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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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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:20260213T180000
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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:20260206T180000
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250214T180000
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SUMMARY:Jenna Dorn and Nick Powell MFA Thesis Reading
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LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 South Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
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