Literature

Join us with the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series featuring 2024 Fall Residency writers Nurit Kasztelan (poet, fiction writer, editor, bookseller; Argentina), Saad Z. Hossain (fiction writer; Bangladesh), and Camila Urioste (poet, playwright, fiction writer; Bolivia). Nurit Kasztelan (poet, fiction writer, editor, bookseller; Argentina) is the author of the novel Tanto (2023), which was the recipient of...

John Elizabeth Stintzi  will read from their surreal, darkly humorous short stories told from a queer, non-binary perspective, Bad Houses. They will be joined in conversation by Mason Andrew Hamberlin.  "Bad Houses is a rare, incomparable collection, surreal yet firmly anchored to the mechanics of contemporary living. Mimes, dismemberment, pumpkin patch trolls, creatures made of mould and laundry--these...

Poets Shane Book and Mark Levine will read from their work.  Shane Book will read from All Black Everything (Kuhl House Poets, 2023). Mark Levine will read from Sound Fury (Univ of Iowa Press). “All Black Everything proposes an expansive, global poetics, which is equally a poetics of Black diasporan fluency. All Black’s poems ride the crosscurrents of history and popular...

Bessie Flores Zaldívar will read from Libertad, a queer YA coming-of-age novel set during the rigged Honduran presidential election about a young poet discovering the courage it takes to speak her truth about the people and country she loves.  Kirkus Reviews calls it “An emotionally charged must-read,” and in a starred review, Publishers Weekly says, “Through...