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News, Publications, and Awards

Garth Greenwell wins 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Jenny George, Daniel Khalastchi and Jerald Walker are finalists for 2025 PEN Literary Awards Jamel Brinkley and Charles D'Ambrosio awarded Academy of Arts and Letters awards Jamel Brinkley wins 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award Juan Felipe Herrera awarded 2024 MacArthur Genius Grant Ruthvika Rao shortlisted for the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize Elizabeth Willis and m.s. RedCherries longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Poetry Tony Tulathimutte longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction

Before the Mango Ripens
Afabwaje Kurian
_{September 24, 2024 | Fiction}

The Goner School
Jessica Laser
_{September 27, 2024 | Poetry}

Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
_{September 3, 2024 | Fiction}

Terminal Maladies
Okwudili Nebeolisa

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Monday, May 11, 2026

Tonight! 5/11 at 7pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, Uchenna Awoke will read from his new novel, 'A Siege of Owls', joined in conversation by Reyumeh Ejue events.uiowa.edu/event/37494

Join us Thursday, April 30 at 8pm in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House, for a reading by Jeffrey Yang, author of poetry collections 'Line and Light'; 'Hey, Marfa'; 'Vanishing-Line'; and 'An Aquarium' events.uiowa.edu/event/37425

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Monday, April 27, 2026

Tonight! Monday, April 27 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Workshop poetry visiting faculty member, Farnoosh Fathi will read from 'Granny Cloud', and Elizabeth Zuba will read from 'Where is Everyone!' events.uiowa.edu/event/37486

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Friday, April 24, 2026

Tonight! 4/24 at 7pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, visiting poetry faculty member, Jack Saebyok Jung will read from his translation of Kim Hyesoon's 'Lady No', and Cindy Juyoung Ok will read from her translation of Hyesoon's 'The Hell of That Star' events.uiowa.edu/event/37047

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Thursday, April 23, 2026

Workshop Poetry Professor, Elizabeth Willis reading tonight, 4/23, with Farid Matuk at the Poetry Society of America in Brooklyn, NY, in person and via livestream at 7pm ET https://poetrysociety.org/events/psa-reading-series-matuk-willis

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Tonight! Wednesday, 4/22 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Rebecca Lehmann will read from her new novel, 'The Beheading Game', in conversation with Paige Lewis events.uiowa.edu/event/37046