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Upcoming Events

Podcast: Museum Confidential Live
Sunday, September 24, 2023 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Join us for a live podcast session at the Stanley with Museum Confidential: The Podcast.
Host Jeff Martin will be in conversation with a panel of guest speakers including editor of In a Time of Witness, Derek (DK) Nnuro (Curator of Special Projects, Stanley Museum of Art), Lauren Lessing (Director, Stanley Museum of Art ) and contributing writers from In a Time of Witness.
The conversation will explore the ideas behind the conception of the catalog, how it merges visual and literary arts and...

IWP Reading at Prairie Lights Books
Sunday, September 24, 2023 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Join us for the International Writing Program's Prairie Lights Reading Series this Sunday to hear readings by three 2023 Fall Residency writers and four IWP program alumni.
Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction: Patricia Foster in Conversation with Darius Stewart
Thursday, September 28, 2023 7:00pm
Writer Patricia Foster, professor emerita at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, will read from her new collection of essays, Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter, on Thursday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. at Prairie Lights Books. A conversation with NWP alum and poet/essayist Darius Stewart will follow. All are welcome to attend this Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction event.

IWP Panel Discussion Series: "Writing the Not-Self"
Friday, September 29, 2023 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Join 2023 Fall Residency writers for a panel conversation/presentation followed by Q&A.

International Writing Program: Shambaugh House Reading
Friday, September 29, 2023 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Join us in person at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St., Iowa City) or online via Facebook or Zoom for a reading by two IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers. For those who are present in person, light refreshments will be provided.

IWP Reading at Prairie Lights Books
Sunday, October 1, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
A reading by international writers and UI MFA students.

Truman Capote Award Ceremony: R.A. Judy
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00pm
The Truman Capote Award Ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Oct. 4 in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber. The event will feature remarks by the winner and a reception in the Old Capitol Museum. Both events are open to the public.
R.A. Judy, professor of critical and cultural studies at the University of Pittsburgh, has been selected by the University of Iowa as the 2023 recipient of the Truman Capote Literary Trust Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin.
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EFC Lecture: A Dark, Unruly Space -- Patricia Foster
Thursday, October 5, 2023 4:00pm to 5:30pm
What happens when a mother and daughter with different political concerns discuss issues of race in America?
In 2015 on a visit home to Alabama, Patricia Foster and her mother argue over the riots in Ferguson, Missouri. This encounter becomes the catalyst for Foster’s visit to Africatown in Plateau, Alabama (forty miles from her hometown), where the last American slave ship, the Clotilda, arrived in 1860 after the U.S. had abolished the international slave trade in 1808.
What Foster...
Vauhini Vara Q&A
Friday, October 6, 2023 11:00am
The Writers' Workshop presents a Q&A with Vauhini Vara.
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IWP Panel Discussion Series: "Style in the Hard Light of Algorithm"
Friday, October 6, 2023 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Join 2023 Fall Residency writers for a panel conversation/presentation followed by Q&A.

International Writing Program: Shambaugh House Reading
Friday, October 6, 2023 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Join us in person at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St., Iowa City) or online via Facebook or Zoom for a reading by two IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers. For those who are present in person, light refreshments will be provided.

Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction
Friday, October 6, 2023 7:00pm
Margo Steines, author of the nonfiction book BRUTALITIES, will read at Prairie Lights Books on Friday, October 6 at 7pm.

Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction: Margo Steines
Friday, October 6, 2023 7:00pm
Margo Steines, author of the nonfiction book "Brutalities," will read at Prairie Lights Books on Friday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m.

IWP Reading at Prairie Lights Books
Sunday, October 8, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
A reading by international writers and UI MFA students.

IWP Panel Discussion Series: "On the Body"
Friday, October 13, 2023 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Join 2023 Fall Residency writers for a panel conversation/presentation followed by Q&A.

International Writing Program: Shambaugh House Reading
Friday, October 13, 2023 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Join us in person at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St., Iowa City) or online via Facebook or Zoom for a reading by two IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers. For those who are present in person, light refreshments will be provided.

IWP Reading at Prairie Lights Books
Sunday, October 15, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
A reading by international writers and UI MFA students.

Book Matters: The Theory of Being at Prairie Lights
Monday, October 16, 2023 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Join us for a reading and discussion, co-sponsored by Prairie Lights, to celebrate The Theory of Being: Practices for Transforming Self and Communities Across Difference, edited by a research team from the UI College of Education.

Writing in the Sinosphere: A Bilingual Reading
Thursday, October 19, 2023 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Seven of this year’s participants in the IWP Fall Residency—from Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Japan—write, read, translate, edit, and publish within the Sinosphere, working with Chinese languages to varying degrees. The writers will be reading from their work in their original languages, with translations provided.

Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction: Micah Fields
Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:00pm
UI Nonfiction Writing Program alum Micah Fields reads from his new book, We Hold Our Breath: A Journey to Texas Between Storms, on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. at Prairie Lights Books. This Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction event is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program. All are welcome.