2025
NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS: A READING OF FICTION & POETRY
FRIDAY // JANUARY 31 // 6:00PM // SCUPPERNONG BOOKS
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a fiction and poetry reading by Jennifer Champagne and Rachael Hershon on Friday, January 31st 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.
JENNNIFER CHAMPAGNE (she/her) is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She holds degrees from Mercer University and Wake Forest University, where she was also the Graduate Fellow for Fiction Collective 2. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Susurrus, A Literary Arts Magazine of the American South and an Associate Editor at Bull City Press. She currently serves as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of English.
RACHAEL HERSHON grew up just outside of Boston, MA, and studied English, Creative Writing, and Teaching at Brandeis University. She is now an MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she teaches writing and literature. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the South Carolina Review, Boulevard, and Empty House Press, among others.
2024
NC WRITERS’ NETWORK 2024 CONFERENCE // SLUSH PILE LIVE!
SATURDAY // NOVEMBER 2 // 4:45 – 5:45PM // UNC - GREENSBORO
The annual Slush Pile Live! will offer both poetry and prose in two rooms so that more attendees have a chance to receive feedback on their writing. Have you ever wondered what goes through an editor’s mind as he or she reads through a stack of unsolicited submissions? Here’s your chance to find out.
Beginning at 3:30 pm, attendees may drop off either 300 words of prose or one page of poetry. The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript, but the title and the genre should.
Then, at 4:45 pm, a panel of editors will listen to the submissions being read out loud and raise their hand when they hear something that would make them stop reading if the piece were being submitted to their publication. The editors will discuss what they did and did not like about the sample, offering constructive feedback on the manuscript itself and the submission process. All anonymous—all live! (Authors can reveal themselves at the end, but only if they want to.)
2023
ARRIVALS: A FICTION & POETRY READING BY FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS IN THE MFA WRITING PROGRAM @ UNC - GREENSBORO
THURSDAY // NOVEMBER 30 // 6:00PM // GREENSBORO PROJECT SPACE
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a fiction & poetry reading by the 1st-year students on Thursday, November 30th at 6:00 PM at the Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place. The event is free and open to the public.
Featured readers will include Liz Bruce, Jennifer Champagne, Jenna Dorn, Eliana Franklin, John Haugh, Rachael Hershon, Elise LeSage, Margarite Nathe, Nick Powell, and Bri Summey.