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Prairie Lights Virtual | Antoine Wilson in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken promotional image
Prairie Lights Virtual | Antoine Wilson in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken
Thursday, January 20, 2022 7:00pm
Virtual

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Antoine Wilson to celebrate the release of his new book Mouth to Mouth. He will be joined in conversation with author Elizabeth McCracken.

To join this virtual event, register here.

The New York Times calls the book "An enthralling literary puzzle...This powerful, intoxicating book’s greatest tension is that we have no idea where it is heading.” 

Antoine Wilson is the author of the novels Panorama City and The Interloper. His work has...

Emory University, Oxford College - Virtual Event | Writers' Workshop Professor, Margot Livesey in conversation with Dr. Tameka Cage Conley promotional image
Emory University, Oxford College - Virtual Event | Writers' Workshop Professor, Margot Livesey in conversation with Dr. Tameka Cage Conley
Monday, December 6, 2021 6:00pm
Virtual

Emory University in Atlanta, GA will host Iowa Writers' Workshop Fiction Professor, Margot Livesey in conversation with Dr. Tameka Cage Conley, online on December 6th at 7:00 P.M. EST (6:00 P.M. Central Time)

Reading with Q & A to follow. Join via Zoom: https://emory.zoom.us/j/694929263

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Prairie Lights Virtual | Elizabeth Weiss in conversation with Yaa Gyasi
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Elizabeth Weiss to celebrate the release of her new book The Sisters Sweet. She will be joined in conversation with author Yaa Gyasi.

To join this virtual event, register here.

Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less, writes, “The Sisters Sweet will charm you into another world. Weiss has conjured a lost America with wit, sorrow, and beauty—a book like a favorite old movie.”

Elizabeth Weiss earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers...

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Iowa City Book Festival: Gregory Galloway
Saturday, October 23, 2021 11:30am
Iowa City Public Library

Award-winning Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Gregory Galloway will read from and discuss his third novel, Just Thieves, a classic noir that follows recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves Rick and Frank, whose latest job is easy… perhaps too easy.