Please join us for our annual IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Florencia del Campo (Spain), and Agnes Chew (Singapore). They will be accompanied by current Iowa Writers' Workshop student, Audrey Cherchiara.

Florencia del Campo (fiction writer; Argentina/Spain) is the author of four novels: the first one is La huésped (2016), for which del Campo was a finalist for the 2014 Premio Equis de Novela. In 2017, she published Madre mía. Her third novel, La...

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Stephen Starring Grant will read from and talk with Daniel Khalastchi about his new memoir, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home. The Atlantic says about Mailman: "A love letter to the Blue Ridge Mountains, a participant observer's ethnography of a rural post office, an indictment of government austerity, and a witness statement attesting to the remarkable and at times ruthless efficiency of one of our oldest federal...

Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Fall Semester!

Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece.

Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen and...