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Sep 17, 2024

Sep 17, 2024

8:00 PM

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The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Poetry professor Elizabeth Willis in celebration of the launch of her latest book, Liontaming in America. Elizabeth Willis' previous books of poetry include Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), which was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Address (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), recipient of the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Prize for Poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan University Press, 2006); Turneresque...

Sep 19, 2024

Sep 19, 2024

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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Join us for a reading with award-winning author of Bliss Montage and Severance, Ling Ma. Books will be available for purchase at this event.

Sep 19, 2024

7:00 PM

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UI Nonfiction Writing Program alum Tatiana Schlote-Bonne will read from her debut novel, Such Lovely Skin, at Prairie Lights Books on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. Her reading will be followed by a conversation with NWP alum Jessie Kraemer.

Sep 19, 2024

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Join us as Lucas Klein, translator and scholar of Chinese literature (Arizona State University) discusses Jazz and the Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry: Against Grammar-Translation and “Western Branch Orthodoxy.” He will be joined by Christi Merrill, translator and scholar of South Asian literature (University of Michigan), who will be speaking on Silence, Invisibility, Treachery: Rethinking the Metaphorics of Translation.

Sep 20, 2024

Sep 20, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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A conversation between three IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Writing with the Weight of the World," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. This event is supported by University of Iowa International Programs and the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization. Join us in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library, or watch live online via the ICPL YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/thelibrarychannel Lyuba Yakimchuk (poet, playwright, ...

Sep 20, 2024

7:00 PM

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The Nonfiction Writing Program is pleased to present a reading with Visiting Assistant Professor Nina Lohman, author of the essay collection The Body Alone and editor of the literary journal BRINK. Join us Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. at the UI Nonfiction Writing House (530 N. Clinton St.). The reading will be followed by conversation and a brief reception.

Sep 21, 2024

Sep 21, 2024

4:00 PM

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Iowa City poet Susan Aizenberg will read from A Walk With Frank O’Hara: Poems, published by the University of New Mexico Press Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, edited by Hilda Raz. "Susan Aizenberg is a poet with a wonderfully distinct voice — the poems in A Walk With Frank O'Hara have that difficult-to-achieve illusion of effortlessness I deeply admire, with no fussiness or straining for effect, but rather a clean elegance that allows Aizenberg's natural lyricism to shine. Aizenberg...

Sep 24, 2024

Sep 24, 2024

5:00 PM

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Join us at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St, Iowa City) for a reading by three IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers. Mélanie Werder-Avilés (playwright, theatremaker, scholar; Spain) is the author of the plays *Buena suerte, chica; Sharenting; Nutella Days; and Tiradísimo de Precio [Dirt-cheap]; among others. Her play La Protagonista won the Lope de Vega award. She has been selected as a resident playwright at the Spanish National Drama Centre and has been a member of the International Summ...

Sep 24, 2024

7:00 PM

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Jennifer Banks will read from her fascinating and thought-provoking book Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth. She will be joined in conversation by IWP Director Christopher Merrill. This special event has been co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Department of History, the International Writing Program, Digital Studio, and the Office of the Vice President for Research, and a grant from AHI. "Banks’s insights are nothing short of revelatory. Using Arendt’s co...

Sep 26, 2024

Sep 26, 2024

7:00 PM

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Writers' Workshop alum m.s. RedCherries will read from her stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity, mother. “This is an extraordinary debut by an innovative new voice in Native American literature. Throughout mother, m.s. RedCherries weaves a multigenerational and polyphonic narrative that spirals across time and space to explore themes of indigenous identity, adoption, residential schools, and reservations. While there is a profound sense of loss and trauma...

Sep 27, 2024

Sep 27, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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A conversation between four IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Why I Write," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. This event is supported by University of Iowa International Programs and the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization. Join us in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library, or watch live online via the ICPL YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/thelibrarychannel Sabyn Javeri (fiction and nonfiction writer, translator; Paki...

Sep 27, 2024

7:00 PM

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Writers’ Workshop graduate Afabwaje Kurian will read from her debut novel, Before the Mango Ripens. She will be joined in conversation by Claire Lombardo. “Before the Mango Ripens is a historical novel that avoids predictable oppositions. Its characters’ relationships and internal qualities are complex, its locals speak in indigenous Gbagyi, and its focus is realistic throughout. It depicts an array of individual viewpoints, desires, and motivations, spotlighting the challenges of political ...

Oct 2, 2024

Oct 2, 2024

4:00 PM

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The Truman Capote Award Ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Oct. 2 in the Old Capitol Senate Chambers. The event will feature remarks by the winner and is open to the public. To subscribe to a weekly emailing list of Writers' Workshop events, please fill in the linked form or email iww@uiowa.edu with “Events Mailing List Subscribe” in the subject line.

Oct 4, 2024

Oct 4, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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A conversation between four IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "In and out of Translation," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. This event is supported by University of Iowa International Programs and the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization. Join us in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library, or watch live online via the ICPL YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/thelibrarychannel Felipe Franco Munhoz (fiction writer, poet, pla...

Oct 4, 2024

7:00 PM

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Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Okwudili Nebeolisa & Jessica Laser will read from their poetry. Okwudili Nebeolisa will read from Terminal Maladies, selected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2023 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Prize.  “Nebeolisa’s debut, Terminal Maladies, introduces a poet so skillful and original that his book represents a vital moment in contemporary poetry. Centering around the loss of the poet’s mother, these poems match acute observation with abidin...

Oct 8, 2024

Oct 8, 2024

5:00 PM

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Join us at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St, Iowa City) for a reading by four IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers. Pervin Saket (poet, novelist, editor; India) is the author of the novel Urmila (2016), the poetry collection A Tinge of Turmeric (2009), and a series of 10 biographies in verse for children. She won the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize in 2021 and was awarded the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Fellowship the same year. Her most recent poetry manuscript was a finalist for the Ga...

Oct 10, 2024

Oct 10, 2024

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Join us for a reading and conversation with poet and translator Sawako Nakayasu (co-hosted with The Writers Workshop).

Oct 11, 2024

Oct 11, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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A conversation between four IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "The Writer’s Voice and the Reader’s Ear," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. This event is supported by University of Iowa International Programs and the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization. Join us in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library, or watch live online via the ICPL YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/thelibrarychannel Saad Z. Hossain (fiction writer; ...

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 18, 2024

Oct 18, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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A conversation between four IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Balancing Life as an Artist," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. This event is supported by University of Iowa International Programs and the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization. Join us in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library, or watch live online via the ICPL YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/thelibrarychannel Lisa Allen-Agostini (fiction writer, poet, ed...

Oct 19, 2024

Oct 19, 2024

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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Join author James Fitzmaurice in Shambaugh Auditorium in the Main Library for a conversation about his new young adult novel, Hobgoblin Gennel.  In this off-beat tale of adventure, teenagers Irie and Fred are fast friends. Irie, of Afro-Caribbean heritage, was born in Sheffield where they both live. Fred is an expat American transplanted from Yuma, Arizona, with a keen interest in Sheffield’s Anglo-Saxon era. While trapped in an underground passageway, they come across the kitchen of a food...

Oct 19, 2024

4:00 PM

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Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Hancher supports one singular guitarist appearing at two indispensable Iowa City festivals. Marc Ribot is going to have a busy day in Iowa City. First, he will perform his score for Yakov Protazanov’s pioneering sci-fi film Aelita: Queen of Mars as part of the ReFocus Film Festival. Then he will read from his book Unstrung: Rants & Stories of a Noise Guitarist as part of the Iowa City Book Festival. It’s a unique opportunity to experience Ribot’s multifaceted ...

Oct 25, 2024

Oct 25, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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A conversation between four IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Blurred Boundaries," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. This event is supported by University of Iowa International Programs and the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization. Join us in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library, or watch live online via the ICPL YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/thelibrarychannel Priya Hein (fiction and nonfiction writer; Mauritius) ...

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 7, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

5:00 PM

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Join us at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St, Iowa City) for a reading by three IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers. Smith Likongwe (playwright, poet, fiction and nonfiction writer, academic; Malawi) is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Malawi. He also serves as the president of the Association Internationale du Théâtre pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse (ASSITEJ) Malawi. His publications include Kamuzu Banda and Other Pays (2019), Living Playscripts: A Trilogy (2018)...

Nov 13, 2024

Nov 13, 2024

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Books will be for sale at the event. Refreshments provided. Lyz Lenz is a New York Times bestselling author, whose writing has appeared in The Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, and others. Her book God Land was published in 2019, through Indiana University Press. Her second book Belabored, was published in 2020 by Bold Type Books. Lyz’s essay “All the Angry Women” was also included in the anthology Not that Bad edited by Roxane Gay. Her third book, This Am...

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.