Books and Writing

Author Visit: Jerry Harrington | Thunder from the Prairie: The Life of Harold E. Hughes

Author Jerry Harrington will present on the life of former Iowa Governor and US Senator, Harold E. Hughes.

Hughes was an impactful actor within the rise of postwar American liberalism, the...

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Iowa City Community School District Visiting Author: Stacy McAnulty

The Visiting Author program is a targeted program the ICCSD Foundation supports. In partnership with Hills Bank’s Community Reading Month, two book authors are selected each year to visit the...

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2023 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel: Images of America

Each of the International Writing Program's Fall Residencies ends with an "Images of America" panel wherein the writers speak on their time in Iowa and the U.S. more generally, what...

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2023 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel: Writing Love in the Age of Irony

A conversation between four IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Writing Love in the Age of Irony," followed by Q&A.
Wong Yi Eva (fiction writer, essayist,...

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2023 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel: Must a Migrant Be Grateful?

A conversation between three IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Must a Migrant Be Grateful?," followed by Q&A.
Brenda Navarro (fiction writer, editor; Spain/...

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Writing Across the Sinosphere: Bilingual Reading | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

The UI International Writing Program and the Center for Asian Pacific Studies will be hosting a bilingual reading featuring 2023 Fall residents Kevin Chen (Taiwan), Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Wong Yi...

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Poetry in Public with the Iowa Student Poet Ambassador | Iowa City Book Festival 2023

Poetry in Public celebrates our community’s rich literary tradition and local writing talent by displaying poems by writers of all ages. Hear from some of the 2023 Selected Poets. Also on the bill...

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Patchwork: A Reading of Literary Translation | Iowa City Book Festival 2023

In every corner of this universe, there is a story waiting to be heard. Join the students of the Literary Translation MFA as they gather and read excerpts from their translations of world...

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Author Visit: Nathan Hill | Iowa City Book Festival 2023

Nathan Hill’s best-selling debut novel, The Nix, was named the number one book of 2016 by Entertainment Weekly and one of the year’s best books by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR,...

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Author Visit: Kristen Roupenian | Iowa City Book Festival 2023

Kristen Roupenian holds a PhD in English from Harvard, an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and a BA from Barnard College. She is the author of the short...

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