BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Greensboro Bound - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Greensboro Bound X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://greensborobound.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Greensboro Bound REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230713T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230713T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20230612T164844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230612T164844Z UID:13070-1689274800-1689280200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Jeanette Walls DESCRIPTION:Scuppernong Books presents New York Times Bestselling author JEANNETTE WALLS.\n \nHANG THE MOON\nSallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town\, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege\, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old\, the Duke has remarried and had a son\, Eddie. While Sallie is her father’s daughter\, sharp-witted and resourceful\, Eddie is his mother’s son\, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father\, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident\, and Sallie is cast out. \nNine years later\, she returns\, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That’s a lot more complicated than Sallie expected\, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House\, navigates the factions in the family and town\, and finally comes into her own as a bold\, sometimes reckless bootlegger. \nYou will fall in love with Sallie Kincaid\, a feisty and fearless\, terrified and damaged young woman who refuses to be corralled. \n\n \nWHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING\n“A rip-roaring\, action-packed novel set during prohibition filled with head-spinning plot twists and enough dead bodies\, doomed romances\, and sudden betrayals to make you wonder if George R.R. Martin had decided to ditch fantasy for Southern Gothic.” —The New York Times \n“A propulsive read. Hang the Moon goes down easy… like the forbidden whisky that defines the life of Sallie Kincaid.” —Associated Press \n“Jeannette Walls’s masterwork… a thrill ride through Prohibition and change in the American south… Glorious.” —The Washington Post\n \nJEANNETTE WALLS  graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir\, The Glass Castle\, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses\, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband\, the writer John Taylor. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/jeanette-walls/ LOCATION:Congregational Church of Christ\, 400 W Radiance Drive\, Greensboro END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230708T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230708T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20230615T133319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T133618Z UID:13092-1688814000-1688824800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:2nd Annual Downtown Greenway Community Picnic DESCRIPTION:July is National Parks & Recreation Month\, and the theme for 2023 is “Where Community Grows” – what better way to celebrate community than by gathering with friends and family for a good ol’ pig pickin’ outdoors! \nAction Greensboro and Greensboro Parks and Recreation are excited to announce the 2nd Annual Downtown Greenway Community Picnic! \nJoin us for an afternoon pig pickin’ with the most famous pit master in North Carolina\, Ed Mitchell\, who recently published a new cookbook alongside his son\, Ryan Mitchell. \nEnjoy delicious whole-hog barbeque fresh off the smoker\, along with classic southern sides and dessert provided by downtown Greensboro restaurant\, ‘cille & ‘scoe. Greensboro songwriter\, Colin Cutler\, will provide live music\, while local speaker\, Ivey Ghee\, serves as emcee and conversation partner with Ed and Ryan. Hardcover copies of Ed Mitchell’s Barbeque can be purchased online from Scuppernong Books\, and they will be offering on-site book sales at the picnic. \n  \nThis event has limited capacity – don’t delay\, and purchase your tickets today! \n\n$40 for adults\n$20 for children 12 & under\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis collaborative event is made possible thanks to Greensboro Parks & Recreation and Greensboro Bound. All proceeds will support free community programming offered year-round along the Downtown Greenway. \nQuestions? For more information\, please contact Chelsea Phipps at chelsea.phipps(at)greensboro-nc.gov\, or Dabney Sanders at dsanders(at)actiongreensboro.org URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/community-picnic/ LOCATION:Downtown Greenway\, near the corner of MLK Jr Drive and Bragg Street END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230518 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230521 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20230124T194936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230612T170057Z UID:12807-1684368000-1684627199@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:2023 Greensboro Bound Literary Festival DESCRIPTION:VIEW EVENTS: https://events.greensborobound.com/ URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/2023-festival/ LOCATION:NC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230504T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230504T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20230612T170932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230612T170932Z UID:13080-1683216000-1683223200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Italy On a Plate\, an afternoon with Susan Gravely DESCRIPTION:Join Greensboro Bound and Well-Spring Retirement Community as we welcome author and founder of Vietri dinnerware SUSAN GRAVELY! This event will also feature a display of Vietri dinnerware\, courtesy of The Extra Ingredient. Book signing will follow the conversation with Susan. \nSUSAN GRAVELY is the Founder and the CEO of VIETRI\, Inc.\, a lifestyle brand of Italian artisan-crafted dinnerware and home and garden accessories. VIETRI was founded in 1983 by Lee Gravely and her daughters\, Susan and Frances\, after a family trip to Italy where they fell in love with the colorful hand painted Italian dinnerware of the Amalfi Coast. \nVIETRI is now America’s largest Italian ceramics importing company\, partnering with numerous Italian manufacturers in various regions throughout Italy. VIETRI serves a customer base of over 2\,000 specialty retailers and department stores in all 50 states and internationally. Susan has written several children’s Christmas books and her first cookbook\, Italy on a Plate\, shares lively stories and delectable recipes that are as warm and inviting as the many meals she’s hosted for friends and strangers alike. She lives in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina with her husband\, Bill\, and dog\, Franco. READ MORE ABOUT SUSAN \n  \nThis event is sponsored by: Well-Spring Retirement Community and Vietri URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/susan-gravely/ LOCATION:Well-Spring Retirement Community – Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre\, 4100 Well Spring Drive\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27410 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20230612T170445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230612T170445Z UID:13077-1681412400-1681417800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:An Evening with Marlon James DESCRIPTION:Greensboro Bound\, in generous partnership with the UNCG University Libraries\, is pleased to announce AN EVENING WITH MARLON JAMES. Join host Sara Graybeal as she talks with Marlon about his literary craft. Submit questions for the author at the registration link. \nMarlon James is the author of five novels and his short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies and journals.  His latest work\, Moon Witch\, Spider King is the second in his Dark Star Trilogy. The first was  Black Leopard\, Red Wolf and the final will be titled White Wing\, Dark Star. \nBorn in Jamaica\, James attended the University of the West Indies and later Wilkes University in Pennsylvania where he received a Master’s Degree in creative writing. He lives in Minneapolis\, Minnesota and teaches English and creative writing at Macalester College. In 2018 Marlon James received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. In April 2019 he was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2019 in the Pioneers category. READ MORE ABOUT MARLON \nThis event is made possible by the UNCG University Libraries\, Greensboro Bound\, The Greensboro Review\, the UNCG Department of African American & Diaspora Studies\, and the UNCG Department of Library & Information Science. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/marlon-james/ LOCATION:NC ORGANIZER;CN="UNCG University Libraries":MAILTO:nakia.hoskins@uncg.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20221027T161537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221116T190559Z UID:12662-1669829400-1669834800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Cooks with Books: André Darlington Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Join MACHETE restaurant and SCUPPERNONG BOOKS for the launch of award-winning food and beverage author ANDRÉ DARLNGTON’s latest book BarMenu:100+ Drinking Food Recipes for Cocktail Hours at Home.\n\nThis 1 1/2 hour event will feature a cocktail and snack pairing\, as well as an opportunity to mingle with André Darlington\, who will be signing books and answering questions. \nThis is a community table event with limited seating for 32 in the front lounge at MACHETE—so get your tickets early to reserve your spot! Be sure to add the number of books you wish to include when you purchase your ticket (one book purchase required per couple). You will also be able to order additional cocktails and snacks at the event if desired\, as well as additional copies of Bar Menu for yourself or for gifting. You may also make a separate reservation after 7:15p if you wish to have a full dining experience after the book signing. \n•Event ticket: $25/person\n•Book: $28 (one book purchase required per couple)\n•taxes & 22% gratuity will be added at check-out \nBecause alcoholic beverages will be served\,  this event is reserved for those 21 years of age and over. \n \nANDRÉ DARLNGTON is the bestselling author of Booze Cruise: A Tour of the World’s Essential Mixed Drinks and Gotham City Cocktails: Official Handcrafted Food & Drinks From the World of Batman\, as well as The Official John Wayne Cocktail Book (Nov 1\, ‘22) and Bar Menu (Oct 18\, ‘22) . He is co-author of Booze & Vinyl\, Booze & Vinyl Vol. 2\, The New Cocktail Hour\, and TCM’s Movie Night Menus.  André has been a columnist for Organic Life magazine\, a contributor to Mandarin Quarterly\, as well as the alt-weekly\, Isthmus\, where he was an award-winning food critic and wine columnist. In 2016 he opened the lauded farm-to-table restaurant and natural wine bar\, Field Table\, designed by JBF award-winning architects\, Heliotrope. André has been a Napa Valley Vintners’ Association Fellow and a judge for the international wine competition\, Concours Mondial de Bruxelles\, as well as for the American Craft Distillers Association. He is a frequent guest speaker for companies\, non-profits\, and clubs such as Google\, The Smithsonian\, ThinkCompany\, and Park House Dallas. \nMACHETE is a 2022 James Beard semifinalist for Best New Restaurant. “Simple perfection and casual professionalism are our objectives\, and we aim to delight and arouse the senses without being pretentious. We source the best ingredients locally and from around the world to fulfill our vision of creating distinctive\, delicious\, beautiful comfort food and cocktails. Our philosophy is that food should not only be delicious\, it should also be creative\, evoke memories\, and be a communal experience to catch up with old friends and make new ones. We encourage you to have fun\, laugh\, and enjoy everyone around you.” URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/andre-darlington/ LOCATION:Machete\, 600 C Battleground Avenue\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T153000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20221014T024831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221014T024831Z UID:12656-1668348000-1668353400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Soman Chainani at Scuppernong Books DESCRIPTION:In advance of his Authors Engaging Students program visits with Guilford County Schools Library Media Services\, New York Times Bestselling middle grade author SOMAN CHAINANI will be stopping by Scuppernong Books! \nJoin Soman at Scup for a live in-person event and signing\, Sunday\, November 3 at 2:00PM! The movie adaptation of his The School for Good and Evil series releases on Netflix on October 19…don’t miss your chance to meet the author and read the bestselling series that started it all!\n\nGET THE BOOKS \nSOMAN CHAINANI’s debut series\, THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD & EVIL\, has sold more than 3 million copies\, been translated into 30 languages across six continents\, and will be a major motion picture from Netflix in 2022\, starring Charlize Theron\, Kerry Washington\, Laurence Fishburne\, and Michelle Yeoh. \nHis anthology of retold fairytales\, BEASTS & BEAUTY\, debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List\, his seventh book in a row to do so\, and is slated to be a limited television series from Sony 3000. Together\, his books have been on the New York Times Bestseller List for 44 weeks. \nA graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s MFA Film Program\, Soman has been nominated for the Waterstone Prize for Children’s Literature\, been named to the Out100\, and also received the $100\,000 Shasha Grant and the Sun Valley Writer’s Fellowship\, both for debut writers. \nHis latest novel\, RISE OF THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD & EVIL\, kickstarts a new series under his EverNever World brand.  Follow Soman on Instagram @somanc URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/soman-chainani/ LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:Middle Grade END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220929T154812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T161809Z UID:12570-1665687600-1665691200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Simon & Schuster AuthorFest - JOHN IRVING & JASON REYNOLDS DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, October 13\, 2022 at 7:00 PM EST for a conversation with New York Times bestselling authors JOHN IRVING  and JASON REYNOLDS\, moderated by Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp. \n\nBy registering\, you also agree to receive email updates from Simon & Schuster and agree to the privacy policy and terms of use. \n\nBooks can be purchased from our independent bookseller partner Scuppernong Books. \n  \n JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter\, New Hampshire\, in 1942. His first novel\, Setting Free the Bears\, was published in 1968\, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years\, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater\, Oklahoma. In 1980\, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000\, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013\, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. An international writer\, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel\, in every language\, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada\, John Irving lives in Toronto.\n  \nJohn Irving\, one of the world’s greatest novelists\, returns with his first novel in seven years—a ghost story\, a love story\, and a lifetime of sexual politics… The Last Chairlift   In Aspen\, Colorado\, in 1941\, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray\, as she is called\, finishes nowhere near the podium\, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home\, in New England\, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son\, Adam\, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later\, looking for answers\, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome\, where he was conceived\, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift\, they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees.\n\n\n \n\nJASON REYNOLDS is a #1 New York Times bestselling author\, a Newbery Award Honoree\, a Printz Award Honoree\, a two-time National Book Award finalist\, a Kirkus Award winner\, a Carnegie Medal winner\, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner\, an NAACP Image Award Winner\, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. He’s also the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); When I Was the Greatest; The Boy in the Black Suit; Stamped; As Brave as You; For Every One; the Track series (Ghost\, Patina\, Sunny\, and Lu); Look Both Ways; Stuntboy\, in the Meantime; Ain’t Burned All the Bright\, and My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. (both co-written with Jason Griffin); and Long Way Down\, which received a Newbery Honor\, a Printz Honor\, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. He lives in Washington\, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com \nPrepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now…Ain’t Burned All the Bright   Jason Reynolds and his best bud\, Jason Griffin\, had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it\, in one fell swoop\, in about ten sentences\, and 300 pages of art\, this piece\, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word\, especially NOW. And so for anyone who didn’t really know what it means to not be able to breathe\, REALLY breathe\, for generations\, now you know. And those who already do\, you’ll be nodding yep yep\, that is exactly how it is.\n\n  \nWHAT IS AUTHORFEST?\nEach season Simon & Schuster partners with book festivals nationwide to present insightful panel discussions between celebrated authors.\n\nWHO IS FEATURED?\nThe Fall 2022 AuthorFest Event will feature New York Times bestselling authors John Irving and Jason Reynolds. Both legendary authors are famous for crafting thought-provoking stories about the expression of self-identity through explorations of race\, class\, and sexuality. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/irving-reynolds/ LOCATION:ZOOM CATEGORIES:Adult END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T194500 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220829T164243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T152657Z UID:12539-1665079200-1665085500@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Beth Macy DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nGreensboro Bound presents BETH MACY\, author of Raising Lazarus and Dopesick\,  in partnership with Cone Health and Scuppernong Books.\n\nDue to limited seating rsvp is requested. Please note: **RSVPs over venue capacity will be placed on standby and you will be notified.**\n\n \n  \n\nRaising Lazarus is the crucial next installment in the story of the defining disaster of our era\, one that touches every single one of us\, whether directly or indirectly. A complex story of public health\, big pharma\, dark money\, politics\, race\, and class that is by turns harrowing and heartening\, infuriating and inspiring\, Raising Lazarus is a must-read for all Americans. \nAvailable for purchase from our independent bookseller partner\, Scuppernong Books.  \nBETH MACY is a Virginia-based journalist\, the author of Dopesick: Dealers\, Doctors\, and the Drug Company That Addicted America\, and an executive producer and cowriter on Hulu’s Peabody Award-winning “Dopesick” series. \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/beth-macy/ LOCATION:Union Square Auditorium\, 124 E Gate City Blvd\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27406 CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220325T213608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025305Z UID:8736-1653235200-1653238800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Just Bring Yourself: A Conversation with Ann Hood and Julia Ridley Smith DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \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 \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.* \nJoin 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 (or little) are family members and friends included in the research and writing? We’ll also talk about the role of humor in memoir and how these writers approach memoir differently from (or similarly to) the fiction they write. With ANN HOOD and JULIA RIDLEY SMITH. Hosted by MOLLY SENTELL HAILE. \n  \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• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen \nANN HOOD is the author of the bestselling novels The Knitting Circle\, The Obituary Writer and The Book That Matters Most. Her memoir\, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief\, was a NYT Editors Choice and was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Rhode Island and NYC. \nJULIA RIDLEY SMITH is the author of a memoir\, The Sum of Trifles (University of Georgia Press\, 2021). She’s published fiction in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Electric Literature\, The Southern Review\, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Ecotone\, the New England Review\, and Southern Cultures\, and was recognized as notable in The Best American Essays. She has taught creative writing and literature at UNC Greensboro and is the 2021–22 Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC Chapel Hill. \nMOLLY SENTELL HAILE is a writer and educator whose short stories and nonfiction have appeared in Oxford American\, The North Carolina Literary Review\, Epiphany\, O. Henry Magazine\, and elsewhere. She was awarded the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and is a Pushcart and O. Henry Award nominee. Her work received a Notable designation 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 on her first novel. \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/hood-smith/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T153000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220325T195251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025323Z UID:8427-1653229800-1653233400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Eating & Drinking Together: How Food Shapes Culture DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \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 \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.* \nJULIA 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\, entrepreneurship\, and the struggle for racial justice converge in shaping food equity. Hosted by TAL BELVINS \nDR. JULIA SKINNER  is passionate about what we eat and the stories behind it. She uses her broad-ranging background\, from libraries to kitchens to visual art and even city bus driving to help us understand our food. She is the author of Our Fermented Lives: A History of How Fermented Foods Have Shaped Cultures & Communities. She also owns Root\, Atlanta’s fermentation and food history company offering classes\, consulting\, and other services worldwide. Julia’s writing has appeared in a number of national and regional outlets\, as well as in scholarly journals\, and she writes and illustrates a weekly newsletter on food issues. Julia is an avid fermenter\, regularly brewing and pickling whatever she can get her hands on\, as well as working with wild plants in her garden. You can follow her work at @rootkitchens or @bookishjulia. \nMARCIE COHEN FERRIS\, author of The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region and Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South\, is professor emerita of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \nTAL BLEVINS is the owner of MACHETE\, a James Beard-nominated restaurant in Greensboro\, NC. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/eating-and-drinking-together/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:Cookbooks,LGBTQIA,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T153000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220322T192411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025332Z UID:8536-1653229800-1653233400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Journalism and Activism DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \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 \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.* \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 TESSIE CASTILLO\, TARA T. GREEN\, and LYNDEN HARRIS. Hosted by JOE KILLIAN. This panel is in partnership with the PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter.  **The ICRCM requires all guests to wear face coverings. View policy under “Museum Protocols”.** 4/5/22 \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 \n  \nTESSIE CASTILLO is an author\, journalist and public speaker who specializes in stories on prison reform\, drug policy\, restorative justice\, and racial equity. She is the editor of Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row\, an original anthology of writings about the death penalty that features entries by Castillo as well as several current residents of North Carolina’s Death Row. In 2021 Crimson Letters was a finalist for the 2021 Eric Hoffer award for excellence in small press publishing and Castillo received the Victor Hassine Memorial Scholarship at American University for using creative work to educate the public on criminal justice issues. Tessie Castillo lives in Durham\, North Carolina with her daughter. To see more of her writings or to request a speaking engagement with her and her co-authors\, visit www.tessiecastillo.com. \nTARA T. GREEN is an award-winning scholar and professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. She is the author and editor of six books\, including Love\, Activism\, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era. She is from the suburbs of New Orleans. \nLYNDEN HARRIS is the founder of Hidden Voices\, a radically inclusive\, participatory\, and co-creative collective committed to a more just and compassionate world. For twenty years\, Lynden has collaborated with underrepresented communities to create award-winning works that combine narrative\, performance\, mapping\, music\, digital media\, and interactive exhibits. During her decades facilitating community connections\, Lynden developed a participatory workshop model to empower change through collective visioning and collaborative action. This process facilitates a dynamic exchange between documentary\, art\, and community that allows for a multiplicity of voices and a multiplexity of understandings. The former Artistic Director of ArtsCenter Stage\, Lynden was a founding Cultural Agent for the US Department of Arts and Culture and member of the MAP Fund Class of 2017 for Serving Life: ReVisioning Justice. Lynden is a 2020-21 Fellow with A Blade of Grass\, the 2020 recipient of the Ann Atwater Theater Award\, and the 2020 North Carolina Playwriting Fellow. Her music theater work-in-development\, A GOOD BOY\, is currently a semifinalist for the National Music Theater Conference. RIGHT HERE\, RIGHT NOW: Life Stories from America’s Death Row was published by Duke University Press in 2021. \nJOE KILLIAN is a senior investigative reporter at N.C. Policy Watch. His work takes a closer look at government\, politics and policy in North Carolina and their impact on the lives of everyday people. Before joining Policy Watch\, Joe worked in daily newspapers for more than a decade covering cops\, courts\, local and state government\, congressional campaigns and national political conventions. He has worked at the Bristol Press in Bristol\, Connecticut; The Cape Cod Times in Hyannis\, Massachusetts\, and The News & Record in Greensboro\, NC. His work has appeared in daily and weekly papers\, magazines and digital-first publications across the state and country. He is currently working on a book about the politicization of the North Carolina’s public university system. \n  \nSponsored by PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/journalism-and-activism/ LOCATION:International Civil Rights Center & Museum\, 134 SElm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Non-Fiction,Social Justice END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220325T213002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025341Z UID:8731-1653228000-1653231600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \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 \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.* \nSounding 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 framework of feminist philosophy\, authors Ann J. Cahill and Christine Hamel approach the phenomenon of voice as a lived\, sonorous and embodied experience marked by the social structures that surround it\, including systemic forms of injustice such as ableism\, sexism\, racism\, and classism. By developing novel theoretical constructs such as “intervocality” and “respiratory responsibility\,” Cahill and Hamel cut through the static between theory and praxis and put forward exciting theories on how human vocal sound can perpetuate — and challenge — persistent inequalities. With ANN CAHILL\, CHRISTINE HAMEL\, and TONA BROWN. Hosted by AUDREY SMITH. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen\n•  The Truth about Disability: What We Don’t Talk About\n• A Musical Thriller: Brendan Slocumb and Tona Brown in Conversation \n  \nANN CAHILL is Professor of Philosophy at Elon University\, US\, and the author of Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics (2010) and Rethinking Rape (2001). Her research interests lie in the intersection between feminist theory and philosophy of the body\, and she has published on topics such as miscarriage\, beautification and sexual assault. \nCHRISTINE HAMEL currently serves as head of the BFA Acting Program at Boston University School of Theatre where she is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting. She is a professional actor\, voice/dialect coach\, and director whose credits include work on Broadway\, off-Broadway\, and regional theatre. A Designated Linklater Voice Teacher certified in the Michael Chekhov acting technique\, she founded Femina Shakes\, an initiative committed to feminist interpretations of Shakespeare exploring a wide range of gender identities unconstrained by the limitations of conventional gender narratives. \nTONA BROWN Vocalist\, violinist\, entrepreneur\, and teacher Tona Brown has an international performance career throughout the United States\, Canada\, and Europe as a violinist and mezzo-soprano. Ms. Brown is also an advocate for transgender issues in the arts\, often speaking and performing at colleges and universities. She is the first transgender woman of color to perform the National Anthem for a sitting President at the LGBT Leadership Gala Dinner for former President Barack Obama at the Sheraton in NYC. She is also the first transgender woman to headline at Carnegie Hall in a program of African-American composers with an all-inclusive LGBT cast of performers. Ms. Brown graduated from the Governor’s School for the Arts\, a prestigious high school for gifted and talented students. She was formally educated at the Shenandoah University and Conservatory of Music\, studying violin performance with minors in viola\, piano\, and voice. For Shenandoah University’s 2021 production of “Suor Angelica”\, she recorded an opera movie\, playing the role of La Zia Principessa. Ms. Brown will be performing in a lead transgender role as Hannah After in the opera “As One” by Laura Kaminsky with the Lowell Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Orlando Cela in the fall of 2021. Ms. Brown was also asked to do a masterclass on Transgender Voices by the Virginia National Association of Teachers. She teaches private lessons to students with her company Aida Studios. \nAUDREY SMITH is a nonfiction writer and a producer for North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Oregon State University and a Master’s degree in Secondary English Language Arts Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Audrey is a producer of Embodied\, WUNC’s radio show and podcast about sex\, relationships\, and health\, and is a bookseller at Scuppernong Books. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/sounding-bodies/ LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA,Non-Fiction,Social Justice END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220325T210840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025353Z UID:8498-1653228000-1653231600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \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*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith KATHRYN SCHULZ and ALEXIS ORGERA. These two memoirs examine the pain of losing fathers\, but something else is found in the process of loss\, in the process of writing\, and in the process of thinking about loved ones. These are powerful looks at how vital an engagement with a difficult past becomes to a hopeful future. As a bonus\, moderator CASEY CEP has a prominent role in one book’s reengagement with life. \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• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith \nKATHYRN SCHULZ is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for “The Really Big One\,” an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Lost & Found grew out of “Losing Streak\,” which was originally published in The New Yorker and later anthologized in The Best American Essays. Her other essays and reporting have appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing\, The Best American Travel Writing\, and The Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio\, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. \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. \n\nCASEY CEP is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her first book\, Furious Hours: Murder\, Fraud\, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee\, was an instant New York Times bestseller\, and is available in paperback\, hardcover\, as an e-book\, and as an audiobook URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/lost-found-forgetting/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220325T205914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025404Z UID:8503-1653228000-1653231600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Immigration and Refugee Matters DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \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 Professor Diya Abdo\, a Palestinian woman whose grandmother once sought refuge in Jordan\, saw the need for a more inclusive approach to help refugees arriving in America. In 2015\, she started the Every Campus a Refuge program\, which has since spread to six other universities in the US\, providing free housing to refugees on campus\, language tutoring\, assistance with job searches\, and an army of volunteers\, many of whom are students in Guilford's ECAR minor. Photo taken April 5\, 2018.\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.* \nAs the world continues to displace people in astonishing numbers\, Abdo and Haqq bring the personal stories of individual lives effected by the continuing inhumane actions and responses to human suffering. With DIYA ABDO and ELISHEBA HAQQ. Hosted by DR. JOHN COX.  \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life \nDIYA ABDO is the first daughter and granddaughter of Palestinian refugees born in their country of displacement\, Jordan. A graduate of Yarmouk University\, she earned master’s and doctorate degrees from Drew University. She is a full professor in the English department of Guilford College\, where she founded the first chapter of Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR)\, which aims to host global refugees. Diya is the recipient of several national community engagement awards\, including the 2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prize for her work with ECAR. She lives in Greensboro\, NC\, with her partner\, daughters\, and cats. \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. \n\nDR. JOHN COX is a professor of Global Studies and History at UNC Charlotte\, where he directs the university’s genocide & human rights studies center. He has lectured and published widely on racism\, genocide\, human rights\, and resistance. \n  \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/immigration-and-refugee-matters/ LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220325T201655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025414Z UID:8415-1653224400-1653228000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Mysteries of Identity DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \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 \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 JOHN COPENHAVER\, VALERIE NIEMAN\, and NICOLE ZELNIKER. These three novels skirt the edges of the mystery genre while taking on various considerations of identity. Gender expectations\, LGBTQ concerns\, and coming-of-age self-awareness all complicate the usual terrain of the mystery field. Hosted by JACOB PAUL.  \nJOHN COPENHAVER‘s historical crime novel\, Dodging and Burning (Pegasus)\, won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and garnered Anthony\, Strand Critics\, Barry\, and Lambda Literary Award nominations. Copenhaver writes a crime fiction review column for Lambda Literary called “Blacklight\,” cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show\, and is the six-time recipient of Artist Fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He grew up in the mountains of southwestern Virginia and currently lives in Richmond\, VA\, with his husband\, artist Jeffery Paul. The Savage Kind (Pegasus) is his second novel. \n VALERIE NEIMEN‘s new novel\, In the Lonely Backwater\, a YA/crossover suspense novel in the Southern gothic tradition\, will be published by Regal House/Fitzroy Books in May 2022. To the Bones\, her genre-bending folk horror/thriller about coal country\, was a finalist for the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award\, joining three earlier novels\, a short fiction collection\, and three poetry collections. She has published widely in journals\, and has held state and NEA creative writing fellowships. A native of western New York\, Nieman was a journalist and farmer in West Virginia. She holds degrees from West Virginia University and Queens University of Charlotte and recently retired as a creative writing professor at NC A&T State University. \nNICOLE ZELNIKER (she/her) is a writer\, activist\, and managing editor at The Nasiona. She is the author of several books\, including “Letters I’ll Never Send” and “Until We Fall.” \nJACOB PAUL  is the author of two previous novels\, A Song of Ilan (Jaded Ibis\, 2015) and Sarah/Sara (Ig\, 2010)\, which Poets & Writers named one of 2010’s five best first fictions. His collaborations have led to the fine art books\, Home for an Hour (Otherwise\, 2014) and Feed Mayonnaise to Tuna (Otherwise\, 2016). His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Hunger Mountain\, Western Humanities Review\, Green Mountains Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Seneca Review\, Mountain Gazette and USA Today’s Weekend Magazine as well as on therumpus.net\, fictionwritersreview.com and numerocinqmagazine.com. He teaches creative writing at High Point University in North Carolina. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/mysteries-of-identity/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction,Mystery/Thriller END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220325T203111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025423Z UID:8485-1653222600-1653226200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Truth Tellers documentary presentation DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWhat defines a great American? For artist/activist Robert Shetterly\, it’s a citizen who courageously confronts issues of social\, environmental and economic fairness. Shetterly has painted 250 portraits of such Americans\, past and present\, with a quote inscribed into the dark background. These Americans Who Tell the Truth have been exhibited throughout the United States for almost two decades. Truth Tellers is both a story of Shetterly’s art and activism and a history lesson in what it means to be a citizen of a democracy. In bringing Shetterly’s message to a wide audience\, Truth Tellers will spark a national conversation on truth telling.  **The ICRCM requires all guests to wear face coverings. View policy under “Museum Protocols”.** 4/5/22 \nCompanion event: Images of Justice and Power with Malaika Adero\, St. Clair Detrick-Jules\, and Robert Shetterly \n\n\n \n  \nYou may also be interested in:\n• An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones\n \n  \n  \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/truth-tellers/ LOCATION:International Civil Rights Center & Museum\, 134 SElm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:Documentary,Social Justice END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220325T204351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112155Z UID:8714-1653220800-1653226200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:$ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen DESCRIPTION:As writers\, we’re used to pulling from our conscious experiences\, memories\, and knowledge to inspire and create our work. Our bodies and the subconscious are also wise and rich resources for inspiration and for instilling a sense of joy\, possibility\, and permission in the writing process. In this workshop\, we’ll use exercises focused on the five senses\, breathwork\, and theater-inspired movement to tap into the knowledge contained in our bodies and subconscious. You’ll walk away with new ways to bypass the internal critic\, play and experiment\, and find entry points for your writing\, whether you’re drafting a new piece or revising existing work. \n\n \n  \n  \nNICOLE LUNGERHAUSEN  writes fantasy and science fiction\, with a focus on stories that center hope and compassion\, woman-identified characters\, especially multi-generational narratives\,\nand non-romantic relationships. Nicole’s stories have been published by Abyss & Apex\, Apparition Lit\, Electric Spec\, and Luna Station Quarterly\, among others. Her writing was included in Abyss & Apex’s 2019 “Best\nof” anthology\, and received an honorable mention from Writers of the Future in 2020. Nicole’s latest work will be published by The Future Fire\, a magazine of socio-political\, feminist\, and queer sci fi and fantasy\, in June 2022.\nA professional actor for 10+ years\, Nicole takes a body-centered approach to writing\, using sensory exercises\, movement\, and breath and voice work as part of the creative process. As a coach\, she works with fiction and non-fiction writers to discover their voices and the stories they truly love to write\, and with non-profits to create and tell stories about their work and why it matters. Nicole holds dual B.A.s in Creative Writing and Theater from San Francisco State University. She currently does her living\, writing\, and teaching in Greensboro\, NC. \n  \nYou may also be interested in: \n• Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice\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• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/nicole-lungerhausen-wokshop/ LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220322T192856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025439Z UID:8490-1653220800-1653226200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Fred Chappell: I Am One of You Forever DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith and introduction from Ruth Dickey\, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. A viewing of the documentary film by Dr. Michael Frierson\, a filmmaker and professor of media studies at UNCG. The movie follows the life and literary accomplishments of Fred Chappell\, who is considered one of North Carolina’s most important writers. Chappell taught in UNCG’s creative writing program for more than 40 years and authored a dozen books of verse\, two story collections\, and eight novels. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation \n \n \nRUTH DICKEY  has spent 25 years working at the intersection of community building\, writing\, and art\, and is currently the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/fred-chappell/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:Documentary,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T123000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220325T202542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025451Z UID:8480-1653219000-1653222600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Images of Justice and Power DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \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 \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.* \nThree artists explore the representation of social justice activism and empowerment through photography and art\, documenting the changing face of the social justice landscape and celebrating the success of a movement. With MALAIKA ADERO\, ST. CLAIR DETRICK-JULES\, and ROBERT SHETTERLY. Hosted by RODNEY DAWSON. **The ICRCM requires all guests to wear face coverings. View policy under “Museum Protocols”.** 4/5/22 \nCompanion event: Truth Tellers documentary showing\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n• An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones\n• A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color \nMALAIKA ADERO\, author of Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the Whitehouse\, A Black Woman Did That: 43 Groundbreaking\, Bar-raising\, World-Changing Women\, and Up South\, is a writer\, editor\, literary agent\, and owner of Adero’s Literary Tribe\, LLC\, a book development company. She lives in New York City and Atlanta. \nST. CLAIR DETRICK-JULES\, author of My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood\, is an award-winning filmmaker\, photographer\, and Brown University graduate. She captures personal stories and intimate moments centering Black liberation\, immigrant justice\, and women’s rights. An Afro-Caribbean artist who remains rooted in her community\, St. Clair grounds her work in radical love\, joy and the knowledge that a more just world is possible. Her work has been featured in Allure Magazine\, The Washington Post\, Washingtonian Magazine\, Byrdie\, and BuzzFeed News\, among others. \nROBERT SHETTERLY is a self-taught artist living on the coast of Maine. Until 9-11 he was primarily a surrealist painter and printmaker. However\, deeply distressed about the propaganda leading up to the Iraq War in 2003\, he began a series of portraits he calls Americans Who Tell the Truth. There are now approximately 260 of them. They travel to schools \, colleges\, museums\, libraries and churches all over this country teaching the necessity of courageous citizenship to close the gap between our ideals and our actions. \n\nRODNEY DAWSON is the Curator of Education for the Greensboro History 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. He is responsible for a variety of the Museum’s virtual experiences\, including the Juneteenth celebration and a forthcoming Holocaust program. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/images-of-justice-and-power/ LOCATION:International Civil Rights Center & Museum\, 134 SElm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:Documentary,IBPOC Authors,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220201T203549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T122740Z UID:8141-1653159600-1653165000@greensborobound.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095656 CREATED:20220322T194208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T195223Z UID:8421-1653147000-1653150600@greensborobound.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095657 CREATED:20220322T193500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112159Z UID:8424-1653147000-1653150600@greensborobound.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095657 CREATED:20220309T194046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112200Z UID:8476-1653141600-1653148800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:$ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone DESCRIPTION:In this one-session workshop/lab\, writers will create a piece of creative writing prompted by a recent experience that may not at first seem dramatic. Writers will work to create a narrative voice that speaks directly to the reader. This voice layers time frames (I felt then\, I feel now)\, and makes something ordinary seem strange or something strange seem ordinary. We will consider alternatives to conventional plots. How does a text build suspense and dramatic tension without moving toward the resolution of conflict? The writers WG Sebald\, Chris Kraus\, Adrienne Kennedy\, David Shields\, Sarah Manguso\, John Haskell\, Édouard Levé\, and Richard Rodriguez come to mind as practitioners. We will discuss craft and form elements borrowed from music\, visual art\, and film: fugue structures\, bricolage\, collage\, jump cuts\, fades\, montage\, close-ups\, long shots\, and exploded moments. We will work with lists and blocks of text. \n \nLAURIE 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. \n  \nYou may also be interested in: \n• Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir\n• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/laurie-stone-workshop/ LOCATION:Tannenbaum-Sternberger Room\, Greensboro Public Library\, Central Branch\, 219 N Church Street\, Greensboro\, 27401 CATEGORIES:Adult,Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095657 CREATED:20220325T201131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T155404Z UID:8494-1653141600-1653145200@greensborobound.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095657 CREATED:20220322T195820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112202Z UID:8418-1653141600-1653145200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Afternoon Delight DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nSay goodbye to your mom’s harlequin bodice rippers\, romance has gotten a makeover! From sleek new cover designs you actually want on your shelf (so long\, busty corsets!) to rethinking what romance storytelling can mean\, the new romance has become one of the fast-expanding genres\, and with good reason. Romance authors are pushing the bounds of what’s possible\, experimenting with form and structure in ways that were once reserved for “literary” novels and widening the view of whose love stories get to be told. Everyone deserves to be the hero of a smutty romcom\, and that’s what this panel embodies: the new\, inclusive face of romance and the authors pushing the genre onto bold new ground. Join us for a rip-roarin’ good time with CHERIS HODGES\, TIMOTHY JANOVSKY\, and THIEN-KIM LAM. Hosted by SHANNON JONES. \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n\n \nAward winning author CHERIS HODGES was bitten by the writing bug at an early age and always knew she wanted to be a writer. She wrote her first romance novel\, Revelations\, after having a vivid dream about the characters. She hopped out of bed at 2 A.M. and started writing. A graduate of Johnson C. Smith University and a winner of the North Carolina Press Association’s community journalism award\, Cheris lives in Charlotte\, North Carolina\, where she is a freelance journalist. She loves hearing from her readers. Follow Cheris on Twitter @cherishodges\, friend her on Facebook at Cheris Hodges. \nTIMOTHY JANOVSKY  is a queer\, multidisciplinary storyteller from New Jersey. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Muhlenberg College and a self-appointed certificate in rom-com studies (accreditation pending). When he’s not daydreaming about young Hugh Grant\, he’s telling jokes\, playing characters\, and writing books. Never Been Kissed is his first novel. \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 \nSHANNON PURDY JONES is co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro\, NC. She holds a BS in Evolutionary Biology from Appalachian State University. Her reading life is a disaster zone of general fiction\, sci-fi\, romance\, queer studies and science nonfiction. As a bookseller she doesn’t believe in book shaming or book snobbery\, and wants everyone who walks into her shop to feel at home no matter what they’re reading. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/afternoon-delight/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction,Romance END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095657 CREATED:20220325T193053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T010507Z UID:8412-1653139800-1653143400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Everywhere We Belong DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nThree award-winning Black authors bring their unique voices to bear on what it means to be black and male in 21st Century America. Whether writing about unknown facets of the Civil War\, a father’s estranged relationship with his son\, or an average kid growing up in Chicago\, each offers keen insight on the struggles of the present and how the past comes to bear on that present. With DANIEL BLACK\, GABRIEL BUMP\, and DAVID WRIGHT FALADÉ.Hosted by GALE GREENLEE. \nDANIEL BLACK  is professor of African American Studies at Clark Atlanta University. A native of Kansas City\, Kansas\, yet spent the majority of his childhood years in Blackwell\, Arkansas. He is an associate professor at his alma mater\, Clark Atlanta University\, where he now aims to provide an example to young Americans of the importance of self-knowledge and communal commitment. He is the author of They Tell Me of a Home and The Sacred Place. \nGABRIEL BUMP grew up in South Shore\, Chicago. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times\, McSweeney’s\, The Best American Short Stories\, and elsewhere. His debut novel\, Everywhere You Don’t Belong\, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence\, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction\, the Heartland Booksellers Award for Fiction\, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award. Bump is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \nDAVID WRIGHT FALADÉ is a professor of English at the University of Illinois and a 2021-2022 Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. He is the co-author of the young adult novel Away Running and the nonfiction book Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers\, which was a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis-Dispatch Best Book of 2001. The recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award\, he has written for the New Yorker\, Village Voice\, Southern Review\, Newsday\, and more. \nGALE GREENLEE is a Greensboro native\, freelance editor and independent scholar of African American literature. She was a visiting assistant professor at Berea College and the inaugural ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow at The Ohio State University. She holds a doctorate in African American literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and her work focuses on Black and Latinx girlhoods and social justice in kids and young adult literature. She recently served as a fellow with the African American Policy Forum’s Black Girls Matter project and has a forthcoming essay in a College Literature’s special issue\, “Children\, Too\, Sing America.” As an aspiring children’s author\, she’s currently writing about Black children and green spaces. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/everywhere-we-belong/ LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:Historical Fiction,IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095657 CREATED:20220325T192207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112204Z UID:8409-1653138000-1653141600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH and ASHLEY LUMPKIN. \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation \nCRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH is the author of two poetry chapbooks\, Routes Home\, Finishing Line Press (2013) and Running Music\, Longleaf Press (2014). She is also the author of Wildflowers: Haiku\, Senryu\, and Haibun (2016). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including: Callaloo\, Nimrod\, Barrow Street\, Obsidian II: Literature in the African Diaspora\, African American Review\, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. She is an alumna of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Yale Summer Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Durham\, NC with her husband and two sons where she teaches English Composition and Creative Writing. She is the Managing Editor of Backbone Press. \nASHLEY LUMPKIN is a Georgia-raised\, Carolina-based writer\, editor\, actor\, and educator. She is the author of five poetry collections. A lover of performance as well as the written word\, she has been a competing member of the Bull City Slam Team since 2015 and currently serves as its assistant coach. She is one-fifth (and only Slytherin member) of the Big Dreams Collective and currently serves on the board of the North Carolina Poetry Society. Above all else\, Ashley considers herself a teacher\, poet\, and fryer of food. She is a lover of mathematics and language. She loves you too. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/publishing-for-people-of-color/ LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095657 CREATED:20220325T190905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112204Z UID:8403-1653134400-1653139800@greensborobound.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T095657 CREATED:20220325T191601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T155942Z UID:8406-1653134400-1653138000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Exploring a Future\, Changing the Past (Sci-fi/Fantasy) DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nScience Fiction and fantasy explore new worlds; some are light years away or hundreds of years in the future\, some are new perspectives on our shared past. They can be intimate stories of a single person or sprawling narratives of an entire culture. Three writers talk about what drew them to the genre and what continues to thrill them. With MONICA BYRNE\, T FROHOCK\,and CADWELL TURNBULL.Hosted by JL HERNDON. \nMONICA BYRNE is a novelist\, playwright\, and screenwriter who resides in North Carolina. Her first novel\, The Girl in the Road\, received the 2015 Otherwise Award\, and her second novel\, The Actual Star\, was published in September 2021. \nT FROHOCK has turned a love of history and dark fantasy into tales of deliciously creepy fiction. She is the author of Miserere: An Autumn Tale\, and the Los Nefilim series from Harper Voyager. Her works\, Where Oblivion Lives and Carved from Stone and Dream\, were both short-listed for the Manly Wade Wellman award in 2020 and 2021 respectively. A native North Carolinian\, T. has long been accused of telling stories\, which is a southern colloquialism for lying. \nCADWELL TURNBULL is the author of The Lesson and No Gods\, No Monsters. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge\, Lightspeed\, Nightmare\, Asimov’s Science Fiction and several anthologies\, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. His novel The Lesson was the winner of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category. The novel was also shortlisted for the VCU Cabell Award and longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award. His latest novel No Gods\, No Monsters was longlisted for the Pen Open Book Award. Turnbull lives in Raleigh and teaches at North Carolina State University. \n\nJL HERNDON (he/him) is an author of speculative fiction and poetry. All his characters are Black unless otherwise noted. A psychologist by training\, he is fascinated by people\, families\, and their relationships. His work appears in Star*Line Magazine\, Inkwell Black\, Visual Verse\, and Serotonin. Originally from Texas\, he now resides in Greensboro\, NC with his wife and dog. You can find him lurking on Twitter @jl_herndon. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/exploring-a-future/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction,Sci-fi/Fantasy END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR