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Write at the Stanley

Sunday, January 26, 2025 2:00pm to 4:15pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry...

Live from Prairie Lights | Tramaine Suubi

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Tramaine Suubi will read from her debut book of poetry, phases. Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer from Kampala, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has published creative writing in 16 literary anthologies, magazines, journals, and reviews — and counting. Her debut full-length poetry collection titled phases, was published in January 2025 by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins. Her second full-length poetry collection titled stages, is forthcoming in January 2026. Tramaine...

Live from Prairie Lights | Caitlin Roach in conversation with Rachel Yoder

Thursday, February 6, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum, Caitlin Roach will read from her new book of poetry, Surveille, in conversation with Rachel Yoder. Caitlin Roach is a queer poet from Southern California. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, jubilat, Colorado Review, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Daily, Tin House, and The Iowa Review, among other journals. Her work has received prizes and recognition from the Granum Foundation, the W.B. Yeats Society of New York for the Yeats Poetry Prize, Narrative...
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Art & Write Night

Friday, February 7, 2025 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...

Live from Prairie Lights | Steven Duong

Friday, February 21, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum, Steven Duong will read from his debut book of poetry, At the End of the World There is a Pond. Steven Duong is a writer from San Diego. He is the author of At the End of the World There is a Pond, published by W. W. Norton in January 2025. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Guernica, and the Yale Review. His short fiction is published in Catapult, The Drift, and The Best American Short Stories 2024. The recipient of fellowships from The Academy...
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Write at the Stanley

Sunday, February 23, 2025 2:00pm to 4:15pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry...

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48-Hour Flash Writing Contest | Write Now

Friday, January 17 4:00pm to Sunday, January 19, 2025 4:00pm
Virtual
Mark your calendars for our UI Alumni and Friends Flash Writing Contest—a free, online short story competition for a variety of age groups. You don’t have be an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate or an accomplished author to join in the fun. The contest begins on Friday, Jan. 17, 2024, at 4 p.m. CST, and runs through Sunday, Jan. 19, 2024, at 4 p.m. CST. At the contest's start, we'll provide a genre, character, and specific object to incorporate into your story. The rest is up to you! Submissions...
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Washington Writers Workshop: Adiah Siler at the Washington, IA Public Library

Saturday, January 11, 2025 10:00am
Washington Public Library
The Washington Public Library will be holding its next Washington Writers Workshop this Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. This workshop will feature a presentation on craft by visiting writer, Adiah Siler, during the first hour. We will workshop submissions of participants during the second hour. Free and open to adults and teens. Adiah Siler is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she’s utilizing her work to explore themes of identity and marginalization through speculative...
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