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SUMMARY:Jenna Dorn and Nick Powell MFA Thesis Reading
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cas.uncg.edu/event/jenna-dorn-and-nick-powell-mfa-thesis-reading/#new_tab
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:MFA Thesis Readings
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Rose Bruce and Brianna Summey MFA Thesis Reading
DESCRIPTION:The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a poetry and fiction reading by Elizabeth Rose Bruce and Brianna Summey on Friday\, February 21st at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2025 Thesis Reading Series\, the event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH ROSE BRUCE is a poet\, creative nonfiction writer\, and UNC Greensboro MFA candidate from Chattanooga\, Tennessee whose work explores and queers the interior landscapes of identity\, spirituality\, mental health\, and human relationships\, across exterior landscapes of the American South. A finalist for the 2024 Dorianne Laux Prize for Poetry\, and a recipient of a 2024 Residency Fellowship at the Eliot Summer House\, Liz’s work has appeared in journals such as Arkana\, Susurrus\, and Global Poemic. Two of her poems will be featured in the anthology Objects in This Mirror\, forthcoming from Press 53 this Spring. A recipient of a 2024-2025 Anna Wooten Hawkins Graduate Award in Creative Writing\, Liz currently serves a poetry editor for The Greensboro Review. \n\n\n\nBRIANNA SUMMEY is a second-year MFA student in fiction UNC Greensboro. She is from Madisonville\, Tennessee\, and has a Bachelor’s in English with a minor in Creative Writing from Berea College. A recipient of a 2024-2025 Kathy Walker Phipps Graduate Award in Creative Writing\, Brianna currently serves as fiction editor for The Greensboro Review.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/elizabeth-rose-bruce-and-brianna-summey-mfa-thesis-reading/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:MFA Thesis Readings
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SUMMARY:Katie Naymon Alumni Fiction Reading
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URL:https://cas.uncg.edu/event/katie-naymon-alumni-fiction-reading/#new_tab
LOCATION:North Carolina
CATEGORIES:Alumni
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SUMMARY:Ananda Lima and Joy Priest Fiction and Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/ananda-lima-and-joy-priest-fiction-and-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:North Carolina
CATEGORIES:Fiction and Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Xhenet Aliu Faculty Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/xhenet-aliu-faculty-fiction-reading/#new_tab
LOCATION:UNCG Alumni House\, 404 College Avenue\, Greensboro\, North Carolina\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Reading
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SUMMARY:Travis Mulhauser Alumni Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cas.uncg.edu/event/travis-mulhauser-alumni-fiction-reading/
LOCATION:North Carolina
CATEGORIES:MFA Thesis Readings
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SUMMARY:UNCG Game Studies Conference 2025: Liminality in Gaming
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cas.uncg.edu/event/uncg-game-studies-conference-2025-liminality-in-gaming/#new_tab
LOCATION:North Carolina
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Terry Kennedy Faculty Poetry Reading
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URL:https://cas.uncg.edu/event/terry-kennedy-faculty-poetry-reading-2/#new_tab
LOCATION:North Carolina
CATEGORIES:Faculty Reading,Fiction and Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:So long\, not goodbye: a reading by Stuart Dischell
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/so-long-not-goodbye-a-reading-by-stuart-dischell/
LOCATION:North Carolina
CATEGORIES:Faculty Reading
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SUMMARY:Drop-in Advising
DESCRIPTION:If you need advising BEFORE classes begin\, come see us in MHRA 3407 this Friday\, August 15 or Monday\, August 18!
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/drop-in-advising/
LOCATION:MHRA Building\, 1111 Spring Garden St\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:Advising
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T120000
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SUMMARY:Drop-in Advising
DESCRIPTION:If you need advising BEFORE classes begin\, come see us in MHRA 3407 on Monday\, August 18 from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/drop-in-advising-2/
LOCATION:MHRA Building\, 1111 Spring Garden St\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:Advising
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250819T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250819T210000
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SUMMARY:Welcome Back Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join UNCG as we gather back to campus in style! This university-wide open mic poetry event is led by Josephus Thompson of the Poetry Cafe. \n\n\n\nCalling all poets\, musicians\, artists\, singers and rappers — the mic is waiting for you! Enjoy live music\, the open mic\, and more in the Elliott University Center Auditorium. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nSponsored by UNCG’s African American and African Diaspora Studies program\, the Department of English\, and the Lloyd International Honors College. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSee you there! 🎤
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/welcome-back-open-mic/
LOCATION:Elliott University Center\, 507 Stirling Street\, Greensboro\, North Carolina\, 27412\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250903T180000
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Words Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 6PM on Wednesday\, September 3rd\, at Borough Coffee\, 204 N. Mendenhall Street for our first Wednesday Words Open Mic Night of the Fall Semester. Featured readers will include Madds Black\,Drake Phillips\, Julia Tanzer\, Andreevitch Tew\, and more. Our featured readers will be followed by an open mic. Come and support your classmates and share some of your own work.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/wednesday-words-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Borough Coffee\, 204 N. Mendenhall Street\, Greensboro\, North Carolina
CATEGORIES:Fiction and Poetry Reading,Undergraduate Creative Writing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T180000
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SUMMARY:Stuart Dischell Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by Stuart Dischell on Thursday\, September 11th at 6 PM at Scuppernong Books\, 304 S. Elm Street. The event will celebrate release of Dischell’s latest chapbook\, LOVES DOMINION. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing. STUART DISCHELL was born in Atlantic City\, NJ. He is the author of Good Hope Road\, a National Poetry Series Selection\, Evenings & Avenues\, Dig Safe\, Backwards Days\, Children With Enemies\, and the The Lookout Man as well as the pamphlets Animate Earth and Touch Monkey and the chapbook Standing on Z. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic\, Agni\, The New Republic\, Slate\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and anthologies including Essential Poems\, Hammer and Blaze\, Pushcart Prize\, and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems. A recipient of awards from the NEA\, the North Carolina Arts Council\, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. For other thirty years\, he taught in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/stuart-dischell-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Writer Series,Fiction and Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T190000
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SUMMARY:Taneum Bambrick Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by Taneum Bambrick on Thursday\, September 18th at 6PM in Room 1215 of the MHRA Building on the UNCG Campus. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.T BAMBRICK (she/they) is the author of Intimacies\, Received (Copper Canyon Press\, Sept 2022) and Vantage\, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (APR 2019). Her chapbook\, Reservoir\, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. A graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program\, she is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize\, an  Environmental Writing Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Arts Center\, and the 2018 BOOTH Nonfiction Contest. Their essay\, “Sturgeon\,” was named a notable essay of 2019. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The Nation\, The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, PEN\, Narrative\, The Missouri Review\, 32 Poems\, West Branch\, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. A 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, she is a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. \n\n\n\nFor directions and information about parking\, visit: https://idcapps.uncg.edu/access/access.html?id=Moore%20Humanities%20(MHRA)
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/taneum-bambrick-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:MHRA Building\, 1111 Spring Garden St\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Writer Series,Fiction and Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T190000
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SUMMARY:Destiny Hemphill Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by Destiny Hemphill on Thursday\, September 25th at 6PM in Room 1215 of the MHRA Building on the UNCG Campus. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.  \n\n\n\nDESTINY HEMPHILL (she/her) is a ritual worker and poet based in Durham\, NC. A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program\, Callaloo\, Tin House\, and Kenyon’s Writers Workshop\, she is the author of motherworld: a devotional for the afterlife (Action Books\, 2023) and the poetry chapbook Oracle: a Cosmology (Honeysuckle Press\, 2018). \n\n\n\nFind directions and information about parking here.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/destiny-hemphill-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:MHRA Building\, 1111 Spring Garden St\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Writer Series,Fiction and Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251001T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251001T190000
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Words Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 6PM on Wednesday\, October 1st\, at Borough Coffee\, 204 N. Mendenhall Street for Wednesday Words Open Mic Night. Featured readers will include Zoe Morand\, Colin Turner\, and Jin Wei. This month’s host is Andreevich Tew. Our featured readers will be followed by an open mic. Come and support your classmates and share some of your own work.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/wednesday-words-open-mic/
LOCATION:Borough Coffee\, 204 N. Mendenhall Street\, Greensboro\, North Carolina
CATEGORIES:Fiction and Poetry Reading,Undergraduate Creative Writing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T190000
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SUMMARY:Jameela F. Dallis Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by Jameela F. Dallis on Thursday\, October 9th at 6 PM at Scuppernong Books\, 304 S. Elm Street. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.  \n\n\n\nJameela F. Dallis is a multidisciplinary writer\, curator\, art collector\, and scholar based in Durham\, NC. Jameela’s first full-length poetry collection is Encounters for the Living and the Dead\, forthcoming from River River Books in September 2025. She curated Material Encounters (Peel\, Carrboro\, March 2023) and juried Scaffold (Artspace\, Raleigh\, April 2023) and has served on regional curatorial and fellowship committees. Her publications include poems\, interviews\, arts journalism\, and literary scholarship in Casserole Series Journal\, Triangle Poetry Journal\, The Fight and the Fiddle\, Honey Literary\, Our State\, Walter\, Indy Week\, and elsewhere. She taught composition and literature university courses for a decade and has facilitated creative workshops—often poetry and art-centered—since 2009.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/jameela-f-dallis-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Writer Series,Fiction and Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T235112
CREATED:20250902T150938Z
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SUMMARY:Jen Julian & Mackenzie Kozak Alumni Homecoming Fiction & Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and the Class of 1949 will host a fiction and poetry reading by UNCG alums Jen Julian and Mackenzie Kozak on Thursday\, October 16th at 6PM in the UNCG Alumni House. A part of the Department of English’s homecoming celebration\, the event will be preceded by a reception. It is free and open to the public.JEN JULIAN is a writer from Eastern North Carolina. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Missouri\, Columbia\, and an MFA in Fiction from UNC Greensboro.  Her short story collection\, Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses\, was the winner of the Press 53 Fiction Prize and was published in 2018\, and her debut novel\, Red Rabbit Ghost\, is upcoming through Orbit/Redhook\, 2025. Recent work has appeared in Gulf Coast Magazine\, The Harvard Advocate\, swamp pink\, hex\, Bourbon Penn\, Third Coast Magazine\, Wigleaf\, and SmokeLong Quarterly\, among other places. She has won numerous awards\, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, Best Small Fictions\, and Best of the Net\, and had her work recognized as notable in The Best American Short Stories 2023. Jen is a 2016 Clarion alumna\, fond of fairy tales and spec-fic\, ambient music\, all the different varieties of moss\, and listening to you tell your ghost stories. She and her fluffy ginger cat currently live in the mountains of North Georgia\, where she teaches creative writing at Young Harris College and acts as fiction editor for storySouth. She is currently working on her third book\, a fantasy novel set in Appalachia.MACKENZIE KOZAK is the author of no swaddle (University of Iowa Press\, 2025)\, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the Iowa Poetry Prize. She holds a BA from Wake Forest University and an MFA from UNC-Greensboro\, where she served as poetry editor of The Greensboro Review. ​Mackenzie’s poetry appears in Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, DIAGRAM\, jubilat\, Missouri Review\, Sixth Finch\, and elsewhere. She is an associate editor at Orison Books and works as a therapist specializing in grief counseling.Find directions and information about parking here.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/jen-julian-mackenzie-kozak-alumni-homecoming-fiction-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:UNCG Alumni House\, 404 College Avenue\, Greensboro\, North Carolina\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Distinguished Writer Series,Fiction and Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T190000
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SUMMARY:James Daniels & Matt Poindexter Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Greensboro Review\, Bull City Press\, and Unicorn Press will host a poetry reading by James Daniels and Matt Poindexter on Thursday\, October 23rd at 6PM in Room 1215 of the MHRA Building on the UNCG Campus. The reading is free and open to the public and will celebrate the release of new collections by each author. \n\n\n\nA graduate of UNCG’s MFA Program in Creative Writing\, JAMES DANIELS // james solomon is a Black Southern poet\, pianist\, peacebuilder\, educator\, hip-hop artist\, and community arts organizer. He has 10+ years of experience teaching writing and hip-hop education at universities\, schools\, and community organizations\, as well as several publications with The Greensboro Review\, SoftSavagePress\, Stonecoast Review\, Cherry Tree Literary\, EcoTheo Review\, and Windhover Magazine.MATT POINDEXTER’s poems have appeared in the Best New Poets series\, The Missouri Review\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. A resident of Hillsborough\, North Carolina\, he can be found online at www.mattpoin.com. \n\n\n\nFor directions and information about parking\, visit: https://idcapps.uncg.edu/access/access.html?id=Moore%20Humanities%20(MHRA)
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/james-daniels-matt-poindexter-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:MHRA Building\, 1111 Spring Garden St\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Writer Series,Fiction and Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T235112
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SUMMARY:Barbara Presnell Alumni Nonfiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host an alumni nonfiction reading by Barbara Presnell on Thursday\, October 30th at 6 PM at Scuppernong Books\, 304 S. Elm Street. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.  \n\n\n\nA lifelong Southerner\, Barbara Presnell is the author of two award-winning poetry books\, essays\, and theatrical performances. Presnell is a senior lecturer emeritus in writing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s MFA in Creative Writing program\, she has received two NC Arts Council Fellowships and is a resident fellow at Willapa Bay AiR\, the Hambidge Center\, and the Wildacres Residency program. She lives in Lexington\, NC\, with her husband\, Bill Keesler\, and rescue pup\, Colby.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/barbara-presnell-alumni-nonfiction-reading/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Distinguished Writer Series,Fiction and Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T235112
CREATED:20251007T172241Z
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SUMMARY:Arrivals: A Reading by the 1st-year students in the MFA Writing Program at UNCG
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a fiction and poetry reading featuring the 1st-year students in the MFA Writing Program on Thursday\, December 4th at 7 PM at Greensboro Project Space\, 111 E. February One Place. The event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nFeatured readers will include Lis Alice\, Midhat Ansar\, Marc Chiurco\, Ryan Clancy\, Riley Gordon\, Kaitlin Harris\, Jasper Huegerich\, Sage Mohan\, Lauren Reitz\, and Alice Russell.  \n\n\n\nFor information about parking\, visit the Greensboro Project Space website.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/arrivals-a-reading-by-the-1st-year-students-in-the-mfa-writing-program-at-uncg/
LOCATION:Greensboro Project Space\, 111 E. February One Place\, Greensboro\, North Carolina\, 27403
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Writer Series,Fiction and Poetry Reading,Student Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T235112
CREATED:20251209T193019Z
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SUMMARY:Joshua Ambre & Veronica Schorr MFA Thesis Reading
DESCRIPTION:The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a fiction and poetry reading by Joshua Ambre and Veronica Schorr on Friday\, January 23rd at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2026 Thesis Reading Series\, the event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nJOSHUA AMBRE (he/him) is a writer from Phoenix\, Arizona. His fiction has appeared in Hypertext Review\, The Brooklyn Review\, Cleaver Magazine\, Fiction International\, and elsewhere. Joshua was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2024 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a finalist for the 2025 James Hurst Prize for Fiction. He is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. You can read more of his work at www.joshuaambre.com. \n\n\n\nVERONICA SCHORR is the author of Conscious Blue (Finishing Line Press\, 2021). Her writing appears or is forthcoming in the North Carolina Literary Review\, Bellingham Review\, Honey Literary\, and elsewhere. She is Poetry Editor at EcoTheo Review and an MFA candidate in Poetry at UNC Greensboro\, where she serves as Poetry Editor of The Greensboro Review.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/slow-burn-a-reading-by-uncg-mfa-candidates-in-fiction-poetry/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fiction and Poetry Reading,MFA Thesis Readings,Student Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T235112
CREATED:20251211T162740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T150405Z
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SUMMARY:Delaney Phelps & Shanley Poole MFA Thesis Reading
DESCRIPTION:The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a fiction and poetry reading by Delaney Phelps and Shanley Poole on Friday\, January 30th at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2026 Thesis Reading Series\, the event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nDELANEY PHELPS is a writer and teacher from North Carolina. Her work has appeared in The Talon Review\, Main Squeeze Magazine\, After Happy Hour Review\, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiction at UNC Greensboro. \n\n\n\nSHANLEY POOLE is an MFA candidate at UNC Greensboro. Their work is forthcoming or has been published in Analog\, F(r)iction\, The Common\, 14 Poems\, and Quarter(ly) Journal. She was a 2017 fellow at the Beargrass Writing Retreat\, a 2024 writer-in-residence at Azule Residency\, and former Storyteller at Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/delaney-phelps-shanley-poole-mfa-thesis-reading/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fiction and Poetry Reading,MFA Thesis Readings,Student Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T235112
CREATED:20251209T201414Z
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SUMMARY:Hailie Cochran & Esther Hung MFA Thesis reading
DESCRIPTION:The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a poetry & fiction reading by Hailie Cochran and Esther Hung on Friday\, February 6th at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2026 Thesis Reading Series\, the event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nHAILIE COCHRAN is an MFA candidate in poetry. They currently teach freshman composition in the Department of English at UNCG. \n\n\n\nESTHER HUNG is a second-year MFA candidate for Fiction at the University of North Carolina\, Greensboro. Her work has appeared in The Underground Journal and Blue Mountain Arts\, and she is the recipient of the 2024 James Hurst Prize for Fiction.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/hailie-cochran-esther-hung-mfa-thesis-reading/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fiction and Poetry Reading,MFA Thesis Readings,Student Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T235112
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SUMMARY:Catherine Sawyers & Sage Short MFA Thesis Reading
DESCRIPTION:The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a fiction and poetry reading by Catherine Sawyers and Sage Short on Friday\, February 13th at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2026 Thesis Reading Series\, the event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nCATHERINE SAWYERS (she/her) is a MFA student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, concentrating in Fiction. She examines dysfunctional families\, small town sceneries\, and gossip within Southern\, Black communities in her writing and is currently exploring how these themes can present themselves in speculative settings. Catherine’s fiction has appeared in Carolina Muse. \n\n\n\nSAGE SHORT is a poet from South Carolina. She is currently an MFA Candidate at UNC Greensboro where she serves as a Poetry Editor for The Greensboro Review.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/catherine-sawyers-sage-short-mfa-thesis-reading/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fiction and Poetry Reading,MFA Thesis Readings,Student Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T190000
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SUMMARY:Chad Knuth & Louise Scoville MFA Thesis Reading
DESCRIPTION:The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a poetry and fiction reading by Chad Knuth and Louise Scoville on Friday\, February 20th at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2026 Thesis Reading Series\, the event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nCHAD KNUTH (he/him) is a poet and arts organizer. He currently serves as the VP of Programming for the North Carolina Poetry Society\, and as a Poets Council Member for the Town of Carrboro\, NC. His work has been anthologized in The Nature of Our Times (Paloma Press\, 2025) and Kakalak (Moonshine Review Press\, 2025)\, and is featured in Ponder Review\, The Crawfish\, and Digest Magazine\, amongst others. He is an MFA candidate at UNC-Greensboro\, and is the Managing Editor at The Greensboro Review. You can find him at chadknuth.com \n\n\n\nLOUISE SCOVILLE is from Ann Arbor\, Michigan. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction at UNC Greensboro.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/chad-knuth-louise-scoville-mfa-thesis-reading/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fiction and Poetry Reading,MFA Thesis Readings,Student Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T235112
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SUMMARY:Gabrielle Calvocoressi poetry reading
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by Gabrielle Calvocoressi on Thursday\, March 19th at 6 PM at Scuppernong Books\, 304 S. Elm Street. The event is free and open to the public and will by a community potluck dinner. Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s new collection of poetry\, The New Economy\, was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. Other collections include The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\, Apocalyptic Swing\, and Rocket Fantastic\, which is the winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. They serve on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets and live in Old East Durham\, NC\, where joy\, compassion\, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. 
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/gabrielle-calvocoressi-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Writer Series,Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T235112
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SUMMARY:Diamond Forde and Stephanie Powell Watts: poetry and fiction reading
DESCRIPTION:The Class of 1952 and the Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a poetry and fiction reading by Diamond Forde and Stephanie Powell Watts on Thursday\, April 2nd at 6:00 PM in UNCG Alumni House. The reading is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a reception and book signing. \n\n\n\nDIAMOND FORDE is the author of two poetry collections\, Mother Body\, a Kate Tufts Discovery award nominee\, and The Book of Alice\, winner of the Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award. She has received a doctorate in Creative Writing at Florida State University\, with a specialization in both African American poetics and fat studies\, and an MFA in Creative Writing at The University of Alabama. Forde has received recognition in the Furious Flower Poetry Prize\, nomination as a Kate Tufts Discovery award finalist\, and has earned a Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellowship. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine\, Obsidian\, Callaloo\, and elsewhere. Forde serves as the Interviews Editor for Honey Literary\, as an assistant professor at North Carolina University. \n\n\n\nSTEPHANIE POWELL WATTS won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her debut story collection\, We Are Taking Only What We Need (2012)\, also named one of 2013’s Best Summer Reads by O: The Oprah Magazine. Her short fiction has been included in two volumes of the Best New Stories from the South anthology and honored with a Pushcart Prize. Ms. Powell Watts’s stories explore the lives of African Americans in fast food and factory jobs\, working door to door as Jehovah’s Witness ministers\, and pressing against the boundaries of the small town\, post-integration South. Her debut novel\, No One Is Coming to Save Us\, follows the return of a successful native son to his home in North Carolina and his attempt to join the only family he ever wanted but never had. As Ms. Powell Watts describes it\, “Imagine The Great Gatsby set in rural North Carolina\, nine decades later\, with desperate black people.” Born in the foothills of North Carolina\, with a PhD from the University of Missouri and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte\, she now lives with her husband and son in Pennsylvania where she is an associate professor at Lehigh University.
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/diamond-forde-stephanie-powell-watts-poetry-and-fiction-reading/
LOCATION:UNCG Alumni House\, 404 College Avenue\, Greensboro\, North Carolina\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Writer Series,Fiction and Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T121500
DTSTAMP:20260418T235112
CREATED:20260325T185722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T143257Z
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SUMMARY:UNCG Wellness Takeover Day
DESCRIPTION:As part of UNCG Wellness Takeover Day\, students are invited to engage in activities designed to help you reset and connect with what helps you feel your best.  \n\n\n\nJoin us in MHRA 3501 as we enjoy prompts from professors and receive a free journal as you experience the deep connections among reading\, writing\, and wellbeing. \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n\n9:00 a.m. Tony Cuda\n\n\n\n9:30 a.m. Jen Feather\n\n\n\n10:00 a.m. Joe Dunne\n\n\n\n10:30 a.m. Derek Palacio\n\n\n\n11:00 a.m. Jessie Van Rheenen\n\n\n\n11:30 a.m. Xhenet Aliu\n\n\n\n12:00 a.m. Heather Adams\n\n\n\n\nFor disability acommodations\, please contact english@uncg.edu
URL:https://english.uncg.edu/event/uncg-wellness-takeover-day/
LOCATION:MHRA Building\, 1111 Spring Garden St\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
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