Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice, and the Voice

Scuppernong Books 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Sounding Bodies presents a powerful model of how the seemingly disparate disciplines of philosophy and voice/speech training can, in conversation with each other, generate illuminating insights about our vocal lives and identities. Utilising the […]

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Journalism and Activism

International Civil Rights Center & Museum 134 SElm Street, Greensboro, NC

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Journalists 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 TESSIE CASTILLO, […]

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Eating & Drinking Together: How Food Shapes Culture

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* JULIA SKINNER and MARCIE COHEN FERRIS are both food historians and they bring deep understanding of the role of food and drink in our past and in our present. Each author examines how culinary excellence, […]

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Just Bring Yourself: A Conversation with Ann Hood and Julia Ridley Smith

Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Join 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 […]

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Beth Macy

Union Square Auditorium 124 E Gate City Blvd, Greensboro, NC

            Greensboro Bound presents BETH MACY, author of Raising Lazarus and Dopesick,  in partnership with Cone Health and Scuppernong Books. Due to limited seating rsvp is requested. Please note: **RSVPs over venue capacity will be placed on standby and you will be notified.**   Raising Lazarus is the crucial next installment in […]

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Author Heath Lee Reveals ‘The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon’

Well-Spring Retirement Community - Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro, NC

In partnership with the Historical Book Club of North Carolina and Well-Spring, A Life Plan Community, please join us as we welcome award-winning historian and biographer Heath Hardage Lee, just as her latest book, The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: Washington’s Most Private  First Lady, debuts. Heath’s narrative nonfiction book entitled The League of Wives:  The Untold Story […]

2025 Greensboro Bound Book Festival

  OUR ALL DAY FESTIVAL IS SATURDAY, MAY 17.  We’ll be exploring themes of family, the many meanings of home, and the past as prologue. We’ll have some serious fun with Taylor Swift songs, flesh out the best obituary ever written, and take a look at how N.C. became a purple state. What happens when […]

Reshaping the Divide: An Evening with Cristina Henríquez

Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

Join us for a compelling evening with New York Times best-selling author Cristina Henríquez as we close out this year’s Greensboro Bound Book Festival with a powerful, thought-provoking discussion. While the festival takes place May 17, this culminating event on May 28 offers one final opportunity to gather in celebration of literature and storytelling. Henríquez […]