Come ready to this reading series from Durham’s own Bull City Press for engaging poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from established and emerging writers.

August 9 at 7PM (book signing starts at 6:45PM): James Tadd Adcox with Eliza Benbow, Allison Kirkland, and Golden Age Comedy.

James Tadd Adcox’s work has appeared in Granta, n + 1, and 3:AM Magazine, among other places. He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Always Crashing, a magazine of fiction, poetry, and nameless things around and in-between, and is the author most recently of Denmark: Variations, a collection of sixty sets of instructions for variations on the play Hamlet.

Eliza Benbow is a recent graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill whose essays and articles have appeared in UNC Cellar Door, Our State Magazine, and INDY Week. Her most recent work — an essay collection about the Greensboro-based bookseller, poet, and publisher Alan Brilliant — was awarded the Marianne Gingher Award in Creative Nonfiction at UNC in 2025. Currently based in Greensboro, her writing traces creativity and memory throughout the South.

Allison Kirkland earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School and currently lives, writes, and teaches in Durham, NC. Her essays have appeared in Brevity, Pithead Chapel, Under the Gum Tree and elsewhere. Find her on Substack at allisonkirkland.substack.com.