The Iowa City Mission Creek Festival will host numerous literary arts events throughout Iowa City, beginning at 11 a.m. with a Small Press & Literary Magazine Fair at the Chauncey Building, a Small Press Industry talk with Black Lawrence Press and Meekling Press at FilmScene Theater 3, a The Sun Readers Write Workshop at the Tuesday Agency, I.C.E. C.R.E.A.M. Zine Fair at Public Space One, a Literary Conversation with Fonograph and Sarabande at FilmScene Theater 3,  Lit Hub’s Thresholds Podcast w...

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...