Greensboro Bound

Afternoon Delight
2022-05-21 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
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Say 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.
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Award 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.
TIMOTHY 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.
THIEN-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
SHANNON 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.

The Truth about Disability: What We Don't Talk About
2022-05-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, 27401, United States
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Around 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.
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EMILY 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.
KAY 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.
JT 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.

$ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone
2022-05-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Tannenbaum-Sternberger Room, Greensboro Public Library, Central Branch, 219 N Church Street, Greensboro, 27401
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.

LAURIE 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.

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County of Terror: Alamance in the 19th Century
2022-05-21 15:30 - 16:30 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO, NC, 27401, United States
Jaki Shelton Green

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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.
ALEX 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.
JAKI 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.
BRIAN 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.

King of the Blues
2022-05-21 15:30 - 16:30 | Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, 27401, United States
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Greensboro 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.
DANIEL 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.
ATIBA 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.

A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones
2022-05-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Harrison Auditorium, NC A&T, 1009 Bluford Street, Greenbsoro, NC, 27401
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A 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.
The 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.
NIKOLE 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.
DR. 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
Southern 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
media 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.

Images of Justice and Power
2022-05-22 11:30 - 12:30 | International Civil Rights Center & Museum, 134 SElm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
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Three 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
Companion event: Truth Tellers documentary showing

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MALAIKA 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.
ST. 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.
ROBERT 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.

RODNEY 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.

Fred Chappell: I Am One of You Forever
2022-05-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
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With 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.
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RUTH 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.

$ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen
2022-05-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Scuppernong Books, 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
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.

NICOLE LUNGERHAUSEN writes fantasy and science fiction, with a focus on stories that center hope and compassion, woman-identified characters, especially multi-generational narratives,
and 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
of” 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.
A 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.

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Truth Tellers documentary presentation
2022-05-22 12:30 - 13:30 | International Civil Rights Center & Museum, 134 SElm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
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What 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
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Mysteries of Identity
2022-05-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, 27401, United States
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With 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.
JOHN 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.
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.
NICOLE 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.”
JACOB 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.

Immigration and Refugee Matters
2022-05-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO, NC, 27401, United States
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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.

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As 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.
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DIYA 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.
ELISHEBA 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.

DR. 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.

Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward
2022-05-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
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With 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.
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KATHYRN 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.
ALEXIS 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.

CASEY 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

Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice, and the Voice
2022-05-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Scuppernong Books, 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
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Sounding Bodies presents a powerful model of how the seemingly disparate disciplines of philosophy and voice/speech training can, in conversation with each other, generate illuminating insights about our vocal lives and identities. Utilising the 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.
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• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen
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• A Musical Thriller: Brendan Slocumb and Tona Brown in Conversation

ANN 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.
CHRISTINE 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.
TONA 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.
AUDREY 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.

Journalism and Activism
2022-05-22 14:30 - 15:30 | International Civil Rights Center & Museum, 134 SElm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
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Journalists and writers from different backgrounds discuss the importance of engaging equity, criminal justice, and community. The press, and citizen journalists, provide witness on systemic issues impacting local communities. A conversation with TESSIE CASTILLO, 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
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• Writing Toward Justice: Non-Fiction as a Call to Action
• An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones
• Images of Justice and Power
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TESSIE 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.
TARA 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.
LYNDEN 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.
JOE 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.

Sponsored by PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter

Eating & Drinking Together: How Food Shapes Culture
2022-05-22 14:30 - 15:30 | Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, 27401, United States
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JULIA SKINNER and MARCIE COHEN FERRIS are both food historians and they bring deep understanding of the role of food and drink in our past and in our present. Each author examines how culinary excellence, entrepreneurship, and the struggle for racial justice converge in shaping food equity. Hosted by TAL BELVINS
DR. 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.
MARCIE 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.
TAL BLEVINS is the owner of MACHETE, a James Beard-nominated restaurant in Greensboro, NC.

Just Bring Yourself: A Conversation with Ann Hood and Julia Ridley Smith
2022-05-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
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Join us for a conversation about the pleasures and challenges of writing memoir. When mining material from their own lives, how do writers decide what to include and what to let go? How much (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.

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• $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone
• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing
• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen
ANN 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.
JULIA 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.
MOLLY 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.

Beth Macy
2022-10-06 18:00 - 19:45 | Union Square Auditorium, 124 E Gate City Blvd, Greensboro, NC, 27406
Greensboro Bound presents BETH MACY, author of Raising Lazarus and Dopesick, in partnership with Cone Health and Scuppernong Books.

Due to limited seating rsvp is requested. Please note: **RSVPs over venue capacity will be placed on standby and you will be notified.**

Raising Lazarus is the crucial next installment in 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.
Available for purchase from our independent bookseller partner, Scuppernong Books.
BETH 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.

Simon & Schuster AuthorFest - JOHN IRVING & JASON REYNOLDS
2022-10-13 19:00 - 20:00 | ZOOM
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.

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Books can be purchased from our independent bookseller partner Scuppernong Books.

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.

John 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.

JASON 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
Prepare 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.

WHAT IS AUTHORFEST?
Each season Simon & Schuster partners with book festivals nationwide to present insightful panel discussions between celebrated authors.

WHO IS FEATURED?
The 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.

Soman Chainani at Scuppernong Books
2022-11-13 14:00 - 15:30 | Scuppernong Books, 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
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!
Join 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!

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SOMAN 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.
His 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.
A 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.
His latest novel, RISE OF THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD & EVIL, kickstarts a new series under his EverNever World brand. Follow Soman on Instagram @somanc

Cooks with Books: André Darlington Book Launch
2022-11-30 17:30 - 19:00 | Machete, 600 C Battleground Avenue, Greensboro, NC, 27401
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.

This 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.
This 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.
•Event ticket: $25/person
•Book: $28 (one book purchase required per couple)
•taxes & 22% gratuity will be added at check-out
Because alcoholic beverages will be served, this event is reserved for those 21 years of age and over.

ANDRÉ 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.
MACHETE 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.”

An Evening with Marlon James
2023-04-13 19:00 - 20:30 | NC
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.
Marlon 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.
Born 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
This 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.

Italy On a Plate, an afternoon with Susan Gravely
2023-05-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Well-Spring Retirement Community – Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre, 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro, NC, 27410
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.
SUSAN 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.
VIETRI 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

This event is sponsored by: Well-Spring Retirement Community and Vietri

2023 Greensboro Bound Literary Festival
2023-05-18 - 2023-05-20 | NC
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2nd Annual Downtown Greenway Community Picnic
2023-07-08 11:00 - 14:00 | Downtown Greenway, near the corner of MLK Jr Drive and Bragg Street
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!
Action Greensboro and Greensboro Parks and Recreation are excited to announce the 2nd Annual Downtown Greenway Community Picnic!
Join 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.
Enjoy 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.

This event has limited capacity – don’t delay, and purchase your tickets today!

$40 for adults
$20 for children 12 & under

This 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.
Questions? For more information, please contact Chelsea Phipps at chelsea.phipps(at)greensboro-nc.gov, or Dabney Sanders at dsanders(at)actiongreensboro.org

Jeanette Walls
2023-07-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Congregational Church of Christ, 400 W Radiance Drive, Greensboro
Scuppernong Books presents New York Times Bestselling author JEANNETTE WALLS.

HANG THE MOON
Sallie 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.
Nine 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.
You will fall in love with Sallie Kincaid, a feisty and fearless, terrified and damaged young woman who refuses to be corralled.

WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING
“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
“A propulsive read. Hang the Moon goes down easy… like the forbidden whisky that defines the life of Sallie Kincaid.” —Associated Press
“Jeannette Walls’s masterwork… a thrill ride through Prohibition and change in the American south… Glorious.” —The Washington Post

JEANNETTE 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.

A Booze & Vinyl Christmas, with André Darlington
2023-12-07 18:00 - 20:30 | Double Oaks Bed and Breakfast, 204 N Mendenhall Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
André Darlington is BACK with another not-to-be-missed event!
This time he’s in the holiday spirit as Greensboro Bound joins with the Greensboro Public Library to celebrate A Booze & Vinyl Christmas— Merry Music-and-Drink Pairings to Celebrate the Season!
André will once again be entertaining us with cocktail-making techniques, tips, and tricks as local musician Randy Condor Williams entertains us with holiday tunes perfectly paired with your spirituous libation of choice.
Ticket includes:

one holiday cocktail (additional drinks will be available for purchase)
light hors d’oeuvres
entertaining cocktail tips from André
all the merry-making you can handle!

Copies of A Booze & Vinyl Christmas will be available for purchase and André will even sign your copy!
This event is presented by Greensboro Bound as part of the Greensboro Public Library’s One City, One Book event offerings. Be sure to check out the full listing of events on the Library’s events calendar.
**This is event is 21 and up.**

Diane Flynt, Southern Apples Lost and Found: The People & Places Behind 300 Years of Apples in the South
2024-02-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Well-Spring Retirement Community – Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre, 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro, NC, 27410
Join Greensboro Bound, Well-Spring Retirement Community, and the Greensboro Public Library as we welcome DIANE FLYNT. A multiple-time James Beard Award finalist for Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional, Flynt founded Foggy Ridge Cider in 1997 after leaving her corporate career and produced cider until 2018. She now sells cider apples from the Foggy Ridge orchards in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. READ MORE ABOUT DIANE.
A light reception and book signing will follow the conversation with Diane.

This event is free and open to the public, however, a reservation is required.

This event is presented as part of the Greensboro Public Library’s One City, One Book event offerings. Every other year, the Greensboro Public Library, along with the Greensboro Public Library Foundation and a host of community partners, sponsors the One City, One Book community read. This year’s selection is The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food, a collection of essays exploring our heritage through food-related stories set in North Carolina, edited by the late Randall Kenan. The library is hosting a series of events and book discussions related to the One City, One Book read. Be sure to check out the full listing of events on their events calendar.

Joshua Bennett
2024-04-11 19:00 - 20:00 | McNair Hall Auditorium, 1601 E Market St, Greensboro
North Carolina A&T State University’s F.D. Bluford Library in partnership with Greensboro Bound is pleases to present author, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion JOSHUA BENNETT, Thursday, May 11 at 7:00PM in the McNair Hall Auditorium. This event is FREE and open to the public however, registration is required.
JOSHUA BENNETT is a Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT. He is the author of five books: Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf, 2023), which was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2023; The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022), which won the Paterson Poetry Prize, and is currently being adapted for television in collaboration with Warner Brothers Studios; Owed (Penguin, 2020), a finalist for the New England Book Award; Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), winner of the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize, and The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.
Dr. Bennett earned his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has recited his original works at the Sundance Film Festival, the NAACP Image Awards, and President Obama’s Evening of Poetry and Music at the White House. He has also performed and taught creative writing workshops at hundreds of middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States, as well as in the U.K. and South Africa.
For his creative writing and scholarship, Joshua has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Alongside his friend and colleague, Dr. Jesse McCarthy, he is the founding editor of Minor Notes, a Penguin Classics book series dedicated to minor poets within the black expressive tradition. Joshua is also the founding editor of Life Studies: an MIT Press imprint which celebrates the relationship between poetic practice and literary criticism. He lives in Massachusetts with his family. LEARN MORE
Spoken Word: A Cultural History
A fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion. In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for Barack and Michelle Obama, at the same White House “Poetry Jam” where Lin-Manuel Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work-in-progress that would soon revolutionize American theater. That meeting is but one among many in the trajectory of Bennett’s young life, as he rode the cresting wave of spoken word through the 2010s. In this book, he goes back to its roots, considering the Black Arts movement and the prominence of poetry and song in Black education; the origins of the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the Lower East Side living room of the visionary Miguel Algarín, who hosted verse gatherings with legendary figures like Ntozake Shange and Miguel Piñero; the rapid growth of the “slam” format that was pioneered at the Get Me High Lounge in Chicago; the perfect storm of spoken word’s rise during the explosion of social media; and Bennett’s own journey alongside his older sister, whose work to promote the form helped shape spaces online and elsewhere dedicated to literature and the pursuit of human freedom. A celebration of voices outside the dominant cultural narrative, who boldly embraced an array of styles and forms and redefined what—and whom—the mainstream would include, Bennett’s book illuminates the profound influence spoken word has had everywhere melodious words are heard, from Broadway to academia, from the podiums of political protest to cafés, schools, and rooms full of strangers all across the world.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
“A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” (The New Yorker) of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion.”
“Bennett…transport[s] us back to the city blocks, bars, cafes and stages these artists traversed and inhabited…an instructive text for young poets, artists or creative entrepreneurs trying to find a way to carve out a space for themselves…Shines with a refreshing dynamism.” —The New York Times

A Conversation with Joseph Crespino, author of ATTICUS FINCH, THE BIOGRAPHY
2024-05-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO, NC, 27401, United States
Join Greensboro Bound for a book talk with JOSEPH CRESPINO, author of Atticus Finch, The Biography: Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon.

Who was the real Atticus Finch? Prize-winning historian Joseph Crespino reveals the man behind the legend. In Atticus Finch, historian Joseph Crespino draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee’s father provided the central inspiration for each of her books.
This conversation will take place Tuesday, May 14 from 6:00-7:00PM at the Greensboro History Museum prior to the 7:30PM showing of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Tanger Center.

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