She was a longtime writer for the Village Voice\, theater critic for The Nation\, and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. She won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book Critics Circle and two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has published numerous stories in such publications as n + 1\, Waxwing\, Tin House\, Evergreen Review\, Electric Lit\, Fence\, Open City\, Anderbo\, The Collagist\, Your impossible Voice\, New Letters\, TriQuarterly\, Threepenny Review\, and Creative Nonfiction. In 2005\, she participated in “Novel: An Installation\,” writing a book and living in a house designed by architects Salazar/Davis in the Flux Factory’s gallery space. She has frequently collaborated with composer Gordon Beeferman in text/music works. The world premier of their piece “You\, the Weather\, a Wolf” was presented in the 2016 season of the St. Urban concerts. Her next book will be The Love of Strangers\, a collection of linked stories. Her website is: lauriestonewriter.com. \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. More at alexisorgera.com. \nSTEVE MITCHELL\, a writer and journalist\, has published in CRAFT Literary\, entropy\, december magazine\, Southeast Review\, among others. His novel\, Cloud Diary\, is published by C&R Press. His book of short stories is The Naming of Ghosts from Press 53. He has a deep belief in the primacy of doubt and an abiding conviction that great wisdom informs very bad movies. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro\, NC.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/stone-orgera/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401
CATEGORIES:Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T190000
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SUMMARY:Wilmington's Lie: A Conversation with John Sayles & David Zucchino
DESCRIPTION:  \nJOHN SAYLES is an indy film legend. He has written and directed dozens of movies including Lone Star\, Brother From Another Planet\, Matewan\, Eight Men Out\, and The Secret of Roan Inish. Sayles has also written a handful of novels and story collections. His 2011 novel\, A Moment in the Sun\, looks at America in 1898 and the Wilmington Race Riot figures prominently in the narrative. DAVID ZUCCHINO’s 2020 nonfiction book\, Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy\, is the definitive book on the massacre. Together\, Sayles and Zucchino will talk about the atmosphere in Wilmington in 1898 and the lasting impact of the white riot through the 20th Century. The discussion will also focus on the parallels with the January 6\, 2021 insurrection and the continued strain of white supremacy in America. Hosted by BRIAN LAMPKIN.  (rsvp required; see below) \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nDAVID ZUCCHINO is the author of Wilmington’s Lie\, Thunder Run and Myth of the Welfare Queen. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times\, covering Afghanistan and Iraq. He has been a foreign correspondent from more than 30 years\, reporting from more than three dozen countries. He is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from apartheid South Africa.\nAuthor Website \nJOHN SAYLES career as a storyteller began with his fiction. His first novel was Pride of the Bimbos (1975) followed by Union Dues (nominated for National Book Award and National Critics Circle Award)\, the short story collection At the Anarchists Convention\, Los Gusanos\, Dillinger in Hollywood\, and his epic historical novel A Moment in the Sun . His latest work is Yellow Earth. Fiction brought Sayles to the attention of legendary Director/Producer Roger Corman\, for whom he wrote screenplays. Screenwriting is still Sayles’ primary profession\, and credited or not\, he has been able to work in a myriad of genres.\nAuthor Website \nBRIAN LAMPKIN is the Vice Chair of the Greensboro Literary Organization\, the producer of the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival\, author of The Tarboro Three: Rape\, Race\, and Secrecy\, and co-owner of Scuppernong Books. A former social worker and teacher\, Brian spends his life advocating for social justice and sharing his love of the written word with any and everyone who walks through Scup’s doors.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/sayles-zucchino/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T180000
DTSTAMP:20260410T161459
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SUMMARY:A Conversation on Race & Grace in America\, with Denise Kiernan & D. Watkins
DESCRIPTION:The non-fiction work of DENISE KIERNAN has become surefire bestseller material (The Girls of Atomic City\, The Last Castle) and her latest book\, We Gather Together: A Nation Divided\, a President in Turmoil\, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace\, brings her considerable gifts to the untold story of Lincoln and the burgeoning of the Thanksgiving holiday. D. WATKINS\, author of the recent We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress (and also The Cook-Up: A Crack Rock Memoir and The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America)\, introduces you to Down Bottom\, the storied community of East Baltimore that holds a mirror to America’s poor black neighborhoods–“hoods” that could just as easily be in Chicago\, Detroit\, Oakland\, or Atlanta. As Watkins sees it\, the perspective of people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities is largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race.[rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nDENISE KIERNAN is a writer and producer. She writes for herself\, has ghost written\, and has written for both adults and children. And she’s occasionally written with her husband\, author Joseph D’Agnese. She started out in journalism and has covered everything from women’s issues\, sports and history to food\, travel and education in places like The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Village Voice\, Saveur\, Discover\, Ms.\, Reader’s Digest\, and others. She also worked as head writer for ABC‘s “Who Wants to be Millionaire” during its Emmy award-winning first season and has produced for ESPN\, MSNBC and a variety of independent productions.\nAuthor Website \nD. WATKINS is Editor at Large for Salon. He holds a Master’s in Education from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Baltimore where he is a  college lecturer  and founder of the BMORE Writers Project. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America and The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir and We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America. Watkins is from and lives in Baltimore.\nAuthor Website
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/kiernan-watkins/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T160000
DTSTAMP:20260410T161459
CREATED:20210401T065109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T152204Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T150000
DTSTAMP:20260410T161459
CREATED:20210401T065451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210512T181928Z
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SUMMARY:LIVE Candacy Taylor and The Historic Magnolia House
DESCRIPTION:CANDACY TAYLOR\, author of Overground Railroad:The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America\, joins preservationist NATALIE PASS-MILLER and The Historic Magnolia House\, one of only four Green Book sites in North Carolina still in operation. Taylor reaches into her personal history to share the story of the Green Book and the roots of black travel in America. This beautifully researched and illustrated book chronicles the publication of the Green Book between 1936-1967. Pass-Miller’s family purchased the home at 442 Gorell Street in 1995 and worked over the next 22 years on it’s restoration. The Magnolia House was frequented by some of our nation’s most well-known African Americans including James Baldwin\, Louise Armstrong\, and Jackie Robinson during segregation. Work is underway to complete its restoration as a museum and to bring it back into operation as a hotel. Hosted by RODNEY DAWSON. [event is free\, but registration is required]\n\n \n  \n  \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nCANDACY TAYLOR is an award-winning author\, photographer and cultural documentarian working on a multidisciplinary project based on the Green Book. She is the author of the bestselling book\, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (Abrams Books). Taylor is also the curator and content specialist for the exhibition\, The Negro Motorist Green Book\, which is being toured by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) from 2020 to 2024. Taylor was a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University under the direction of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and her projects have been funded by numerous organizations including\, The Library of Congress\, National Geographic\, The American Council of Learned Societies\, The National Endowment for the Humanities\, The National Park Service\, The National Trust\, and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Taylor’s work has been featured in over 65 media outlets including The Atlantic\, CBS Sunday Morning\, The Guardian UK\, The Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Newsweek\, PBS Newshour\, and The Wall St. Journal. Taylor lives in Harlem\, New York.\nAuthor Website \nNATALIE PASS-MILLER is the owner and operator of The Historic Magnolia House and Inn. A Greensboro native\, Natalie attended NC A&T State University where she received a degree in nursing. She later became an IT professional and traveled around the southeast with her family\, before moving back to Greensboro in 2018 to help her father\, Sam Pass\, complete the restoration work on the home. Natalie has a rich family lineage that includes her great\, great grandfather\, Jefferson Davis Diggs\, who was one of the founders of the school that would become Winston-Salem State University; her uncle Samuel Penn\, was Greensboro’s first Black police officers; and her aunt Eloise Logan-Penn\, was the first Black woman to run a music program in the local schools and created the Delta Sigma Theta “Sweetheart Song”. In April\, The Magnolia House announced that it would once again open as an inn this fall.\nMagnolia House Website \nRODNEY DAWSON is the Curator of Education for the Greensboro Historical Museum. He is an Army veteran\, former on-air radio personality\, and former Crisis Prevention Intervention instructor. He received his Ed.S (Education Specialist) degree from Liberty University.\nHe is responsible for a variety of the Museum’s virtual experiences\, including the Juneteenth celebration and a forthcoming Holocaust program. \nThis event is sponsored by:
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/candacy-taylor/
LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T133000
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CREATED:20210330T174835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T144236Z
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SUMMARY:LIVE Your Story\, Your Voice: A Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin Our Stories\, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice\, Empowerment\, and Growing Up Female in America editor AMY REED and contributors AMBER SMITH and IW GREGORIO in a writing workshop to explore how to find your own “voice” as a writer. Each author will speak about their journey and then guide participants through a writing exercise to uncover your own voice. Workshop will conclude with a participant discussion and an opportunity to share your writing.  A great opportunity to explore writing in an authentic voice for young adults\, parents of young adults\, aspiring YA writers\, and marginalized communities. \n \n  \n  \nConversations \nSaturday\, 5/15 – Part 1 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Four Years On\nSunday\, 5/16 –  Part 2 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Writing As Activism\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 \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:
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/ya-workshop/
LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Workshop,Young Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T110000
DTSTAMP:20260410T161459
CREATED:20210330T174804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T225509Z
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SUMMARY:Our Stories\, Our Voices: Writing As Activism
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 AMBER SMITH and IW GREGORIO as they discuss what it means to write in one’s own voice\, how do you make the personal political\, what is the role of literature and art in social justice\, and how is artistic or literary activism defined. \nSaturday\, 5/15 – Part 1 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Four Years On\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 \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:
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/our-stories-our-voices-2/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Young Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T160000
DTSTAMP:20260410T161459
CREATED:20210401T071157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210510T161316Z
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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.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/bailey-sellers/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T130000
DTSTAMP:20260410T161459
CREATED:20210401T071859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210421T203648Z
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SUMMARY:Love\, Justice\, and Healing with Sharon Salzberg & Omid Safi
DESCRIPTION:Join us in a discussion on love\, justice\, and healing with SHARON SALZBERG and OMID SAFI.  Host MOLLY SENTELL HAILE will explore how ideas of radical love and loving kindness relate to our personal lives\, pandemic living\, and social change. Sharon Salzberg is a central figure in the field of meditation and a world-renowned teacher and author of eleven books\, including the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness and\, most recently\, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World. Omid Safi\, translator and editor of Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition\, is a professor of Islamic studies at Duke University and leads Illuminated Tours interfaith journeys. Both Safi and Salzberg have been columnists for On Being\, a website and public radio program that explores what it is to be human and how we want to live.[rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nSHARON SALZBERG is a meditation pioneer and industry leader\, a world-renowned teacher\, and New York Times bestselling author. As one of the first to bring meditation and mindfulness into mainstream American culture over 45 years ago\, her relatable\, demystifying approach has inspired generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre\, MA\, and the author of eleven books\, including the New York Times bestseller\, Real Happiness\, now in its second edition\, her seminal work\, Lovingkindness\, and her newest book\, Real Change: Mindfulness To Heal Ourselves and the World. Sharon’s secular\, modern approach to Buddhist teachings is sought after at schools\, conferences\, and retreat centers worldwide. Her podcast\, The Metta Hour\, has amassed over 3 million downloads and features interviews with the top leaders and thinkers of the mindfulness movement and beyond. Sharon’s writing can be found on Medium\, On Being\, the Maria Shriver blog\, and Huffington Post.\nAuthor Website \nOMID SAFI is a teacher in the Sufi tradition of Radical Love. He is a professor at Duke University specializing in Islamic spirituality and contemporary thought. Omid has published extensively on the foundational sources of Islam and Sufism. His Memories of Muhammad is a biography of the Prophet Muhammad. His most recent book is Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition (published by Yale). He has been invited by the family of Dr. King to speak at Ebenezer Church on the relevance of Dr. King for today’s America\, and has delivered the Martin Luther King keynote in the annual national MLK service.  His Illuminated Tours have taken more than a 1\,000 friends from over twenty countries to Turkey and Morocco since 2002\, and he is now offering Illuminated Courses for online offerings on spiritual traditions open to seekers of all backgrounds.\nAuthor Website \nMOLLY SENTELL HAILE’s short stories and nonfiction have appeared in or are forthcoming in Oxford American\, The North Carolina Literary Review\, O. Henry Magazine\, Jabberwock Review\, and elsewhere. She was awarded the 2020 Doris Betts Fiction Prize\, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and was a notable 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 her first novel. \n  \nThis presentation is sponsored by
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/salzberg-safi/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T120000
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CREATED:20210401T072046Z
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories with Lisa Levenstein & Shanna Greene Benjamin
DESCRIPTION:Join the discussion with SHANNA GREENE BENJAMIN and LISA LEVENSTEIN  about memory\, the public persona and the private individual\, the biographer/historian’s relationship to her subject(s)\, and the intersectionality of sexism\, racism\, and economic inequality. Benjamin’s Half in Shadow gives a full and surprising picture of the life of Nellie Y. McKay (1930-2006)\, an American literary scholar best known for her collaboration with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr. on The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. McKay\, a Black working-class woman\, kept much of her private life in secret\, creating a public persona as one of many strategies she used to navigate the primarily white male American academy while simultaneously lifting up Black scholarly and literary voices in the academy. Levenstein’s They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties takes a closer look at a time when many (including the cover of Time magazine) declared feminism dead. Instead\, Levenstein uncovers a vital (and overlooked) transition period when multiracial and grassroots organizers across the globe (re)shaped the women’s movement. Hosted by ANN CAHILL.  [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \nDR. SHANNA GREENE BENJAMIN  is a biographer and scholar who studies the literature\, lives\, and archives of Black women. Dr. Benjamin earned her Ph.D. in English and M.A. in Afro-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; she received a B.A. in English from Johnson C. Smith University—a historically Black college in Charlotte\, North Carolina.  She is also a Mellon Mays undergraduate fellow who now serves on the UNCF/Mellon Board of Advisors. Dr. Benjamin currently lives with her family in Charlotte\, North Carolina.\nAuthors Website \nDR. LISA LEVENSTEIN is Director of the Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Program and Associate Professor of History at UNC Greensboro. Her first book\, A Movement Without Marches\, won the Kenneth Jackson Book Award. She lives in Chapel Hill\, NC.\nAuthor Website \nDR. ANN CAHILL is a professor of philosophy at Elon University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist theory and philosophy of the body\, and her scholarship has addressed topics such as sexual assault\, miscarriage\, beautification\, and sex work. Her forthcoming book\, Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice\, co-authored with Christine Hamel\, explores the social\, political\, and ethical meanings of voice as human-generated sound. \nThis event is sponsored by \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/levenstein-benjamin/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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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:
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/our-stories-our-voices-1/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Young Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260410T161459
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SUMMARY:Chefs Ricky Moore & Whitney Otawka
DESCRIPTION:We’ll talk the craft of food with award winning chef and author WHITNEY OTAWKA as she shares her journey from the Mojave Desert in California to Cumberland Island\, Georgia with stops along the way in Michelin starred kitchens and a season of Top Chef\, and RICKY MOORE\, who after a stint in the military attended the Culinary Institute of America\, also worked in Michelin starred restaurants around the world\, and competed in Iron Chef before deciding to return home to North Carolina to open his own seafood joint. Host DABNEY SANDERS chats with our chefs about seafood\, a sense of place\, family\, and of course you won’t want to miss the discussion of Ben’s biscuits and the almighty pork chop. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nWHITNEY OTAWKA is a chef\, writer\, and author of The Saltwater Table: Recipes from the Coastal South. With more than 125 recipes\, The Saltwater Table is a reflection of the cuisine Whitney has explored through her travels along the Coastal South and time as Executive Chef at Greyfield Inn on Cumberland Island. The cookbook reflects a modern perspective on southern flavors with a strong emphasis on vegetables and fresh ingredients. Her recipes have been published in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Garden & Gun\, and Culture. She is currently overseeing the restaurant development of the soon to be open Thompson Hotel in Savannah (Summer 2021).\nChef Website \nRICKY MOORE is a self-professed evangelist of North Carolina seafood and owner of the popular Saltbox Seafood Joint restaurants in Durham\, North Carolina.  Taking inspiration from the famous wet markets in Singapore\, Moore focuses purely on the food inspired by his native Carolina coast\, and its traditional roadside fish shacks and camps. In 2007\, during his tenure as Executive Chef at Agraia in Washington DC (now known as Founding Farmers)\, Moore’s reputation earned him a spot competing against Chef Michael Symon on “Iron Chef America.” Today Moore continues to fulfill his lifelong dream as an entrepreneur\, professional\, and preserver of North Carolina fisherman and foodways.  Moore was born and raised in the North Carolina coastal town of New Bern\, where catching and eating fresh fish and shellfish is a way of life. He draws inspiration from his Eastern North Carolina culinary background\, as well as from culinary experiences across the globe.\nChef Website \nDABNEY SANDERS is the Project Manager for the Downtown Greenway – a collaborative project of Action Greensboro and the City of Greensboro and Board Chair of the Greensboro Literary Organization\, producer of the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival.  Dabney grew up in Rhode Island\, but has lived in North Carolina for more than 30 years and was named the 2019 Jim Roach Downtown Person of the Year by Downtown Greensboro. Dabney has a passion for food\, is a self-taught cook\, and has cooked professionally in the past\, but now enjoys entertaining for friends\, family\, and to support community organizations. She lives in Fisher Park with her husband\, Walker\, two dogs Hudson and Scout\, and 4 chickens Emma\, Adelaide\, Phoebe\, and Violet.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/moore-otawka/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Cookbooks,Non-Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T170000
DTSTAMP:20260410T161459
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SUMMARY:Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring
DESCRIPTION:An in-depth discussion with veteran investigative reporters KYRA GURNEY\, NICHOLAS NEHAMAS\,  JAY WEAVER and JIM WYSS as host  JOHN COX digs into their work to tell the story of death\, drugs\, and corruption within the gold mining industry within Latin America and the the impact the pursuit of greed has on the people caught both willingly and unwillingly within its wake. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nNICHOLAS NEHAMAS  is an investigative reporter at the Miami Herald\, where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that broke the Panama Papers in 2016. He and his Herald colleagues were also named Pulitzer finalists in 2019 for the series “Dirty Gold\, Clean Cash.” He has co-authored two books\, The Grifter’s Club: Trump\, Mar-a-Lago\, and the Selling of the Presidency  and Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring. He joined the Herald in 2014\, where he covered healthcare and real estate before joining the investigations team. \nKYRA GURNEY is a journalist based in Washington\, D.C. She has worked at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and at the Miami Herald\, where she and her co-authors were finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for “Dirty Gold\, Clean Cash\,” a series on the illegal gold trade. Before working at the Miami Herald\, Kyra was a reporter at InSight Crime\, a nonprofit investigative journalism outlet based in Colombia. Kyra has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. \nJAY WEAVER  is an award-winning journalist who has covered the federal courts and produced major investigative projects at the Miami Herald for more than 20 years. In 2018\, he collaborated with a team of Herald reporters on an investigative series about a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme involving Miami imports of tons of gold from South America mined by cocaine traffickers and other criminals\, which was honored as a 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Explanatory Reporting.  In 2001\, Weaver was part of the Miami Herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for the paper’s coverage of the federal government’s seizure of Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez.  Weaver  received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nJIM WYSS is a prize-winning journalist who has spent most of his career in Latin America. From 2011-2020 he was the Miami Herald’s South America correspondent based in Colombia\, where he was also part of the reporting team that uncovered the Panama Papers and won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He now lives in Puerto Rico\, where he covers the Caribbean for Bloomberg News. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University through the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship. \nJOHN COX is the Director of UNC Charlotte’s Center for Holocaust\, Genocide & Human Rights Center. He earned his PhD in History from UNC Chapel Hill and has written and lectured widely on racism and genocide\, human rights\, and resistance to Nazism and other oppressive systems. He is the author of two books on fascism\, genocide\, and resistance: To Kill a People: Genocide in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press\, 2017) and Circles of Resistance: Leftist\, Jewish\, and Youth Dissidence during the Third Reich (2009).
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/dirty-gold/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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