Please join us with Writers @ Grinnell for a conversation between Made for Love author Alissa Nutting, showrunner Christina Lee, and Dean Bakopolous about the adaptation of the novel to TV. HBO Max’s new hit series Made for Love, was co-created by Assistant Professor of English Alissa Nutting (executive producer) who shepherded the TV adaptation of her acclaimed 2017 novel of the same name alongside showrunner Christina Lee (Search Party). Starring Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Ray Romano...

Please join us to celebrate the release of Iowa City author Sarah Prineas’ new middle grade outer-space adventure, Trouble in the Stars. Sarah will be joined in conversation by author Jenn Reese. Sarah Prineas’s new book is an action-packed, funny, and heartwarming outer-space adventure about a troublesome little shape-shifter on the run from the law. Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Geoff Rodkey! Trouble knows two things: they are a shapeshifter, and they are running from something--but...

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Kim Addonizio and Kate Lebo to celebrate the release of their new books, Now We're Getting Somewhere and The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, writing for The New York Times, says, ‘Kim Addonizio’s poetry gives me physical energy, particularly ‘For Desire’ and 'What Do Women Want?' – Kim Addonizio’seighth poetry collection isNow We’re GettingSomewhere(W.W. Norton,March 2021). She has...

Please join us to celebrate the release of The Last Watch with science fiction author J.S. Dewes, with a reading and conversation with Mary Robinette Kowal. Publishers Weekly calls the book a, "Gripping space opera debut." Library Journal, starred review, “An exciting, fast-paced ride around the edges of the universe.” After graduating from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in film production, J. S. Dewes went on to serve as cinematographer for independent films, write, produce, and shoot...

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright...

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Andrea Bajani to celebrate the release of If You Kept a Record of Sins. He will be joined in conversation with poet and memoirist Nick Flynn. Anderson Tepper, The New York Times calls If You Kept a Record of Sins, "A slim, astonishing book . . . Bajani etches an impressionistic portrait of a young man — like the foreign city outside his window — trapped in a shadow land between past and present.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) says, “After...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with visiting author, Ada Limón. Ada Limón, a current Guggenheim fellow, is the author of five poetry collections, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her fourth book, Bright Dead Things was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low...

Please join us to celebrate the release of Maria Kuznetsova's Something Unbelievable with a reading and conversation with fellow Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, Anna Bruno.   Julia Phillips, author of National Book Award Finalist Disappearing Earth says of the book, "Something Unbelievable gives you things hilarious, things heartbreaking, things gorgeous and perfect and irresistible on every page. This novel crosses generations, oceans, and empires but never misses a step. It is one more...

The Writers' Workshop presents a Fiction Forum, with Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Kelly Link Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and Get in Trouble. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She and Gavin J. Grant...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Kelly Link, in conversation with Writers' Workshop alumnus, Kevin Brockmeier. Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and Get in Trouble. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and has received a grant from the...

Ed Pavlić and Derrick Harriell will join us as part of the Writers @ Grinnell reading series, hosted by Dean Bakopoulos. Ed Pavlić is the author of several poetry collections including Let It Be Broke, and Visiting Hours at the Color Line, winner of the 2013 National Poetry Series.   Pavlić is well known for his nonfiction/critical work, particularly ‘Who Can Afford to Improvise?’: James Baldwin and Black Music and Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Literary Culture...

To join this virtual event, register here. Pioneering anthropologist and founder of LGBTQ studies, Esther Newton reads from her latest book, My Butch Career: A Memoir, published by Duke University Press in 2018. As Cassandra Langer wrote in the Gay and Lesbian Review, “My Butch Career joins a distinguished list of lesbian herstories that includes Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues and Lillian Faderman’s Naked in the Promised Land.  It is for readers interested in the psychological and cultural...

Please join us for a reading and conversation with poets Spencer Reece and Gregory Pardlo, to celebrate the release of Spencer Reese's The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Poet's Memoir. Kirkus Reviews, starred review says of the book, “In a resonant, deeply moving memoir, award-winning poet Reece (b. 1963) reflects on love, spirituality, family, and his torments over his sexual identity. … A beautifully written, engrossing narrative.” Carolyn Forché, poet and author of What You Have Heard Is True: A...

Please join us for a virtual event to celebrate the release of Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard and Girlhood by  Melissa Febos, with a reading and conversation between the two authors. To join this virtual event, register here. Publishers Weekly (starred review) calls Festival Days, “Imaginative and precise… These sharp essays cement Beard’s reputation as a master of the form… [she] can evoke many emotions in a single stroke."  Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties and In...

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom Please join us with the Nonfiction Writing Program to welcome Matthew Gavin Frank to read from his latest book, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers, as part of The Krause Series of Contemporary Nonfiction.  He will be introduced by current NWP student Jonathan Gleason. To join this virtual event, register here. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil says of Flight of the Diamond Smugglers, “Unforgettable. . . . An outstanding adventure in its lyrical, utterly compelling, and...

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom Please join us to celebrate the paperback release of Adrienne Raphel's book, Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them. Adrienne Raphel will be joined by fellow Iowa Writers' Workshop alum, Micah Bateman. To join this virtual event, register here. The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice, says of the book, “This cultural and personal history of crosswords and their fans, written by an aficionado...

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom Please join us to celebrate the release of Kevin Brockmeier's new collection of stories, The Ghost Variations for a reading and conversation with Anjali Sachdeva. To join this virtual event, register here. Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, calls the book: “A teeming throng of stories in miniature in my favorite mode by one of my favorite writers. Brockmeier’s ghosts range from the wistful to the terrifying—I could only wish that there were one hundred more.”...

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom Please join us to celebrate the release of Tapestry with author and University of Iowa professor Loren Glass, in conversation with NPR Music Critic and Correspondent, Ann Powers To join this virtual event, register here. Carole King's Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosis of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sound and scene. And these two elements of the album's historic significance are closely related insofar as the...

Please join us for a reading to celebrate the release of Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is with author Gretel Ehrlich, in conversation with poet and International Writing Prigram director, Christopher Merrill. To join this virtual event, register here. A starred Kirkus Review calls the book "An intimate, engaging memoir . . . In lush, evocative prose, Ehrlich details some breathtakingly perilous journeys . . . A vigorous plea for responsible environmental stewardship and a treat for all...

International Writing Program / Department of Dance: Eyes Closed Eyes Open As we strive toward ideals of justice and equity, diversity, and radical inclusion, we find ourselves in a precarious moment, pulled simultaneously by hope and trepidation, seeking possibility while recognizing the threats that stand in our way. This duality is reflected in the prompt given to writers and dance-makers for their collaboration: when I close my eyes, I see the future / when I see the future, I close my eyes...

Starting on February 12th and continuing through the month, Iowa Arts is sponsoring a series of events that bring arts and humanities together to explore a range of timely issues. The initiative, called “Art and the Pursuit of Social Justice,” includes work framed by discussions to place them in a social context from the The Departments of Cinematic Arts, Dance, English, Theatre Arts, the School of Music, the International Writing Program, the Nonfiction Writing Program, and the UI Libraries...

Starting on February 12th and continuing through the month, Iowa Arts is sponsoring a series of events that bring arts and humanities together to explore a range of timely issues. The initiative, called “Art and the Pursuit of Social Justice,” includes work framed by discussions to place them in a social context from the The Departments of Cinematic Arts, Dance, English, Theatre Arts, the School of Music, the International Writing Program, the Nonfiction Writing Program, and the UI Libraries...

Starting on February 12th and continuing through the month, Iowa Arts is sponsoring a series of events that bring arts and humanities together to explore a range of timely issues. The initiative, called “Art and the Pursuit of Social Justice,” includes work framed by discussions to place them in a social context from the The Departments of Cinematic Arts, Dance, English, Theatre Arts, the School of Music, the International Writing Program, the Nonfiction Writing Program, and the UI Libraries...

Starting on February 12th and continuing through the month, Iowa Arts is sponsoring a series of events that bring arts and humanities together to explore a range of timely issues. The initiative, called “Art and the Pursuit of Social Justice,” includes work framed by discussions to place them in a social context from the The Departments of Cinematic Arts, Dance, English, Theatre Arts, the School of Music, the International Writing Program, the Nonfiction Writing Program, and the UI Libraries...

On Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020, the University of Iowa Libraries will partner with national organizations to present the first annual Ray Bradbury Read-A-Thon. During this four-hour online event, a diverse group of celebrities and Bradbury experts, including Peter Balestrieri, curator of science fiction and popular culture collections at the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections & Archives, will present a virtual reading of Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451 streamed over YouTube...