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The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a fiction reading by UNCG Creative Writing faculty member Xhenet Aliu on Monday, March 24th at 5:00 PM at the UNCG Alumni House on College Avenue. The reading will celebrate the release of Aliu’s latest novel, Everybody Says It’s Everything. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing.XHENET ALIU’s novel, Brass, was awarded the biennial Townsend Prize in 2020, the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year First Novel Prize, was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, and was long-listed for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Book Prize. Numerous media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, Real Simple, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, named Brass a 2018 best book of the year. Previously, her debut story collection, Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Aliu’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Glimmer Train, Hobart, LitHub, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a fellowship from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, among other awards. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
For directions and more information about parking: https://idcapps.uncg.edu/access/access.html?id=Alumni House
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
UNCG Alumni, 404 College Ave,Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
