Open Mics take place at Scuppernong Books. GSO NC.
Third Thursday of Every Month, except November. November’s Date is the 21st.
Sunday Gatherings are Themed Open Mics around a Subject
Please bring suitable material.
Sunday Gathering Hosts
Michael Gaspeny is the author of the novella in verse The Tyranny of Questions and the prose novel A Postcard from the Delta, as well as two chapbooks. He has won the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize and the O. Henry Festival Short Story Competition. For hospice service in Greensboro, North Carolina, he has received The Governor’s Award for Volunteer Excellence. A former reporter, he taught journalism and English for almost forty years, mainly at High Point University and Bennett College. He is married to the novelist and essayist Lee Zacharias. Their sons are Al and Max.
Ashley Lumpkin is a Georgia-raised, Carolina-based writer, editor, actor, and educator. She is the author of five poetry collections: {} At First Sight, Second Glance, Terrorism and Other Topics for Tea, #AshleyLumpkin, and Genesis. Her book “I Hate You All Equally.“, is a collection of conversations from her years as a classroom teacher. A lover of performance as well as the written word, she has been a competing member of the Bull City Slam Team since 2015 and currently serves as its coach. She is one-fifth (and only Slytherin member) of the Big Dreams Collective and currently serves as a member-at-large on the board of the North Carolina Poetry Society.
Deonna Kelli Sayed is a Greensboro-based writer and performer. In 2023, she premiered her debut solo show, American Body. Deonna’s essays and short stories are found in Love, Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women; Everywhere Stories Volume III: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, and more. Deonna is a grant writer for Triad Health Project and represents PEN America in the NC Piedmont.
Audrey Jennifer Smith is a writer, educator, and media producer based in Greensboro, NC. They hold a Master’s degree in Secondary English Language Arts Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Nonfiction Writing from Oregon State University. Audrey was the 2022 winner of the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize, and their nonfiction writing has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Nat. Brut and the North Carolina Literary Review, among others.
