Please join us on Friday, March 4, 2022 from 1-2pm CT for an information session on the Fulbright U.S. Student Program geared toward master’s and doctoral students (applicants must be U.S. citizens). The workshop topics will include:

UI Fulbright Faculty Mentors Professor Kathleen Newman (Spanish and...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Yaa Gyasi and Emily Wilson.

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her debut novel, Homegoing, won her the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction, the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” honors for 2016, and the American Book Award. In  2020, she won the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature and published her second novel, Transc...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Donika Kelly and Hai-Dang Phan.

Donika Kelly is the author of THE RENUNCIATIONS (Graywolf 2021) and BESTIARY (Graywolf). BESTIARY is the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The collection was also long listed for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award and a Lambda Literary Award. A Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the...

This spring, as part of the University of Iowa's 175th anniversary celebrations, the Stanley Reads book club will be reading A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. A Thousand Acres won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1992.

Please register to join: https://tinyurl.com/1000acres. 

Stanley Reads will meet at 7:00 p.m.on three Mondays: February 21, March 21, and April 25.

Programs will take place over Zoom with closed-captioning available...