Greensboro Bound: A Literary Festival is this coming weekend, and many UNC Greensboro faculty and alumni are participating alongside community members and visiting writers. Check out UNCG participants in the event listings below. View the Greensboro Bound website for the complete schedule.
Thursday, May 17
Introduction by Fred Chappell (Creative Writing) with a reading by Brett Ingram ’95
6 p.m. reception; 6:45 p.m. opening remarks, Weatherspoon Art Museum
Friday, May 19
Lorena Guillén (Music) and Alejandro Rutty (Music) with the Difficulties with Mark Engebretson (Music)
8:30 p.m., Friday, May 18, Scuppernong Books
Saturday, May 18
A Conversation with Lee Smith and Michael Parker (Creative Writing)
10 a.m., Greensboro Cultural Arts Center, Van Dyke Performance Space
Unicorn Press Panel including Mark Smith-Soto (Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
10 a.m., Greensboro Central Library, Nussbaum Room
Bull City Press Panel including Emilia Phillips (Creative Writing)
11:15 a.m., Greensboro Central Library, Nussbaum Room
Greensboro Opera: 15-minute opera for middle schoolers, directed by David Holley (Music) with music by Mark Engebretson (Music)
1 p.m., Greensboro Cultural Arts Center, Van Dyke Performance Space
Jabberbox Puppets with Marianne Ginger ’74 MFA and Deborah Seabrook ’75 MFA
2 p.m., Greensboro Cultural Arts Center: Hyers Theater
*For mature audiences
Contemporary Muslim Writing Beyond Politics: A Conversation including Dr. Omar H. Ali (Honors College, African American & African Diaspora Studies)
3:15, Cultural Arts Center, Hyers Theater
“On Grief and Love,” a Conversation about “The Bright Hour,” by Nina Riggs 04’ MFA, introduced by Provost Dana Dunn
4:30 p.m., Greensboro Cultural Arts Center, Van Dyke Performance Space
Short Story Panel including Steve Cushman ’02 MFA
4:30 p.m., Greensboro History Museum, Mary Norris Preyer Hall
The Music of John Prine and the Blues, with Dr. Emily Edwards (Media Studies)
9:30 p.m. Greensboro Project Space
Sunday, May 20
Novel Panel moderated by Holly Goddard-Jones (Creative Writing) including Jim Minick ’15 MFA
2:15 p.m., Greensboro Central Library, Nussbaum Room
UNCG M.F.A. Panel moderated by Terry Kennedy ’99 MFA (Creative Writing) with Heidi Czerwiec’95 MFA, Kerry French ’06 MFA, Sarah Rose Nordgren ’07 MFA
2:15 p.m., Triad Stage Upstage Cabaret
Feminist Panel moderated by Dr. Jennifer Feather (English)
2:15, Greensboro Cultural Arts Center, Van Dyke Performance Space
Poetry Panel including Lauren Moseley ’08 MFA
3:30 p.m., Triad Stage Upstage Cabaret
