ISWF instructors and Writers’ Workshop graduates Charles Holdefer and Anthony Varallo will read from their new fiction.

Charles Holdefer will read from Magic Even You Can Do.  Holdefer is the author of the novels Dick Cheney in Shorts, The Contractor, Apology for Big Rod, and Back In The Game.  He is also the author of a work of Literary Criticism called George Saunders’ Pastoralia Bookmarked. His short fiction has appeared in magazines including the New England Review, Chicago Quarterly Review...

Join the International Writing Program (IWP) for an open mic night at Iowa City Yacht Club. Teen IWP Between the Lines Writing Camp program participants from around the world will read their creative works in a supportive environment. Teens from the community are invited to come and read their work as well! Free and open to all.

The International Writing Program (IWP) presents prize-winning authors Armen of Armenia, Dora Malech, Asli Perker, and Yuriy Serebriansky, current instructors for the IWP Between the Lines youth writing and cultural exchange session. Join us at Prairie Lights for a reading of their work!

In Celebration of the release this month of James Tate’s posthumous collection of poems, The Government Lake, Iowa City poets and poetry-lovers will read from his work.

James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He attended The Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the 1960’s where he wrote his highly acclaimed first collection of poems, The Lost Pilot, which won the prestigious Yale Younger Poetry Award when Tate was only 22 years old. He went on to publish seventeen books of poetry, including...