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MFA Writing Program at Greensboro Bound!

Posted on May 18, 2022

The annual Greensboro Bound Literary Festival is coming up this week, with another very full schedule of events.

A number of our faculty and alumni will be featured–to highlight a few exciting ones this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday:

An Evening with Amor Towles
May 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm | Free (**note this event is currently at capacity but you can still register for the online event)
Cone Ballroom, Elliot University Center Auditorium, UNCG
An evening with New York Times bestselling author AMOR TOWLES (The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, Rules of Civility), hosted by XHENET ALIU.

Hell of a State: North Carolina’s Literary Fire 
May 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm | Free
Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center (200 N Davie Street)
2021 National Book Award winner JASON MOTT  is joined by award-winning author and Greensboro’s own HOLLY GODDARD JONES. North Carolina Writers Network director ED SOUTHERN will moderate.

Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation 
May 21 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Free
Scuppernong Books (304 S Elm Street)
Poets CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT, and STUART DISCHELL offer witness, vulnerability, and fierce attention to the troubled and yet still exquisite times. Hosted by MICHAEL GASPENY.

Just Bring Yourself: A Conversation with Ann Hood and Julia Ridley Smith 
May 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Free
Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center (200 N Davie Street)
A conversation about the pleasures and challenges of writing memoir, with ANN HOOD and JULIA RIDLEY SMITH. Hosted by MOLLY SENTELL HAILE.