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Simone White Reading
Thursday, October 27, 2022 8:00pm
Dey House

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Simone White.

Simone White is the author of the full-length collections House Envy of All the World (2010), and or, on being the other woman (2022), as well as the chapbooks Dolly (2008) and Unrest (2013). Her work has been praised for its innovative complexity, allusive song, and “lyric deconstruction of desire, entitlement, blackness, the domestic, language and diction,” in the words of Anna Moschovakis. White has received fellowships from Cave...

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Live from Prairie Lights | Adam Soto in conversation with Nickolas Butler
Thursday, October 27, 2022 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Adam Soto in celebration of the release of his book Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep: Ghost Stories (Astra House, 2022). He will be joined in conversation by Nickolas Butler.

Adam Soto is the author of This Weightless World, longlisted for Best Debut Novel 2021 by Locus Magazine, and Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep: Ghost Stories. A former Michener-Copernicus Foundation Fellow, he holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He...

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Live from Prairie Lights | Mary Helen Stefaniak
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Mary Helen Stefaniak in celebration of the release of her book The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life (University of Iowa Press, 2022). 

Mary Helen Stefaniak is a writer of fiction and essays whose work has appeared in many publications, including The Iowa Review, EPOCH, The Yale Review, AGNI, and The Antioch Review, and in several anthologies, including New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2000 & 2006 (Algonquin Books)...

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Margaret Ross and Anthony Marra Reading
Thursday, October 20, 2022 8:00pm
Dey House

Please join us for a reading with Writers' Workshop visiting instructors, Margaret Ross and Anthony Marra.

Anthony Marra is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, as well as the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction.

Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare. Her poems and translations have appeared in The New Republic...