Iowa Writers' Workshop Program Administrator, Connie Brothers’ Retirement Celebration will be held Saturday, October 5, 2019 at  4:00 p.m. in Macbride Hall Auditorium

Speakers for the event will be Marilynne Robinson, Francine Prose, Chris Adrian and Jim Galvin

We are pleased to extend this invitation to all members of the university and greater Iowa City communities!

The Iowa City Book Festival presents Lisa Tetrault, who will talk about her book The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848–1898.

“This provocative work challenges the standard narrative of the history of the women's rights movement in the United States. Even more important, however, it aids readers in understanding how collective historical memory is created and shaped. . . . Fascinating. . . . Recommended for scholars in women's history, constitutional history...

The Iowa City Book Festival presents Donika Kelly and Melissa Febos, who will read from their work.

2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner and 2016 National Book Award long-listed poet Donika Kelly will read from Bestiary: Poems. 

“What a gorgeous book of poems. The love poems, in particular, are striking with unexpected ideas and imagery coalescing into poetry about this thing called love. . . . This one, I savored.” ―Roxane Gay

Donika Kelly’s poems have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Indi...

The Iowa City Book Festival presents Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, who will read from House of Stone.

“With luminous language, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma explores the treacherous terrain of colonization and decolonization, remembering and forgetting, and love and betrayal. The result is a gripping account of revolution and its aftermath, both for a country and for one man.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma grew up in Zimbabwe and lives in Houston, Texas. Her short story collection, Shadows, won the 2014...