The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Kevin Brockmeier and Melissa Febos.

Virtual attendees may join us via Zoom

In addition to his latest book, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories, Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Truth About Celia; the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer; the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery; and a memoir of his...

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Candice Wuehle to celebrate the release of her new novel Monarch.

Masks are required to attend this in-person event. 

Kerensa Cadenas of Thrillist says of the book,  "Candice Wuehle had me at 'Jon Benet Ramsey.' The poet's new novel follows a former child pageant star as she discovers ties to her previous glory and a deep state government program. Add an occult wellness guru to the mix, a heaping of mommy issues, and a queer romance for taste...

This spring, as part of the University of Iowa’s 175th anniversary, the Stanley Reads book club will be reading A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. A Thousand Acres won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.

Please register to join: https://tinyurl.com/1000acres. 

Stanley Reads will meet at 7:00 p.m.on three Mondays: February 21, March 21, and April 25.

Programs will take place over Zoom with closed-captioning available. To...

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Lee Cole to celebrate the release of his new novel Groundskeeping

To join this virtual event, register here.

Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn, says of the book, “Scrupulously perceptive . . . Groundskeeping is filled with close observation, detailed shading. It is an absorbing love story, but it is also an examination of class in America, and it captures with sharp insight a moment in recent history.”

Lee Cole was born and grew up in rural...