Iowa City Book Festival
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Iowa City Book Festival
October 14 @ 8:00 am - October 20 @ 5:00 pm
WELCOME TO IOWA CITY!ย The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization is proud to offer you a week of excellent, one-of-a-kind, free, literary programming as part of the 2024 Iowa City Book Festival. Iowa City is a City of Literature for many reasons: The wonderful writing programs at the University of Iowa, our small presses and magazines, our wonderful libraries, our bookstores, and amenities like the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk.
The Iowa City Book Festival is organized by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, a nonprofit 501(c)3 that manages the Iowa City areaโs designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. The City of Literature works to advance its mission of celebrating and supporting literature on a local, regional, national, and international level, connecting readers and writers through the power of story.
The Graduate Iowa City is the preferred hotel for visitors to the Iowa City Book Festival.ย Click here to make your reservationย or call 319-337-4058 and reference the โIowa City Book Festival Room Blockโ to receive a discounted rate.
Resilient Voices: A Multimedia Exhibition Celebrating Youth Empowerment, Global Perspectives, and the Legacy of Anne Frank
October 14ย –ย October 20
Curator Guided Tour: Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories
October 15 @ 4:00 pm
Iowa City,ย IAย United Statesย + Google Map
Anna Barker: From Peter the Great to Napoleon the Lesser: Dostoevsky and the Great Men of History
October 15 @ 4:30 pm
Austin Allen Hamblin and John Ira Thomas โ Big Guns Stupid Rednecks
October 16 @ 1:00 pmย –ย 3:00 pm
Iowa Bibliophiles โ Guest Author Megan Rosenbloom
October 16 @ 6:00 pm
Iowa City,ย IAย 52242ย United Statesย + Google Map
Josh Cowen โ The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
October 19 @ 11:30 am
Marguerite Sheffer โ The Man in the Banana Trees and Sharon Wahl โ Everything Flirts
October 19 @ 11:30 am
James Fitzmaurice โ Hobgoblin Gennel
October 19 @ 2:30 pm
Iowa City,ย IAย 52242ย United Statesย + Google Map
Ari Berman โ Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the Peopleโand the Fight to Resist It
October 19 @ 2:30 pm
Corban Addison โ Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
October 20 @ 3:00 pmย –ย 4:30 pm
