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Conversation: The Art of Adaptation w/ Kerry Howley and Susanna Fogel

Friday, October 18, 2024 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building

Iowa City Book Festival | Panel Discussion: Sense of Place

Saturday, October 19, 2024 10:00am
Iowa City Senior Center
In this panel, writers will discuss place and setting as key in many kinds of writing. They will explore the following questions: How do you convey a sense of place or paint a unique landscape? In what ways does location contribute to your writing? Can a literary work truly be "universal," or will place always determine how a piece is understood? Featuring: Forrest Gander, Catarina Gomes (International Writing Program), Nurit Kasztelan (International Writing Program), Chris Offutt, and Pervin...

Iowa City Book Festival | Elizabeth Willis 'Liontaming in America'

Saturday, October 19, 2024 12:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
At Noon, The Iowa City Book Festival Presents Writers’ Workshop Faculty member Elizabeth Willis, who will read from Liontaming in America (New Directions, 2024), a hybrid work engaged with American belief and relationship structures, theatre, activism, and film. This work has been Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. "In this vast and masterful book, Elizabeth Willis lays personal claim to the terror unleashed by John Winthrop’s prophecy ‘wee shall be made a story.’ And it’s...
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Rita Dove

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1977.

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BA in Screenwriting

Students are instructed on practical skills and knowledge needed to become successful members of the screenwriting industry!

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