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...

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.

DIPTYCH

A collaborative reading event between the Iowa Writers' Workshop and University of Iowa Center for the Book at Public Space One

Featuring:

Dani Charles

Kami Nzeribe

Keren Alfred

Kimberly Obee

Sarah Minor

Poets Julie Hanson and Mark Rahe will read from their latest books The Audible and the Evident and GRAVITY WELL at the Iowa City Public Library. 

Marc Rahe received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have appeared in Gutcult, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, jubilat, notnostrums, Painted Bride Quarterly, Petri Press, Sixth Finch, and other literary journals. Marc lives in Iowa City and works for a human service agency.

Julie Hanson is the author of Unbeknownst, an Iowa...