Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

Write Now Contest | Hawkeye Haiku

Monday, November 4 9:00am to Friday, November 15, 2024 4:00pm
How do you define “family?” Is it a group of individuals who live under one roof, or a select number of individuals who are there for you no matter the circumstances? See details and submit: https://www.foriowa.org/write-now/hawkeye-haiku/ Use your own definition of this word as you channel your creativity in our annual Write Now: UI Alumni and Friends Hawkeye Haiku Contest. You have from Nov. 4–15, 2024, to send us a haiku that explores a “family” theme in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. The age...
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Mary Engle Burge

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 6:00pm
Coralville Public Library
Visit Coralville Public Library for an evening with Mary Engle Burge as she shares her childhood experiences as a close observer of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the 1940s and ’50s. Mary’s rich stories stem from her interactions with the six writers who lived with the Engles, as well as many others who visited for shorter stints. After school, she spent countless afternoons at the Iowa Writers Workshop quonset hut, keenly observing her father and forming vivid memories of the community. The...
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Live from Prairie Lights | Shane Book & Mark Levine

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
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 culture through African America, the Caribbean, West Africa, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As references whirl and...
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Coralville Public Library | Paul Engle Prize Ceremony: Camille Dungy

Thursday, November 14, 2024 7:00pm
Coralville Public Library
Camille Dungy has been named the 13th recipient of the Paul Engle Prize, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization.  Dungy will receive the prize at a ceremony at the Coralville Public Library on Thursday, November 14, at 7:00 pm.  Following the ceremony Dungy will speak about her work and experiences.  A reception will follow with books available for sale from Prairie Lights Book Store.  This event is free and open to the public. The prize, established in 2011, honors...
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Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Sunday, November 24, 2024 2:30pm to 4:15pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Fall Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen...
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Art & Write Night

Friday, December 6, 2024 6:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces. Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists. Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session...

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Prairie Lights Books | IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series: Nurit Kasztelan, Saad Z. Hossai, & Camila Urioste

Sunday, November 10, 2024 4:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
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 Writers’ Workshop MFA candidate 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 an honorable mention for the National Award for...
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Washington Writers Workshop: Miciah Pendarvis at the Washington, IA Public Library

Saturday, November 9, 2024 10:00am
Washington Public Library
The Washington Public Library will be holding its next Washington Writers Workshop this Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. This workshop will feature Miciah Pendarvis, a poet from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. There will be a presentation the first hour of the workshop, and the second hour will be dedicated to workshopping submissions. This event is free, and open to teens and adults. To subscribe to a weekly emailing list of Writers' Workshop events, please fill in the linked form or email iww@uiowa...

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