Please join us on Zoom for a reading and conversation with former Iowa Citian, International Writing Program Resident, and Iowa Writers' Workshop Instructor,  Edward Carey, in celebration of the release of his book Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches (University of Texas Press, 2022). Register for the event HERE.

Plagues and Pencils is the sometimes gorgeous, often strange collection of drawings done by Carey during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each day for an entire year, Carey would...

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Belinda Huijuan Tang in celebration of the release of her book A Map for the Missing. She will be joined in conversation by Sanjena Sathian.

You can register for this virtual event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qEyuz2L1RNimWMhQAikH1w 

Belinda Huijuan Tang is a 2021 graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She holds a BA from Stanford...

Please join us on zoom with Writers’ Workshop Graduates Sarah Thankam Mathews and Sanjena Sathian, who will talk about Mathews’ new novel, All This Could Be Different. Mathews will also do a reading from the book. Described by Lithub as a “bildungsroman, an immigrant story, a hero’s journey not to be missed,”  All This Could Be Different is also a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America.

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The Writers' Workshop presents an in-person and virtual reading celebrating this summer session's Writers' Workshop 8-week class. Writers in the program will read from their work.

As the summer session draws to a close, join us for a small celebration/reading in the Frank Conroy Reading Room. Writers in this year's summer program will share some of their work, and we invite those who are in town to come out to listen and celebrate with cake!

Virtual attendees may join us via Zoom