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...

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.

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.

Join 2023 Fall Residency writers for a panel conversation/presentation followed by Q&A.

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.

A reading by international writers and UI MFA students.

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. To subscribe to a weekly...

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...

The Writers' Workshop presents a Q&A with Vauhini Vara.  To subscribe to a weekly emailing list of Writers' Workshop events, please fill in the linked form or email iww@uiowa.edu with “Events Mailing List Subscribe” in the subject line.

Join 2023 Fall Residency writers for a panel conversation/presentation followed by Q&A.

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.

Margo Steines, author of the nonfiction book BRUTALITIES, will read at Prairie Lights Books on Friday, October 6 at 7pm.

Margo Steines, author of the nonfiction book "Brutalities," will read at Prairie Lights Books on Friday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m.

A reading by international writers and UI MFA students.

Join 2023 Fall Residency writers for a panel conversation/presentation followed by Q&A.

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.

A reading by international writers and UI MFA students.

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.

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.

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.