Iowa Writers’ Workshop
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The Program in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa
Thursday! December 4 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Kevin Moffett will read from his longlisted National Book Award debut novel, 'Only Son', and be joined in conversation by Matthew Vollmer events.uiowa.edu/event/35190
December 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thursday! December 4 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Kevin Moffett will read from his longlisted National Book Award debut novel, 'Only Son', and be joined in conversation by Matthew Vollmer events.uiowa.edu/event/35190
Flash fiction by Carol M. Quinn: "Clean" | via Lost Balloon lost-balloon.com/2025/11/12/c...
Clean by Carol M. Quinn
Doreen forces thick, unwaxed floss between your molars, between your bicuspids and your canines. She is always honest, no messing around, and she needs you to hear this: even two, three times a day…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Flash fiction by Carol M. Quinn: "Clean" | via Lost Balloon lost-balloon.com/2025/11/12/c...
Blog interview with Tim Brady: "History Happy Hour Episode 275: Saving the Jews of Denmark" historyhappyhour.com/blog/history...
History Happy Hour Episode 275: Saving the Jews of Denmark | History Happy Hour
This Week on History Happy Hour: In September 1943, the people of Denmark banded together to rescue nearly all of their Jewish citizens from a NAZI roundup by f
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December 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Blog interview with Tim Brady: "History Happy Hour Episode 275: Saving the Jews of Denmark" historyhappyhour.com/blog/history...
Poetry by KB Kinkel, "LOSS [AMBIGUOUS]" | via 'The Paddock Review' [from the award-winning chapbook 'Blood Machine' by KB Kinkel “2025 Open Chapbook Competition winner” (Finishing Line Press)] paddockreview.com/2025/11/19/a...
A Poem by KB Kinkel
LOSS [AMBIGUOUS] …. When you call to the dead, who answers? Do you call upon space or earth’s deep places? To the bottom of a well? Or down below the sea? Are you still her child if she…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Poetry by KB Kinkel, "LOSS [AMBIGUOUS]" | via 'The Paddock Review' [from the award-winning chapbook 'Blood Machine' by KB Kinkel “2025 Open Chapbook Competition winner” (Finishing Line Press)] paddockreview.com/2025/11/19/a...
Naomi Kim Eagleson on The Four Phases of Book Editing | on Talking Book Publishing podcast talkingbookpublishing.today/season-5-epi...
Talking Book PublishingA Podcast with Kathleen Kaiser and Adanna MoriartySeason 5 | Episode 10 • Naomi Eagleson
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December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Naomi Kim Eagleson on The Four Phases of Book Editing | on Talking Book Publishing podcast talkingbookpublishing.today/season-5-epi...
Angela Flournoy in Baltimore, MD on February 7th calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/booklo...
Booklovers' Breakfast featuring Angela Flournoy
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December 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Angela Flournoy in Baltimore, MD on February 7th calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/booklo...
Dan Wriggins in Asheville, NC on February 1st with band, Friendship w/ Natalie Jane Hill www.thegreyeagle.com/event/friend...
Friendship w/ Natalie Jane Hill | The Grey Eagle
ALL AGESSTANDING ROOM ONLY FRIENDSHIP Music for sleeping and waking, walking and driving, hunting and fishing, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in elevators, not great for...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Dan Wriggins in Asheville, NC on February 1st with band, Friendship w/ Natalie Jane Hill www.thegreyeagle.com/event/friend...
Belated congratulations to Jessica Laser for 'The Goner School,' longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize earlier this year griffinpoetryprize.com/poet/jessica...
Jessica Laser - Griffin Poetry Prize
Jessica Laser was born and raised in Chicago. She is the author of three poetry collections, including The Goner School, Planet Drill, winner of Futurepoem Books’ Other Futures Award, and Sergei Kuzmi...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Belated congratulations to Jessica Laser for 'The Goner School,' longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize earlier this year griffinpoetryprize.com/poet/jessica...
Three Poems by Hannah Piette: "Uncle Vanya," "Hannah Daughter," and "Screen Memory" | via 'Cleveland Review of Books' website clereviewofbooks.com/three-poems-2/
Three Poems - Cleveland Review of Books
Forests moderate speech / By way of the soil.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Three Poems by Hannah Piette: "Uncle Vanya," "Hannah Daughter," and "Screen Memory" | via 'Cleveland Review of Books' website clereviewofbooks.com/three-poems-2/
Pepper Coast Library Project fundraiser organized by Workshop alum, Jeremy Teddy Karn, "to establish free, modern reading rooms in and around Monrovia [Liberia] where children and students can access books, discover literature, and grow their imaginations" www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
Donate to Pepper Coast Mag's Library Project in Liberia, organized by Jeremy Karn
My name is Jeremy Teddy Karn . I am a Liberian poet, a graduate from t… Jeremy Karn needs your support for Pepper Coast Mag's Library Project in Liberia
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December 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Pepper Coast Library Project fundraiser organized by Workshop alum, Jeremy Teddy Karn, "to establish free, modern reading rooms in and around Monrovia [Liberia] where children and students can access books, discover literature, and grow their imaginations" www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
Three Poems by Mathilde Merouani: "Plaque on Bench," "Absorbed," and "Against Your Ghost" | 'River Styx' online www.riverstyx.org/poetry/mathi...
Three Poems by Mathilde Merouani — River Styx Magazine
“They come to find me, / the eyes of carps.”
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December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Three Poems by Mathilde Merouani: "Plaque on Bench," "Absorbed," and "Against Your Ghost" | 'River Styx' online www.riverstyx.org/poetry/mathi...
Poetry by Ted Mathys, "Wolf Lichen" | 'North American Review' northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
Wolf Lichen | North American Review
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December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Poetry by Ted Mathys, "Wolf Lichen" | 'North American Review' northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
"Lee Cole Bonus - how Lee found old books at his grandparents to build his characters and worlds" | Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers podcast ripplingpages.podbean.com/e/lee-cole-b...
Lee Cole Bonus - how Lee found old books at his grandparents to build his characters and worlds | Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers
Welcome to some bonus content with Lee Cole, and we’re talking about how he used an old book he found at his grandparents to help build the world and characters in his novels.
Plus, you’re going to h...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Lee Cole Bonus - how Lee found old books at his grandparents to build his characters and worlds" | Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers podcast ripplingpages.podbean.com/e/lee-cole-b...
"Lee Cole on the ethics of writing about home, and the people who stay and leave small towns" | Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers podcast ripplingpages.podbean.com/e/lee-cole/
Lee Cole on the ethics of writing about home, and the people who stay and leave small towns | Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers
Welcome to the latest episode of the Rippling Pages. I’m having a coffee with Lee Cole, the American writer from Kentucky. And we’re talking about balancing the feelings and ethics of writing about ho...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Lee Cole on the ethics of writing about home, and the people who stay and leave small towns" | Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers podcast ripplingpages.podbean.com/e/lee-cole/
Poetry by Stella Wong, "Inference," | 'Split Lip Magazine' splitlipthemag.com/poetry/1125/...
Inference — Split Lip Magazine
You offer me an English-language Qur’an. Thanks
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December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Poetry by Stella Wong, "Inference," | 'Split Lip Magazine' splitlipthemag.com/poetry/1125/...
"Story, Culture & the Common Good with Marilynne Robinson" The Trinity Forum podcast from last August ttf.org/podcasts/epi...
Episode 122 | Story, Culture & the Common Good with Marilynne Robinson - The Trinity Forum
In this episode, Marilynne Robinson reflects on the art of writing as a means of exploring truth and engaging questions around learning to live well, to love others, and to create a home and community...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"Story, Culture & the Common Good with Marilynne Robinson" The Trinity Forum podcast from last August ttf.org/podcasts/epi...
"Jen Percy on the Subversive Possibilities of Structure"
When Form Follows Function | Literary Hub
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When Form Follows Function | Literary Hub
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Jen Percy on the Subversive Possibilities of Structure
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I’m fascinated by form and function. I always want to know if there’s any way structure can support the themes, ideas, or …
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December 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"Jen Percy on the Subversive Possibilities of Structure"
When Form Follows Function | Literary Hub
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When Form Follows Function | Literary Hub
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Andrew Ridker, teaching a 9-week workshop in Brooklyn, NY, January 7 to March 4 www.andrewridker.com/prospect-wri...
Andrew Ridker
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December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Andrew Ridker, teaching a 9-week workshop in Brooklyn, NY, January 7 to March 4 www.andrewridker.com/prospect-wri...
"Battered Heart" | Poetry Foundation article on Ted Geltner's 'Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures', a new biography of Denis Johnson (University of Iowa Press, 2025) www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/174...
Battered Heart
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Battered Heart" | Poetry Foundation article on Ted Geltner's 'Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures', a new biography of Denis Johnson (University of Iowa Press, 2025) www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/174...
"Former Iowa Writers’ Workshop professor, poet wins 2025 Paul Engle Prize from Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature" | 'The Gazette' [Cedar Rapids, IA] www.thegazette.com/people-place...
This year's Paul Engle Prize goes to a former professor whose work transcends boundaries
In an increasingly insular world, a former Iowa Writers' Workshop professor is being recognized for a lifetime of work that transcends literary boundaries.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Former Iowa Writers’ Workshop professor, poet wins 2025 Paul Engle Prize from Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature" | 'The Gazette' [Cedar Rapids, IA] www.thegazette.com/people-place...
Tuesday! November 18 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Othuke Umukoro will read from his debut poetry collection, 'Fenestration' in conversation with Reyumeh Ejue events.uiowa.edu/event/35188/
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Tuesday! November 18 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Othuke Umukoro will read from his debut poetry collection, 'Fenestration' in conversation with Reyumeh Ejue events.uiowa.edu/event/35188/
Tonight! 11/17 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Jen Percy will read from 'Girls Play Dead', joined in conversation by Kerry Howley events.uiowa.edu/event/35042
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Tonight! 11/17 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Jen Percy will read from 'Girls Play Dead', joined in conversation by Kerry Howley events.uiowa.edu/event/35042
Today! At 12:30 p.m. in the front foyer at Dey House, Cole Swensen, poet, former Workshop faculty member and recipient, this past weekend, of the Paul Engle Prize, will visit to chat and answer questions
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Today! At 12:30 p.m. in the front foyer at Dey House, Cole Swensen, poet, former Workshop faculty member and recipient, this past weekend, of the Paul Engle Prize, will visit to chat and answer questions
Saturday! 11/15 at 4 p.m., Shane McCrae will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House events.uiowa.edu/event/35167
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Saturday! 11/15 at 4 p.m., Shane McCrae will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House events.uiowa.edu/event/35167
Thursday! 11/13, 5:30 p.m. at Prairie Lights bookstore, Mic Check Poetry Fest will host a moderated discussion between three poetry performance artists: Workshop Professor of Poetry, Tracie Morris; MFA candidate, Warren C. Longmire; and Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey events.uiowa.edu/event/35041
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thursday! 11/13, 5:30 p.m. at Prairie Lights bookstore, Mic Check Poetry Fest will host a moderated discussion between three poetry performance artists: Workshop Professor of Poetry, Tracie Morris; MFA candidate, Warren C. Longmire; and Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey events.uiowa.edu/event/35041