Please join us for a reading and conversation with Mary Helen Stefaniak to celebrate the release of her new novel The World of Pondside. She will be joined in conversation by Bruce Brown.

Eileen Pollack, author of The Professor of Immortality, says of the novel, "With infinite compassion and great good humor, Mary Helen Stefaniak takes us on a wild, suspenseful ride through a world most of us normally shy away from. A high-tech thriller set in a nursing home, The World of Pondside will cause...

Join Ukrainian and U.S. writers in person at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St Iowa City) or online for a special reading dedicated to supporting Ukraine.

Co-sponsored by Prairie Lights Bookstore, the Iowa City and Lviv UNESCO Cities of Literature, and International Programs.

Register for the event in advance here: https://bit.ly/readingforukraine

Reneice Charles

Reneice is a writer, recipe developer, and food photographer often found beachside in Los Angeles, CA. Reneice was the Managing Editor for SKEW Magazine issue 03 // Black Abundance, and will serve as Editor in Chief for issues 04 and 05. She is the author of the queer baking column, Femme Brûlée, formerly on Autostraddle.com. Reneice is also the current programming and communications manager at the LA based arts organization Level Ground. Her artistic work centers joy as...

Sarah Minor

Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist and author of Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press 2020), winner of the 2020 Big Other Nonfiction Book Award, and The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated, a chapbook from Essay Press. Minor is the recipient of the Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, an Individual Research Grant to Iceland, and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Her essays have been...