Workshop Director, Lan Samantha Chang and Visiting Fiction Professor Tom Drury will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House at 7 p.m.

Tom Drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His novels have been translated into Spanish, German, and French. His essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Harper’s, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, the Mississippi Review, and...

Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring 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...

Workshop Poetry Professor, Mark Levine, and Visiting Assistant Fiction Professor, Afabwaje Kurian will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of Dey House/ Glenn Schaeffer Library at 7 p.m.

Afabwaje Kurian is the author of the novel Before the Mango Ripens, which was longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short fiction has been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Callaloo, Crazyhorse (now swamp.pink), The Bare Life...

Joel Worford released the album Thoughts for Breakfast under the artist name Whitney & The Saying Goes in 2021. Composed of nine songs written by himself, Thoughts for Breakfast combines soul, blues, alternative rock, jazz, americana, gospel and funk music. Joel has performed at numerous venues and restaurants around Richmond, Virginia, opened for the band American Authors at the Englert Theater in the fall of 2024, and has toured the east coast. He is a graduate student at the Iowa Writers’...