The newest reading series from Bull City Press brings you poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from established and emerging writers for free on the fourth Saturday each month.

This month featuring:

A native of Asheville, Michael McFee has taught in the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1990. He is the author of twelve books of poetry—including six published by Carnegie Mellon University Press: A Long Time to Be Gone, We Were Once Here, That Was Oasis, Shinemaster, Earthly, and Colander—and two collections of essays, Appointed Rounds: Essays (Mercer University Press) and The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview (University of Tennessee Press). He has received the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award from the Western North Carolina Historical Association.

Kieran Murphy (he/they) is a poet, actor, comedian & video game environment artist from Mebane, North Carolina and a rising senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Nicole Stockburger is the author of Nowhere Beulah (Unicorn Press, 2019). Her poetry has been published in Southern Humanities Review, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Nicole received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and BA in Studio Art and English from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied darkroom photography. Her work has been supported by the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences and the North Carolina Arts Council.