The annual Lit Walk returns to MCF this year with three rounds of speakers at your favorite local hotspots! Bringing Iowa City to life in new ways, hear an unexpected variety of work from a mix of talented local and out-of-town writers. For complete lineup, check the 2023 Mission Creek Festival Website!

Join us at Prairie Lights at 7 p.m. with Shelley Wong, Lauren Haldeman, and Courtney Marie Andrews, who will read from their work. 

Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears, winner of the...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by visiting faculty members, Ladee Hubbard and Duriel Harris

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Poet Jessica Laser will read from her new book, Planet Drill. "In an era of disintegration, frack and melt, any human who wants to move away from habits of harm must feel for new ways to inhabit Planet Drill, using our signature bodily function: language. In Jessica Laser's Planet Drill, human language is like the slime-mold quietly recreating the subway map of Tokyo: deft, resourceful, pliant, responsive, and finally, collectively, wise." — Joyelle McSweeney

Jessica Laser is the author of two...

This spring, the Stanley Reads book group features What Napoleon Could Not Do, the debut novel of Derek (DK) Nnuro, the museum’s curator of special projects. The club will meet three times over the spring semester to discuss the novel and discover how objects in the Homecoming exhibition connect with themes in the book. Nnuro will also be on hand to answer questions about the novel and engage participants in craft discussions. We encourage budding writers—especially writers of fiction—to join us...