Candice Wuehle will read from her new novel, Ultranatural. The University of Iowa Press describes it as: "Part pop elegy, part horror story, part radical reimagining of female celebrity...Ultranatural autotunes the static of fame until it sounds like prophecy." Anna Dorn, author of Perfume and Pain, praises Ultranatural as "Candice Wuehle’s sharp, surreal telling of a body turned brand, and the girl trapped beneath it," while E. K. Sathue, author of Youthjuice, says: "Ultranatural skewers fame...

Please join us for a reading by Alice Sola Kim.

Alice Sola Kim’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Lightspeed, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, among other publications. Kim was a MacDowell Colony Fellow and has received grants and scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Elizabeth George Foundation. She is currently working on her first novel and lives in Brooklyn, New York. -- https://brooklynbookfestival.org...

Join us for a reading with two members of the Workshop's visiting faculty:

Tony Tulathimutte’s novel Private Citizens was called “the first great millennial novel” by New York Magazine. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has written for The New York Times, VICE, WIRED, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, N+1, Playboy, The Paris Review, and many others. He has received a 2017 Whiting Award, an O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Fellowship, and appeared as...

Daniel Poppick will read from his new novel, The Copywriter. Described as "A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work," The Copywriter was named one of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 and is praised by Katy Waldman of The New Yorker as a book that "Tune[s] in to the metaphysical dimension of everyday suffering, articulating it with a metrical precision...Poppick's point isn't that everything matters, it's that anything might...