Please join us at 4:30 p.m. to commemorate the life of Connie Brothers, Program Associate of the Writers' Workshop from 1974-2019 and friend of Prairie Lights bookstore.

Speakers will include: Maggie Conroy, David Hamilton, Rachel McPherson, Jan Weissmiller, Pam Willard and Kevin Zou.

[Event recording available for viewing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9OfzKMzTD8 ]

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Brooklyn-based writer and Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Paul Lisicky will read from his newest book, Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell. He will be joined in conversation with fellow Writers' Workshop alum and current Iowa City resident, Garth Greenwell. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2025 by Kirkus Reviews, LitHub, and Electric Lit, Song So Wild and Blue is a "guide to life that is part memoir, part biography [of Joni Mitchell], and part homage," and it's "a...

Visiting Professor of Fiction, Tom Drury will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room in Glenn Schaeffer Library.

Tom Drury is from the American Midwest. As a teenager he walked beans and worked at a grain elevator, though he doubts that people walk beans anymore, and the grain elevator is gone, as are the railroad tracks that brought the boxcars to the grain elevator.

He's written five novels, and his writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, A Public Space, Ploughshares, Granta, Th...

Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Sanjena Sathian will read from her new novel, Goddess Complex, and will be joined in conversation by Ren Arcamone, also a Writers' Workshop alum. Penguin Random House, which published Goddess Complex, describes it as "a darkly funny, vertiginous novel about the dilemmas of procreation, pregnancy, and parenting." Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of the National Book Award finalist All This Could Be Different, praises Goddess Complex as "the most interesting, illuminating...