Susan Steinberg will read from Machine: A Novel, published by Graywolf.  “After making waves with her book Spectacle, bold stylist Susan Steinberg resurfaces with her first novel, a tale of gender, class, privilege and trauma set during a summer at the shore. . . . The narrative grapples with guilt and blame while eschewing formal conventions.”―Chicago Tribune

Susan Steinberg is the author of Spectacle, Hydroplane, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists...

Writers’ Workshop visiting faculty members, Alexia Arthurs and Cody-Rose Clevidence, will read from their work on Thursday, October 10th in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 8pm.

Alexia Arthurs is the author of the short story collection, How to Love a Jamaican. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Arthurs has been published in Granta, The Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vice, and The Paris Review, which awarded her the Plimpton Prize in 2017. She was born and raised in Jamaica...

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...