Please join us for this year's Black Author's Panel in conjunction with the Iowa City Soul & Blues Festival. This year's event will be moderated by Arnold Daniels Jr., and feature readings and conversation with Donika Kelly, Stephen Willis, Gabrielle Williams, and Eliza David.

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Yiyun Li in celebration of the release of her book The Book of Goose (FSG, 2022). She will be joined in conversation by Lan Samantha Chang. 

Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway...

The Truman Capote Award Ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Sept. 14 in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber. The event will feature remarks by Heather Clark and a reception in the Old Capitol Museum. Both events are open to the public.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan won the 2021 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for her book, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose, released by Grove Press in 2021, and Heather Clark won the 2022 award for her book Red Comet: The...

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Anthony Marra in celebration of the release of his book Mercury Pictures Presents (Random House, 2022).

Anthony Marra is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.