Channel your creativity by participating in the annual Write Now: UI Alumni and Friends Hawkeye Haiku Contest. You have from Oct. 25–Nov. 6, 2023, to submit a haiku that explores a “together” theme in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. All your favorite Hawkeyes, young and old alike, can join you in this contest, so spread the word! For complete details, check out https://www.foriowa.org/write-now/hawkeye-haiku/. The top entry in each age category will be featured on the UI Write Now Contest website...

CANCELED Writers’ Workshop graduate Thomas Dodson will read from No Use Pretending, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, a collection that encompasses diverse genres, from ecologically informed realism to a Kafkaesque fairy tale, from fabulist “weird fiction” to an episode from The Odyssey that becomes a meditation on what distinguishes human beings from animals. Says Margot Livesey, “Thomas Dodson is a writer wonderfully aware of the resources of fiction and the necessities of the world...

mahogany is about the passing of time and unimaginable loss, strength, humor, and love. The book takes its name from the dark wood prized for its durability, workability, and elegant look, and from the Diana Ross movie, whose theme song asks if what lies ahead is what you really want. This book is the third in a trilogy, and like the first two books it is steeped in pop music.  erica lewis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is based in San Francisco. Her books include the precipice of jupiter...

The Iowa City Book festival presents an afternoon reading of The Unsettled by Writers' Workshop graduate Ayana Mathis, whom Yiyun Li has described as "one of the most brilliant writers working in today's America." "[A] powerful book.” —Marilynne Robinson Mathis’ first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie was a New York Times bestseller, an NPR Best Book of 2013, the second selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. and has been translated into sixteen languages. Her nonfiction has been published in...