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Guilford County Schools Poet Laureate Reading

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2020 marks the 17th year of a unique and remarkable community partnership within Guilford County Schools and supported by Greensboro Bound, Greensboro’s Literary Festival, in recognizing and encouraging the writing and appreciation of poetry by High School students.  This year 13 schools participated in this county-wide poetry contest.  Each school holds a local contest, and then submits finalists for selection of a Poet Laureate.  The finalist […]

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Reading and Q&A with Lora Beth Johnson, YA author of The Goddess in the Machine

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Join Scuppernong Books for a virtual reading of one of the hottest sci-fi YA releases of the summer with debut author LORA BETH JOHNSON and her novel Goddess in the Machine.  She will be joined in conversation by SCOTT REINTGEN, author of the Nyxia series and Ashlords. Get your copy of Goddess in the Machine at Scuppernong Books! How […]

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$$ Young Writers Workshop: Bill Konigsberg

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Join award-winning, former Greensboro Bound YA author BILL KONIGSBERG for a talk on the art and craft of writing for young adults LIVE this THURSDAY, September 24 at 7:00PM. This PAID EVENT is hosted by our independent book seller partner Scuppernong Books! http://www.scuppernongbooks.com Registration includes Zoom access and a copy of Bill's new novel The […]

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LIVE An Evening with Nnedi Okorafor

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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.

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Our Stories, Our Voices: Four Years On

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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 […]

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Our Stories, Our Voices: Writing As Activism

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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 […]

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Writing Outside the Lines: Nonbinary Authors Changing YA, with Mason Deaver & Nita Tyndall

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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 […]

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LIVE Your Story, Your Voice: A Writing Workshop

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  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 […]

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Guilford County Schools High School Poet Laureate Year-end Reading

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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 […]

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