Join us for a lively dual reading from Bell & Merrill's work-in-progress If & When. They’ll be joined in conversation by Stephen Corey, editor of The Georgia Review in which excerpts of the new book have just been published.

Free – All are Welcome!

Sundays this fall: The International Writing Program (IWP) and UI MFA writing programs take over the 2nd floor of Prairie Lights – grab a glass of wine or a fancy soda and settle in for an hour of highlights from their best work!
Reading Oct. 21:
Lolita Copacabana is an Argentinian writer, editor, and translator, and the author of Buena leche - Diarios de una joven [no tan] formal (2006) and the novel Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2015). In 2017, she was included in the Hay Festival’s ‘Bogotá 39,’ a...

You are invited to a literary coffee break with acclaimed film and TV writers David Kajanich and Vinnie Wilhelm!

On Friday, October 19th, join University of Iowa alumni David and Vinnie for coffee, cookies, and lively conversation about writing for TV and film in Hollywood. You’ll have time to ask questions about their career paths from Iowa to Hollywood and learn more about how the industry works.

This event will take place in 140 Schaeffer Hall and is hosted by the Magid Center for...

Nan Cohen will be at Dey House on October 19 to talk and answer questions about teaching opportunities for artists at private high schools.

Cohen is the author of two collections of poetry, Rope Bridge (2005) and Unfinished City (2017). Of Unfinished City Major Jackson writes: “Rarely does one encounter a book whose moral symmetry finds such eloquence and form in lines spare enough to encompass our deepest questions, yet taut enough to sustain us through grief, through the terrors of doubt...