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Past Events
2023
Friday, Feb. 9, 2023, at 6 pm | Reading and conversation with poet Emily Cinquemani at M. Judson Booksellers, Greenville, SC
Friday, Feb. 10, at 6 pm | Reading and Discussion of The Sum of Trifles at Hub City Bookshop, Spartanburg, SC
Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7 pm | “Submitting to Journals, Agents, and Publishers,” an online class hosted by Scuppernong Books, Greensboro, NC
Friday, July 14, at 6 pm | Conversation with Amy Rowland about her new novel, Inside the Wolf at Scuppernong Books, Greensboro, NC
Saturday, September 23, 2023 | Luther College Writer’s Festival, Decorah, Iowa
Friday, September 29, 2023 | Reading with poet Michael McFee, So & So Books, Raleigh, NC
2022
Thursday, January 6, 2022, at 6 pm | Conversation with Joanna Pearson – Malaprop’s, Asheville, NC – Online Event, go here to watch the video replay of our conversation
Thursday, January 27, 6 pm | Reading with poet Ross White — Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro, sponsored by the UNCG MFA Writing Program and the Weatherspoon.
Saturday, February 12 | “Look Closer: Writing the Familiar Object.” Online class through The Porch, Nashville, TN. Details and registration here.
Wednesday, February 16 from 6:30 to 8 pm | Conversation with writers Jill McCorkle and Jason Mott, Greensboro Public Library’s Book Lovers’ Social, Greensboro History Museum. In person and virtual.
Thursday, February 24, 8 pm EST | Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fourth Thursday Reading Series Online Event
Saturday, February 26, at 7 pm & Sunday, Feb. 27 at 3 pm | The 10th Annual Bookmarks Movable Feast and Parapalooza, Winston-Salem, NC. Tickets required. Details here.
Saturday, March 26, at 2 pm | Associated Writing Program (AWP) Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Book signing at University of Georgia Press booth 1004, Saturday, 3/26 at 2 pm.
Saturday, April 23 | “Look Closer: Writing About Objects” (all genres), a class for the North Carolina Writer’s Network Spring Conference, UNC Greensboro.
Sunday, May 1 | Writing the Senses at NC Museum of Art, a class for Redbud Writing Project.
Sunday, May 22, at 4 pm | Just Bring Yourself: A Conversation with Ann Hood and Julia Ridley Smith. Hosted by Molly Sentell Haile. A keynote event at the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival.
Mondays, Aug 15, 22, 29, from 6 pm to 8 pm CST (7 pm to 9 pm EST) | Online class for The Porch, Nashville, TN. “Managing the Rabbit Hole: Incorporating Research into Personal Nonfiction.” Three sessions. Info and registration here.
Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 6 pm | Conversation with writer and journalist Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson — The Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore, MD. This event will take place in person on the Ivy’s back patio. Register here.
Thursday, Sept. 8, at 6 pm CST (7 pm EST) | Birthing the Book: An Online Conversation with Siân Griffiths. We will be discussing Griffiths’ new book The Sum of Her Parts, which “explores how women’s body parts and the roles/parts that women play have been deployed toward political ends.” Hosted by The Porch, Nashville, TN. Registration is free here.
Saturday, September 24 at 10 am | Moderating “Ties That Bind,” a panel with novelists Jamie Ford, Sarah McCoy, and Rita Woods – Bookmarks Festival, Winston-Salem, NC. At Hanesbrands Theatre. Book signing to follow.
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2021
Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 7 pm | Book Launch – Scuppernong Books, Greensboro, NC
Tuesday, November 9 at 6 pm (Signing line starts 5:30) | Conversation with Jill McCorkle – Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC
Wednesday, November 10 at 5:30 pm | Reading – Weymouth Center, Southern Pines, NC
Wednesday, November 17 at 5:30 pm CT / 6:30 pm EST | “Birthing the Book” Conversation with Susannah Felts – The Porch, Nashville, TN – Online Event
Saturday, December 4 at 2 pm | Conversation with Sarah Grunder Ruiz – McIntyre’s Books, Fearrington Village, Pittsboro, NC