Please join us with poets Timothy Donnelly and Christine Kwon, who will read from their new poetry!  Timothy Donnelly will read from his fourth collection of poems, Chariot. “If Whitman had had a young kid and a Brooklyn apartment, too many bills, and stack of takeout menus in the top drawer of his Ikea desk, he would have written these poems...” — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker

Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Problem of the Many (Wave, 2019); The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010; Picador...

Please join us with Iowa City Book Festival Director John Kenyon on Zoom with authors Dina Nayeri and Jeff Sharlet, who will talk about their new books, Who Gets Believed and The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. Both authors will read selections from their books and talk about the political and cultural issues raised by both books in a discussion led by Kenyon. Register HERE.

Dina Nayeri will read from Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough. "Dina Nayeri's mesmerizing, genre...

Writers' Workshop alum Jane Roper will read from her timely and witty new novel The Society of Shame, one of the Washington Post's Most Anticipated Books of the Year. "Fans of Where'd You Go Bernadette and Dietland are sure to love The Society of Shame. This down-to-earth, biting, cinematic, and funny novel perfectly captures the many absurdities of our modern age and the indignities of middle age for women. With intelligence and a satirical eye for the just right detail, Roper lays bare the...

The Writers' Workshop presents a Q & A with Sheila Heti.

Sheila Heti is the author of 10 books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? She recently published her second children’s book, A Garden of Creatures, illustrated by Esme Shapiro. In early 2024, Alphabetical Diaries will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Knopf Canada. The book, which was excerpted over 10 weeks in The New York Times, has been optioned for a television...