Join us with the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series featuring 2024 Fall Residency writers Nurit Kasztelan (poet, fiction writer, editor, bookseller; Argentina), Saad Z. Hossain (fiction writer; Bangladesh), and Writers’ Workshop MFA candidate Camila Urioste (poet, playwright, fiction writer; Bolivia). Nurit Kasztelan (poet, fiction writer, editor, bookseller; Argentina) is the author of the novel Tanto (2023), which was the recipient of an honorable mention for the National Award for...

The Washington Public Library will be holding its next Washington Writers Workshop this Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. This workshop will feature Miciah Pendarvis, a poet from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. There will be a presentation the first hour of the workshop, and the second hour will be dedicated to workshopping submissions. This event is free, and open to teens and adults. To subscribe to a weekly emailing list of Writers' Workshop events, please fill in the linked form or email iww@uiowa...

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...