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SUMMARY:LIVE An Evening with Nnedi Okorafor
DESCRIPTION:NNEDI OKORAFOR is a Nigerian-American author of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism for children and adults. Her works include Who Fears Death\, the Binti novella trilogy\, The Book of Phoenix\, “Akata”\, “Lagoon” and “Ikenga”\, and her latest novel\, Remote Control.  She is the winner of Hugo\, Nebula\, World Fantasy\, Locus and Lodestar Awards and her debut novel\, Zahrah the Windseeker won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature.  She has also written comics for Marvel\, including Black Panther: Long Live the King\, Wakanda Forever\, the “Shuri” series and an Africanfuturist comic series Laguardia\, as well as a short memoir\, Broken Places and Outer Spaces. Additionally\, she has co-written the adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed with Viola Davis and Kenyan film director Wanuri Kahiu. Nnedi holds a PhD in literature and two master’s degrees in journalism and literature. She lives with her daughter Anyaugo and family in Illinois.  Hosted by DR. TARA GREEN\, UNCG Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the Linda Arnold Carlisle Excellence Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. [rsvp & registration required; see below]\nAuthor Website \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \n  \nThis event is made possible by the UNCG University Libraries. \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/nnedi-okorafor/
LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult,Sci-fi/Fantasy,Young Adult
ORGANIZER;CN="UNCG University Libraries":MAILTO:nakia.hoskins@uncg.edu
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T110000
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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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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
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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:20210519T180000
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SUMMARY:Guilford County Schools High School Poet Laureate Year-end Reading
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Worrells\, HS Poet Laureate coordinator and Library Media Specialist at Grimsley High School. \n2021 Poetry Judge\nJ. SCOTT WALKER is an English and creative writing teacher based in Greensboro.  When he’s not teaching he writes songs\, plays\, and poetry.  A graduate of Appalachian State University and the University of Alaska\, his poems have appeared in Town Creek Poetry\, Big River Poetry\, Cold Mountain Review\, and Cirque. The emphasis on place in his work is the natural product of having lived in ten US states including both Carolinas\, Pennsylvania\, Nevada\, and Alaska.  He has also traveled extensively outside of the US both in a physical sense and also in his imagination. His collection A Concept of Right Now was published in 2019. \nREGISTRATION REQUIRED \n[“view event page” link below]
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/2021-poet-laureate-reading/
LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult,Poetry,Young Adult
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