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Oct 7, 2024

Oct 7, 2024

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Professor Sarah Minor will deliver a craft talk on using visual art in creative writing. Refreshments will be served.

Oct 14, 2024

Oct 14, 2024

7:30 PM

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How do politics affect what poets or novelists write, and even how they write it? How does literature inform political discourse? What is cultural diplomacy, why is it so important, and what is the UI’s role in promoting it? For this inaugural event in the Obermann Center’s new Counterpoint public conversation series, Christopher Merrill — poet, nonfiction writer, translator, editor, and director of the UI’s renowned International Writing Program — and Loren Glass, a historian of creative w...

Oct 15, 2024

Oct 15, 2024

7:30 PM

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Sit in on a one-of-a-kind evening with writer and Iowa graduate Tracy Kidder, “a master of the nonfiction narrative” (Baltimore Sun), as he reflects on his lengthy literary career and reads from some of his bestselling work. The event will feature a conversation about the power of long-form investigative writing between Kidder and renowned author Stuart Dybek (73MFA), as well as a Q&A session and book signing. Register here: https://foriowa.info/3yUJ2h8 The author of nonfiction classics s...

Oct 31, 2024

Oct 31, 2024

7:00 PM

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The Nonfiction Writing Program is pleased to present a reading with alum Kristen Radtke, author of Seek You and Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor. Join us Thursday, Oct. 31 at 7 p.m. for a reading, followed by conversation and a reception. This reading is part of the Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction.

Nov 8, 2024

Nov 8, 2024

1:00 PM

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The Nonfiction Writing Program presents a Publishing Q&A event with Vanessa Haughton, editor at Alfred A. Knopf. Join us at the Nonfiction Writing House (530 N. Clinton St.) on Friday, Nov. 8 at 1 p.m. for the conversation, which is part of the Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction. This event is open to MFA students and undergraduate writers.

Feb 21, 2025

Feb 21, 2025

7:00 PM

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The Nonfiction Writing Program presents a reading with Dodie Bellamy, NWP Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor and author of numerous books including When the Sick Rule the World. Join us at the Nonfiction Writing House (530 N. Clinton St.) on Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. for the reading, which is part of the Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction.