ADVANCE TICKETS NOW CLOSED. Walk-up tickets will be available at the door!
Tickets $20
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Story Parlor | 227 Haywood Road
Parking & Policies
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available for purchase. All shows, unless specified, are ages 16+.
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Juniper Bends, a quarterly reading series curated by Locke Hunter and Alli Marshall, features poetry, prose, and music from established and emerging writers and artists.
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Jennifer McGaha is the author of three works of creative nonfiction including The Joy Document, a collection of fifty essays celebrating midlife (coming November 19!), Flat Broke with Two Goats, a 2018 OverDrive Big Library Read, and Bushwhacking: How to Get Lost in the Woods and Write Your Way Out, a Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award finalist. Her nonfiction and creative nonfiction work has also appeared in many magazines and literary journals including Image, The Huffington Post, The New Pioneer, Lumina, PANK, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Brevity, Bitter Southerner, Crab Creek Review, River Teeth, and others. An experienced workshop facilitator and writing coach, Jennifer has led workshops through Hugo House, Flatiron Writers Room, the North Carolina Arboretum, Story and Song Center for Arts and Culture, the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site, Kanuga Conference Center, the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC-Asheville, and many other places. She has also served as a featured reader, speaker, and moderator for literary events at public libraries, bookstores, writing programs, and other venues across the country. For speaking engagements, she is represented by the All American Speakers Bureau. An Appalachian native, Jennifer lives in a wooded North Carolina hollow with her husband, two cats, four unruly dogs, nine relatively tame dairy goats, and an ever-changing number of chickens.
About Juniper Bends | Launched in 2009, Juniper Bends ran for 10 years before taking a two-year hiatus during the pandemic. Juniper nurtures the voices of new writers while providing a space for local established writers to showcase their work.