The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by visiting faculty members, Margaret Ross and Ada Zhang. Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare. Her poems and translations have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, and POETRY, and have been recognized by a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Fulbright arts grant, and residencies from Yaddo. Ada Zhang's short stories have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. The Sorrows of Others, her first story...

How do you define “family?” Is it a group of individuals who live under one roof, or a select number of individuals who are there for you no matter the circumstances? See details and submit: https://www.foriowa.org/write-now/hawkeye-haiku/ Use your own definition of this word as you channel your creativity in our annual Write Now: UI Alumni and Friends Hawkeye Haiku Contest. You have from Nov. 4–15, 2024, to send us a haiku that explores a “family” theme in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. The age...

Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Sabyn Javeri (Pakistan, UK & UAE) and Okamoto Kei (Japan), and Writers’ Workshop MFA candidate Joshua Balicki (USA). Sabyn Javeri (fiction and nonfiction writer, translator; Pakistan, UK & UAE) is the author of the short story collection Hijabistan (2019) and the novel Nobody Killed Her (2017). She is the editor of volumes 1 and 2 of the multilingual Arzu Anthology of Student Writing (2018–2019)...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Mona Susan Power. Mona Susan Power is the author of four books of fiction, including The Grass Dancer (a National Bestseller awarded a PEN/Hemingway Prize), Roofwalker (a collection of stories and essays awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize), Sacred Wilderness (a novel which received the Electa Quinney Award), and A Council of Dolls (winner of the Minnesota Book Award and High Plains Book Award, longlisted for the National Book Award and the...