Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This weekâs event features IWP Residents Priya Hein, Daryl Li, and an MFA Candidate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (TBA) Priya Hein (fiction and nonfiction writer; Mauritius) debuted in 2023 with the novel Riambel, which won the Prix AthĂŠna and was recognized as a notable African book...
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Okwudili Nebeolisa & Jessica Laser will read from their poetry. Okwudili Nebeolisa will read from Terminal Maladies, selected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2023 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Prize. âNebeolisaâs debut, Terminal Maladies, introduces a poet so skillful and original that his book represents a vital moment...
Merrilee Beckman - The Cave of the Dark Moon- Reading and Reception Please join us for a reading and reception with Iowa City author Merrilee Beckman, who will read from her latest book, The Cave of the Dark Moon! This incomparable science fiction/fantasy book series asks: Would you embrace your true animal nature if it meant...
Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alum Amy Kolen will read from her new book published by Ice Cube Press, Inside Voices: A Prison Choir, My Mother, and Me. âIn this powerful, moving, masterfully written memoir, Amy Kolen, a volunteer singer, enters the gates of a prison, slowly liberating herself and finding emotional relief from her old...
Writersâ Workshop graduate Afabwaje Kurian will read from her debut novel, Before the Mango Ripens. She will be joined in conversation by Claire Lombardo. âBefore the Mango Ripens is a historical novel that avoids predictable oppositions. Its charactersâ relationships and internal qualities are complex, its locals speak in indigenous Gbagyi, and its focus is realistic throughout. It...
Writers' Workshop alum m.s. RedCherries will read from her stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity, mother. âThis is an extraordinary debut by an innovative new voice in Native American literature. Throughout mother, m.s. RedCherries weaves a multigenerational and polyphonic narrative that spirals across time and space to explore themes of indigenous identity, adoption, residential...
Iowa Writersâ Workshop alum Jennifer Banks will read from her fascinating and thought-provoking book Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth. She will be joined in conversation by IWP Director Christopher Merrill. This special event has been co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Department of History, the International Writing Program, Digital Studio, and the Office of the...
Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series with Yassin Adnan (Morocco) and Lisa Allen-Agostini (Trinidad and Tobago). Yassin Adnan is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and television presenter. He is the author of six poetry collections, three short story collections, one novel, and one book about travel. The novel, Hot Maroc, was published in...
Iowa City poet Susan Aizenberg will read from A Walk With Frank OâHara: Poems, published by the University of New Mexico Press Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, edited by Hilda Raz. "Susan Aizenberg is a poet with a wonderfully distinct voice--the poems in A Walk With Frank O'Hara have that difficult-to-achieve illusion of effortlessness I deeply admire, with...
Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program graduate Tatatiana Schlote-Bonne will read from her YA horror debut, Such Lovely Skin. She will be joined in conversation by fellow NWP alum Jessie Kraemer.  Booklist says, âSchlote-Bonne's debut novel moves fast and doesn't slow down. Fans of Five Nights at Freddy's and other horror games will undoubtedly binge this jump scare-filled story.â "In mixing demonic...
Academy Award-nominated scriptwriter and Emmy winner Nicholas Meyer will read from his new book, Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell. "For decades, Nicholas Meyer has held sway as the preeminent author of Sherlockian tales, and Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell demonstrates his strengths in profusion: crisp plotting, rich cultural-political background, many flashes of wit, and...
Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This weekâs event features IWP Residents Nicholas Wong (Hong Kong) and Catarina Gomes (Portugal). Nicholas Wong (poet, translator, visual artist; Hong Kong) is the author of Crevasse, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and Besiege Me, which was a finalist for the same award....
