Joel Worford released the album Thoughts for Breakfast under the artist name Whitney & The Saying Goes in 2021. Composed of nine songs written by himself, Thoughts for Breakfast combines soul, blues, alternative rock, jazz, americana, gospel and funk music. Joel has performed at numerous venues and restaurants around Richmond, Virginia, opened for the band American Authors at the Englert Theater in the fall of 2024, and has toured the east coast. He is a graduate student at the Iowa Writers’...

The Washington Public Library will be holding its next Washington Writers Workshop on Saturday, May 10, beginning at 10 a.m.Join us for a presentation on craft by our visiting fiction writer during the first hour. We will workshop submissions during the second hour.Julia Bohm is a writer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Currently, she is an MFA candidate in fiction at The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work can be found in Salt Hill Journal, The Adroit Journal, and in The Offing.If you would like to be on...

Marilynne Robinson will give a Q&A.Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home (2008), winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila (2014), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack (2020), a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson’s nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things (2015), When I...

Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Rawaan Alkhatib will be joined in conversation with fellow Writers' Workshop alums Carmen Maria Machado and Rachel Yoder to talk about food, books, bodies, and her new book: Hot Date!: Sweet & Savory Recipes Celebrating the Date, from Party Food to Everyday Feasts. Described from Alkhatib's publisher, Chronicle Books, as "The first comprehensive cookbook on an ancient superfood and the cultures that revere it," Hot Date! features "99 mouthwatering, date-centered...