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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.

Feb 27, 2025

Feb 27, 2025

7:30 PM

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The University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program is pleased to announce that writers Grace Glass and Sasha Tycko have won the 2024 Krause Essay Prize for their essay “Not One Tree,” which appeared in n+1. Sasha and Grace will be honored at the Krause Essay Prize award ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Iowa Old Capitol Senate Chambers, where they will present their winning essay. There they will receive the Prize’s $10,000 award and each will receive an inscri...

Mar 3, 2025

Mar 3, 2025

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

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Criticism Today presents Professor Larry Scanlon (Rutgers University) as he explores the power and relevance of medieval realism in literature. Drawing on ideas from theorists like Roland Barthes and Marxist thinkers Fredric Jameson and Anna Kornbluh, Scanlon will discuss how late medieval texts — especially the poem Cleanness and its retelling of the Sodom story — offer fresh insights into realism and culture.

Mar 12, 2025

Mar 12, 2025

7:00 PM

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Laura Julier, alum of the Nonfiction Writing Program will read from her new book Off Izaak Walton Road (University of New Mexico Press) at Prairie Lights Books on Wednesday, March 12 at 7 p.m. Laura Julier’s (PhD 1988) book, Off Izaak Walton Road, won this year’s River Teeth Nonfiction Book Award, judged by writer Lacy M. Johnson, and will be published by the University of New Mexico Press in March 2025.

Mar 26, 2025

Mar 26, 2025

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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English Department VIEWS presents: Jonathan Lethem. Jonathan Lethem’s genre-defying fiction weaves the conventions of noirs, westerns, science fiction, and graphic novels into something both evocative and wholly original. The “bard of Brooklyn” (LitHub) is the author of more than a dozen books — including the much-lauded novels Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude — and the winner of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. Books will be available for purchase. 

Apr 2, 2025

Apr 2, 2025

4:00 PM

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Literary Agent William Callahan will be giving a Publishing Q&A at the Nonfiction Writing House on Wednesday, April 2 at 4 p.m. William Callahan is an Inkwell Management agent and editor based in New York City. He is responsible for representing and managing the careers of a diverse roster of authors and literary talents. Prior to his current role, Callahan received his degree from the University of Iowa, where he honed his skills and passion for the publishing industry. Join us at the Nonf...

Apr 5, 2025

Apr 5, 2025

3:00 PM

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Torrey Peters, alum of the Nonfiction Writing Program will read from her new book Stag Dance at Prairie Lights Books on Saturday, April 5 at 3 p.m. Reception to follow: Nonfiction Writing House - 530 N. Clinton St., Iowa City Torrey Peters, NWP 2009, will publish Stag Dance: A Novel and Stories, with Penguin Random House in March 2025.