Events Archive
Fall 2024 Events
Live from Prairie Lights | Garth Greenwell in conversation with Jamel Brinkley
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Live from Prairie Lights | Bret Anthony Johnston in conversation with Ethan Canin
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Black Market Connection
Friday, August 30, 2024 5:30pm to 8:00pm ;
∇ Stanley Museum of Art
Live from Prairie Lights | Ruthvika Rao - The Fertile Earth
Friday, August 30, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Live from Prairie Lights | Regina Porter in conversation with Claire Lombardo
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Art & Write Night
Friday, September 6, 2024 6:00pm to 8:00pm ;
∇ University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Live from Prairie Lights | Hannah Bonner and Dan Wriggins
Friday, September 6, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Book Matters: Louisa Hall and Bennett Sims in conversation with Donika Kelly
Monday, September 9, 2024 7:00pm to 8:30pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Prompt for the Planet: Community Promises
Sunday, September 15, 2024 2:00pm to 3:30pm ;
∇ Englert Theater
Elizabeth Willis Reading and book launch for 'Liontaming in America'
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:00pm ;
∇ Dey House
Ling Ma Reading and Q & A
Thursday, September 19, 2024 6:30pm to 7:30pm ;
∇ English-Philosophy Building
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop
Sunday, September 22, 2024 2:30pm to 4:15pm ;
∇ Stanley Museum of Art
Prairie Lights Books | IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series: Yassin Adnan, Lisa Allen-Agostini, & Victoria Sanchez
Sunday, September 22, 2024 4:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Medicine and Humanities Celebration
Monday, September 23, 2024 6:00pm to 8:00pm ;
∇ Medical Education Research Facility&
Hancher Auditorium presents | On Baldwin: Celebrating a Great American Writer, Night #1
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 5:00pm ;
∇ Hancher Auditorium&
Jennifer Banks in conversation with Christopher Merrill - Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Hancher Auditorium presents | On Baldwin: Celebrating a Great American Writer, Night #2
Thursday, September 26, 2024 4:00pm ;
∇ Hancher Auditorium
Live from Prairie Lights | m.s. RedCherries in conversation with Lan Samantha Chang
Thursday, September 26, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Live from Prairie Lights | Afabwaje Kurian in conversation with Claire Lombardo
Friday, September 27, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
2024 Truman Capote Award Ceremony: Gene Andrew Jarrett
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 4:00pm ;
∇ Old Capitol Museum
Art & Write Night
Friday, October 4, 2024 6:00pm to 8:00pm ;
∇ University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Live from Prairie Lights | Okwudili Nebeolisa & Jessica Laser - poetry
Friday, October 4, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Live from Prairie Lights | Cass Donish & Melissa Dickey
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Iowa City Book Festival | Tree Tour: Literary Grove at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Monday, October 14, 2024 12:00pm ;
∇ Dey House
Iowa City Book Festival | Stuart Dybek
Monday, October 14, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Literary Legends With Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Tracy Kidder
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 7:30pm ;
∇ Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Iowa City Book Festival | Panel Discussion: Sense of Place
Saturday, October 19, 2024 10:00am ;
∇ Iowa City Senior Center
Iowa City Book Festival | Elizabeth Willis 'Liontaming in America'
Saturday, October 19, 2024 12:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Iowa City Book Festival | Chris Offutt – Code of the Hills
Saturday, October 19, 2024 2:30pm ;
∇ Iowa City Masonic Building
Refocus Film Festival | Poetry Reading: Perry Janes, Anna Morrison and Hannah Bonner
Saturday, October 19, 2024 2:30pm ;
∇ FilmScene (Chauncey)
Iowa City Book Festival | Poetry in Public Reading
Sunday, October 20, 2024 12:30pm ;
∇ Virtual
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop
Sunday, October 27, 2024 2:30pm to 4:15pm ;
∇ Stanley Museum of Art
Prairie Lights Books | IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series: Yu Yoyo, Felipe Franco Munhoz, & Car Simione
Sunday, October 27, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Mona Susan Power Q&A
Friday, November 1, 2024 11:00am ;
∇ Dey House
Art & Write Night
Friday, November 1, 2024 6:00pm to 8:00pm ;
∇ University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Mona Susan Power Reading
Friday, November 1, 2024 8:00pm ;
∇ Dey House
Prairie Lights Books | IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series: Sabyn Javeri, Okamoto Kei, & Joshua Balicki
Sunday, November 3, 2024 4:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Write Now Contest | Hawkeye Haiku
Monday, November 4 9:00am to Friday, November 15, 2024 4:00pm ;
∇ Online
Margaret Ross and Ada Zhang, Fall Faculty Reading
Thursday, November 7, 2024 8:00pm ;
∇ Dey House
Washington Writers Workshop: Miciah Pendarvis at the Washington, IA Public Library
Saturday, November 9, 2024 10:00am ;
∇ Washington Public Library
Prairie Lights Books | IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series: Nurit Kasztelan, Saad Z. Hossai, & Camila Urioste
Sunday, November 10, 2024 4:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Mary Engle Burge
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 6:00pm ;
∇ Coralville Public Library
Live from Prairie Lights | Shane Book & Mark Levine
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Prairie Lights Books
Coralville Public Library | Paul Engle Prize Ceremony: Camille Dungy
Thursday, November 14, 2024 7:00pm ;
∇ Coralville Public Library
PUBLIQuartet
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 1:00pm ;
∇ Dey House
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop
Sunday, November 24, 2024 2:30pm to 4:15pm ;
∇ Stanley Museum of Art
Art & Write Night
Thursday, December 5, 2024 6:00pm to 8:00pm ;
∇ University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Abby Geni & Anthony Cody: Reading
Friday, December 6, 2024 8:00pm ;
∇ Dey House
Washington Writers Workshop: ko ko thett at the Washington, IA Public Library
Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:00am ;
∇ Washington Public Library