Join us for a not-to-be-missed conversation with award-winning Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor! Her works of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism, works include Who Fears Death (currently in series development with HBO), the Binti novella trilogy, The Book of Phoenix, and the Akata series and Lagoon.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Hosted by Jennifer Worrells, HS Poet Laureate coordinator and Library Media Specialist at Grimsley High School. 2021 Poetry Judge J. 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 […]
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 […]