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Iowa City Book Festival & Geneva Lecture Series | Marilynne Robinson and Nicholas Kristof promotional image

Iowa City Book Festival & Geneva Lecture Series | Marilynne Robinson and Nicholas Kristof

Monday, October 19, 2026 7:00pm
Macbride Hall

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How Can We Hope When It All Feels Hopeless? An evening with Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack. Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, while Home received the Orange Prize for Fiction and Lila won the National Book Critics...

Iowa City Book Festival | Mark Leidner - 'Elegy for Pangaea' promotional image

Iowa City Book Festival | Mark Leidner - 'Elegy for Pangaea'

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Mark Leidner’s third poetry collection, 'Elegy for Pangaea', is as funny, strange, and epic as his two previous collections
Literary Legends Featuring Pulitzer Prize Winner Yiyun Li (00MS, 05MFA) promotional image

Literary Legends Featuring Pulitzer Prize Winner Yiyun Li (00MS, 05MFA)

Friday, October 23, 2026 7:30pm
The University of Iowa - The Levitt Center for University Advancement
2026 Literary Legends Featuring Pulitzer Prize winner Yiyun Li (00MS, 05MFA)
Iowa City Book Festival | Patricia Foster: 'A Marriage in Startled Air' promotional image

Iowa City Book Festival | Patricia Foster: 'A Marriage in Startled Air'

Saturday, October 24, 2026 11:30am
Prairie Lights Books
In 'A Marriage in Startled Air', Patricia Foster shares the story of how the diagnosis of her husband’s rare cancer changed the dynamics of their marriage and opened the door to the hidden world of his childhood
Iowa City Book Festival | Harriet Clark: 'The Hill' promotional image

Iowa City Book Festival | Harriet Clark: 'The Hill'

Saturday, October 24, 2026 2:30pm
Prairie Lights Books
The Iowa City Book Festival presents: Harriet Clark, reading from her debut novel, 'The Hill'
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop promotional image

Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Sunday, October 25, 2026 2:30pm to 4:15pm
Stanley Museum of Art

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. Teen and adult writers in all genres are welcome.

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Iowa City Book Festival | Tree Tour: Literary Grove at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop promotional image

Iowa City Book Festival | Tree Tour: Literary Grove at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Monday, October 19, 2026 12:00pm
Dey House

Explore the Literary Grove with University of Iowa Arborist Andy Dahl
Take a guided stroll through the Literary Grove, where each tree has a story to tell. Arborist Andy Dahl will share the unique histories and literary connections of these remarkable trees, many linked to celebrated authors from the world-renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Live from Prairie Lights | Erika Meitner & Kiki Petrosino — 'Assembled Audience' & 'Perfect Italian' promotional image

Live from Prairie Lights | Erika Meitner & Kiki Petrosino — 'Assembled Audience' & 'Perfect Italian'

Thursday, October 15, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Erika Meitner & Workshop alumnus Kiki Petrosino will read from their new books, 'Assembled Audience' and 'Perfect Italian'

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