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Oct 5, 2023

Oct 5, 2023

7:00 PM

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Seventeen writers from the International Writing Program’s 2023 Fall Residency provided short works in various forms, all of which were then adapted for the stage. See the fruits of this annual collaboration on Thursday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Alan MacVey theatre in the University of Iowa Theatre Building. Cast: Adrian Enzastiga, Will Goblirsch, Krista Neumann, Dajzane Meadows-Sanderlin, Laurel Preston, Delaney Waterman, and Noa Zapin Stage Manager: Chloe Ancell Assistant Director: Madel...

Oct 6, 2023

Oct 6, 2023

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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A conversation between four IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Style in the Hard Light of Algorithm," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. 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 Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (poet, translator, essayist, editor; Japan) is the author of more than 15 poetry collections, including Starboard of My Wife (translated i...

Oct 6, 2023

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Join us in person at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St, Iowa City) or online via Facebook or Zoom (bit.ly/shse_live23) for a reading by two IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers. For those who are present in person, light refreshments will be provided. Azhar Noonari (fiction writer, translator; Pakistan) made his debut in 2016 with the novel [Black Bird in a White Cage] in 2016; in 2019, his story ["The Stranger"] won the Naseem Kharl Short Story Prize. His many translations between English ...

Oct 8, 2023

Oct 8, 2023

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Join us for the International Writing Program's Prairie Lights Reading Series this Sunday to hear readings by two 2023 Fall Residency writers and one University of Iowa MFA student. Orit Gidali (poet, children’s book author, editor; Israel) is the author, most recently, of the poetry volume [The Towers] (2021); Twenty Girls to Envy Me, a Hebrew-English edition of her collected poems, was longlisted for the 2017 PEN America Literary Award. Her poetry has been widely translated. She also writ...

Oct 13, 2023

Oct 13, 2023

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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A conversation between three IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "On the Body," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. 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 Busisiwe Mahlangu (poet, playwright, fiction writer; South Africa) is the author of Surviving Loss, a 2018 poetry collection also adapted for theater. She was awarded the inaugural ...

Oct 13, 2023

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Join us in person at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St, Iowa City) or online via Facebook or Zoom (bit.ly/shse_live23) for a reading by one IWP 2023 Fall Residency writer and one special guest author. For those who are present in person, light refreshments will be provided. Noelle Q. de Jesus (fiction, editor, translator; Singapore) is the author of the collections Cursed and Other Stories (2019) and Blood Collected Stories (2015), which won a 2016 Next Gen Indie Book Award and was tra...

Oct 15, 2023

Oct 15, 2023

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Join us for the International Writing Program's Prairie Lights Reading Series this Sunday to hear readings by two 2023 Fall Residency writers and one University of Iowa MFA student. Iya Kiva (poet, translator, journalist; Ukraine) is the author of poetry volumes [Farther from Heaven] (2018) and [The First Page of Winter] (2019), as well as of a 2021 book of interviews with Belarusian writers. Her poems have been translated into more than 30 languages and awarded nationally and international...

Oct 20, 2023

Oct 20, 2023

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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A conversation between three IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Must a Migrant Be Grateful?," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. 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 Brenda Navarro (fiction writer, editor; Spain/Mexico) is the author of the novels Casas Vacías, published in English as Empty Houses (2021), which won Spain’s Tigre ...

Oct 20, 2023

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Join us in person at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St, Iowa City) or online via Facebook or Zoom (bit.ly/shse_live23) for a reading by two IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers. For those who are present in person, light refreshments will be provided. Nektaria Anastasiadou (fiction writer; Turkey/Greece) is the author of the English-language novel A Recipe for Daphne, shortlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award and long-listed for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award, and [Beneath the Feet of Eternal...

Oct 26, 2023

Oct 26, 2023

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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Please join us for an interdisciplinary conversation at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art featuring three UI community-engaged scholars who have recently published co-authored, collaborative works. A Q&A will follow the remarks. Thursday, Oct. 26 2023 4:30 – 6 p.m. Stanley Museum of Art, 160 W. Burlington St. RSVP Mary Cohen, associate professor of music education, Music Making in U.S. Prisons (co-authored by Stuart P. Duncan). Samantha Zuhlke, assistant professor in the S...

Oct 27, 2023

Oct 27, 2023

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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A conversation between four IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Writing Love in the Age of Irony," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. 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 Wong Yi Eva (fiction writer, essayist, librettist, editor; Hong Kong) is the author of short stories collections [Ways To Love In A Crowded City], [The Four Seas...

Oct 29, 2023

Oct 29, 2023

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Join us for the International Writing Program's Prairie Lights Reading Series this Sunday to hear readings by two 2023 Fall Residency writers and one University of Iowa MFA student. Artur Domosɫawski (non-fiction, journalist; Poland) has among his titles Gorączka latynoamerykańska  [Latin American Fever], Śmierć w Amazonii [Death in the Amazonas], the essay collection Wykluczeni [The Outcasts] and two biographies: Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life, for which he was voted “Journalist of the Year” ...

Nov 3, 2023

Nov 3, 2023

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Join us in person at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St, Iowa City) or online via Facebook or Zoom (bit.ly/shse_live23) for a reading by two IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers. For those who are present in person, light refreshments will be provided. Martha Cecilia Ruiz (nonfiction; fiction; editor; arts promotor; Nicaragua) has for the past three decades worked as a reporter, scriptwriter, and a host of radio and TV programs. The organization she founded, Proyecto365MCR, promotes Nicaragu...