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The Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction: Reading by Shawn Wen, Winner of the 2018 Krause Essay Prize
Sep 27, 2018
07:30 PM
University of Iowa Pentacrest, Old Capitol Senate Chamber
1 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
Shawn Wen—a writer, radio producer, and multimedia artist—will be honored at the 2018 Krause Essay Prize award ceremony on Thursday, September 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Capitol Senate Chamber, where she will read from her winning essay, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause (Sarabande Books). There she will receive the Prize’s $10,000 award and an inscribed walnut letterbox handcrafted by a local Iowa artisan.
Made possible by the Kyle J. and Sharon Krause Family Foundation, and run by the Nonfiction Writing Program, the Krause Essay Prize is awarded annually to the work that best exemplifies the art of essaying, with emphasis on experimentation, exploration, and discovery over the dispensing of information.
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