Iowa Writers’ Workshop
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The Program in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa
Tuesday! November 18 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Othuke Umukoro will read from his debut poetry collection, 'Fenestration' in conversation with Reyumeh Ejue events.uiowa.edu/event/35188/
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Tuesday! November 18 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Othuke Umukoro will read from his debut poetry collection, 'Fenestration' in conversation with Reyumeh Ejue events.uiowa.edu/event/35188/
Tonight! 11/17 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Jen Percy will read from 'Girls Play Dead', joined in conversation by Kerry Howley events.uiowa.edu/event/35042
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Tonight! 11/17 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Jen Percy will read from 'Girls Play Dead', joined in conversation by Kerry Howley events.uiowa.edu/event/35042
Today! At 12:30 p.m. in the front foyer at Dey House, Cole Swensen, poet, former Workshop faculty member and recipient, this past weekend, of the Paul Engle Prize, will visit to chat and answer questions
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Today! At 12:30 p.m. in the front foyer at Dey House, Cole Swensen, poet, former Workshop faculty member and recipient, this past weekend, of the Paul Engle Prize, will visit to chat and answer questions
Saturday! 11/15 at 4 p.m., Shane McCrae will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House events.uiowa.edu/event/35167
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Saturday! 11/15 at 4 p.m., Shane McCrae will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House events.uiowa.edu/event/35167
Thursday! 11/13, 5:30 p.m. at Prairie Lights bookstore, Mic Check Poetry Fest will host a moderated discussion between three poetry performance artists: Workshop Professor of Poetry, Tracie Morris; MFA candidate, Warren C. Longmire; and Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey events.uiowa.edu/event/35041
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thursday! 11/13, 5:30 p.m. at Prairie Lights bookstore, Mic Check Poetry Fest will host a moderated discussion between three poetry performance artists: Workshop Professor of Poetry, Tracie Morris; MFA candidate, Warren C. Longmire; and Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey events.uiowa.edu/event/35041
Thursday! 11/13 at 7 p.m., U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford, Writer of 'Jarhead', will speak in the R. Wayne Richey Ballroom at the Iowa Memorial Union events.uiowa.edu/event/34897
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thursday! 11/13 at 7 p.m., U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford, Writer of 'Jarhead', will speak in the R. Wayne Richey Ballroom at the Iowa Memorial Union events.uiowa.edu/event/34897
Tonight! Monday, 11/10 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Writers' Workshop graduate Delaney Nolan will read from her new novel, 'Happy Bad', joined in conversation by University of Iowa Associate Professor of Fiction, Jamel Brinkley events.uiowa.edu/event/35040
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Tonight! Monday, 11/10 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Writers' Workshop graduate Delaney Nolan will read from her new novel, 'Happy Bad', joined in conversation by University of Iowa Associate Professor of Fiction, Jamel Brinkley events.uiowa.edu/event/35040
Tonight! Friday, 11/7 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Sara Gilmore and Alicia Wright will read from their poetry collections, 'The Green Lives', and 'You're Called by the Same Sound' events.uiowa.edu/event/33002/
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Tonight! Friday, 11/7 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Sara Gilmore and Alicia Wright will read from their poetry collections, 'The Green Lives', and 'You're Called by the Same Sound' events.uiowa.edu/event/33002/
"From Oklahoma to outer space: author Eliana Ramage on history, heritage and her debut novel," interview on Nashville's local news and NPR station | WPLN wpln.org/post/from-ok...
From Oklahoma to outer space: author Eliana Ramage on history, heritage and her debut novel
Author Eliana Ramage was born and raised in Nashville. Her new release, "To the Moon and Back," tells the fictional story of one young woman’s quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"From Oklahoma to outer space: author Eliana Ramage on history, heritage and her debut novel," interview on Nashville's local news and NPR station | WPLN wpln.org/post/from-ok...
Rising Like the Drowned: A tribute to Denis Johnson—writer, teacher, friend | The First Person with Michael Judge [substack]
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Rising Like the Drowned
A tribute to Denis Johnson—writer, teacher, friend
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November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Rising Like the Drowned: A tribute to Denis Johnson—writer, teacher, friend | The First Person with Michael Judge [substack]
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Curtis Sittenfeld with fellow author, Edy Poppy in St. Paul, MN on November 8th twincitiesbookfestival.com/edy-poppy-an...
Edy Poppy and Curtis Sittenfeld
The Global Short Story Saturday, November 8, 20251:30pm, Veterans Gallery (located upstairs from the Book Fair) ★ This event is ASL interpreted! Let’s talk about the short story with two ... Read More
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November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Curtis Sittenfeld with fellow author, Edy Poppy in St. Paul, MN on November 8th twincitiesbookfestival.com/edy-poppy-an...
Poetry we missed this past September: “March” by Christine Byrne | 'The Missouri Review' missourireview.com/byrne/
“March” by Christine Byrne | The Missouri Review
Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry
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November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Poetry we missed this past September: “March” by Christine Byrne | 'The Missouri Review' missourireview.com/byrne/
Okwudili Nebeolisa teaching a Poetry Society of New York free verse workshop on Nov 11 from 7pm to 8:15pm EST via NY www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-lgbtq...
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Okwudili Nebeolisa teaching a Poetry Society of New York free verse workshop on Nov 11 from 7pm to 8:15pm EST via NY www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-lgbtq...
Recording of Eliana Ramage's and fellow author, Vanessa Lillie's recent livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Rp...
Vanessa Lillie on The Bone Thief & Eliana Ramage on To the Moon and Back
YouTube video by The Poisoned Pen Bookstore
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November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Recording of Eliana Ramage's and fellow author, Vanessa Lillie's recent livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Rp...
Poetry by Hannah Piette, "Uncle Vanya," "Hannah Daughter," and "Screen Memory," in the 'Cleveland Review of Books' clereviewofbooks.com/three-poems-2/
Three Poems - Cleveland Review of Books
Forests moderate speech / By way of the soil.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Poetry by Hannah Piette, "Uncle Vanya," "Hannah Daughter," and "Screen Memory," in the 'Cleveland Review of Books' clereviewofbooks.com/three-poems-2/
Laurel Snyder in Decatur, GA on December 7th littleshopofstories.com/event/2025-1...
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Laurel Snyder in Decatur, GA on December 7th littleshopofstories.com/event/2025-1...
Recent visiting faculty member Hai-Dang Phan in Austin, TX on November 11 calendar.utexas.edu/event/vetera...
Veterans Day Poetry Reading: Deborah Paredez and Hai-Dang Phan
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November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Recent visiting faculty member Hai-Dang Phan in Austin, TX on November 11 calendar.utexas.edu/event/vetera...
Congratulations to Ben Shattuck, awarded the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award for his collection of stories, 'The History of Sound' marktwainaward.org/2025-winner www.boston.com/culture/movi...
Ben Shattuck’s New England-set book 'The History of Sound' wins Mark Twain award
The South Dartmouth writer and general store owner talks 18th century sex toys, a new Cambridge-set movie, and “New England sensibility."
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November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Congratulations to Ben Shattuck, awarded the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award for his collection of stories, 'The History of Sound' marktwainaward.org/2025-winner www.boston.com/culture/movi...
"An Overwhelming Treasure Trove of Writings by Kurt Vonnegut – An Interview with Isabel Planton" [Public Services Librarian at the Lilly Library, Indiana University] | The Daily Vonnegut blog thedailyvonnegut.com/an-overwhelm...
An Overwhelming Treasure Trove of Writings by Kurt Vonnegut – An Interview with Isabel Planton - The Daily Vonnegut
If there’s a Disney World for hard-core Vonnegut fans, it just might be at the Lilly Library at Indiana University, home of the Kurt Vonnegut Manuscript archives, a collection of papers, letters, draf...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"An Overwhelming Treasure Trove of Writings by Kurt Vonnegut – An Interview with Isabel Planton" [Public Services Librarian at the Lilly Library, Indiana University] | The Daily Vonnegut blog thedailyvonnegut.com/an-overwhelm...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
@iowawriterswksp.bsky.social @wnpld.bsky.social The Winnetka Public salutes Workshop grads with its November display. 🦃 🍁 🍂
#booksky 💙📚💙
#booksky 💙📚💙
Thursday! November 6th, at 7pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, Emily Wilson will read from her newest poetry collection, 'Burnt Mountain' events.uiowa.edu/event/34718
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Thursday! November 6th, at 7pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, Emily Wilson will read from her newest poetry collection, 'Burnt Mountain' events.uiowa.edu/event/34718
Kaethe Schwehn in Decorah, IA on November 12 dragonflybooks.com/events/36176...
Kaethe Schwehn in conversation with June Melby | The Gospel of Salome | Conversation, Q&A, and Signing! | Dragonfly Books
Decorah's local independent bookstore since 2011
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November 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Kaethe Schwehn in Decorah, IA on November 12 dragonflybooks.com/events/36176...
"Flannery O’Connor’s artistic visions" | 'America' The Jesuit Review www.americamagazine.org/art/2025/10/...
Flannery O’Connor’s artistic visions
Flannery O’Connor’s drawings, cartoons and paintings offer another way to take the measure of a woman who took the measure of our souls.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"Flannery O’Connor’s artistic visions" | 'America' The Jesuit Review www.americamagazine.org/art/2025/10/...
"The World According to John Irving" | 'The New York Times' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/s...
The World According to John Irving
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November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"The World According to John Irving" | 'The New York Times' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/s...
Vilcek Foundation on Instagram #ImmigrantStoryoftheWeek
highlighting writer Yaa Gyasi, 2020 Vilcek Prizewinner for Creative Promise in Literature www.instagram.com/reel/DQpgyLr...
highlighting writer Yaa Gyasi, 2020 Vilcek Prizewinner for Creative Promise in Literature www.instagram.com/reel/DQpgyLr...
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Vilcek Foundation on Instagram #ImmigrantStoryoftheWeek
highlighting writer Yaa Gyasi, 2020 Vilcek Prizewinner for Creative Promise in Literature www.instagram.com/reel/DQpgyLr...
highlighting writer Yaa Gyasi, 2020 Vilcek Prizewinner for Creative Promise in Literature www.instagram.com/reel/DQpgyLr...