Thomas Fox Averill, an alumnus of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and a faculty member of the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, will launch a week of live literary-reading streams on the Writing University website at 7 p.m. Monday, July 18.

The readings, originating in free events at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City, will also feature: --Novelist Donald Ray Pollock reading from "The Devil All the Time" at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 21. --And poets Anne Shaw and Traci Brimhall, at 7 p.m. Friday, July 22. read more...