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Prairie Lights Books | IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series: Sabyn Javeri, Okamoto Kei, & Joshua Balicki

Sunday, November 3, 2024 4:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Sabyn Javeri (Pakistan, UK & UAE) and Okamoto Kei (Japan), and Writers’ Workshop MFA candidate Joshua Balicki (USA). Sabyn Javeri (fiction and nonfiction writer, translator; Pakistan, UK & UAE) is the author of the short story collection Hijabistan (2019) and the novel Nobody Killed Her (2017). She is the editor of volumes 1 and 2 of the multilingual Arzu Anthology of Student Writing (2018–2019)...
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Mona Susan Power Reading

Friday, November 1, 2024 8:00pm
Dey House
The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Mona Susan Power. Mona Susan Power is the author of four books of fiction, including The Grass Dancer (a National Bestseller awarded a PEN/Hemingway Prize), Roofwalker (a collection of stories and essays awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize), Sacred Wilderness (a novel which received the Electa Quinney Award), and A Council of Dolls (winner of the Minnesota Book Award and High Plains Book Award, longlisted for the National Book Award and the...
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Art & Write Night

Friday, November 1, 2024 6:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces. Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists. Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session...
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Mona Susan Power Q&A

Friday, November 1, 2024 11:00am
Dey House
The Writers' Workshop presents a Q&A with Mona Susan Power. Mona Susan Power is the author of four books of fiction, including The Grass Dancer (a National Bestseller awarded a PEN/Hemingway Prize), Roofwalker (a collection of stories and essays awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize), Sacred Wilderness (a novel which received the Electa Quinney Award), and A Council of Dolls (winner of the Minnesota Book Award and High Plains Book Award, longlisted for the National Book Award and the...