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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 1d

Today! 10/7 at 1 p.m. in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Dey House/Glenn Schaeffer Library, the Harlem Quartet will give an intimate, hour-long afternoon concert events.uiowa.edu/event/33067

Harlem quartet members posed with their instruments. Hancher Auditorium flourish in bottom right corner above the numbers 25 and 26, representing the season years

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 20d

it feels absolutely wild to be co-founding an arts collective with everything going on right now, but I truly believe art is liberation! we need spaces where we can express ourselves, where we can learn, grow, and create as a community. please help spread the word 🙏

www.nightjarartscollective.com

Nightjar Arts Collective

Nightjar Arts Collective is a communal third place that supports and cultivates local artists, writers, and activists. At Nightjar, we believe art can empower, transform, agitate, speak truth, and fig...

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 9d

Tonight! 9/29 at 7pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, Stephen Starring Grant will read from and talk with Daniel Khalastchi about his new memoir, 'Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home' events.uiowa.edu/event/34093

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 14d

Join us tonight at 7 pm at the Iowa City Public Library for a reading with Writers' Workshop alum Elin Hilderbrand and conversation with Lan Samantha Chang!

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 14d

Thursday, 9/25 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, poet CA Conrad will read from their new book from Wave Books, 'Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return' events.uiowa.edu/event/33545

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 14d

Tonight! Wednesday, 9/24, 7PM at the Iowa City Public Library, Elin Hilderbrand will read from her newest book, 'The Academy', joined in conversation by Writers' Workshop director, Lan Samantha Chang events.uiowa.edu/event/33549

Portrait of Elin Hilderbrand at far left on poster with calligraphic script spelling out her name on the left. A smaller portrait of Lan Samantha Chang is in the center tilted below the author's name.

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Sheila Black @sheilafionab.bsky.social · 15d

Casually dropping this--faculty list for the 2025 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, Oct 9-11 on the beautiful very treed campus of ASU Tempe. Learn more at piper.asu.edu/conference#a.... Only seven more days!

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 15d

Tonight! Tuesday, 9/23 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Adedayo Agarau will read from 'The Years of Blood', joined in conversation by fellow IWW grad and poet, Othuke Umukoro events.uiowa.edu/event/33546

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 16d

Tonight! 9/22, 5:30 p.m. at Shambaugh House, the International Writing Program and the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies are sponsoring Text and Textures: Women Creating Books with Bite, a conversation with Pervin Saket & Diane Vadino led by Devanshi Khetarpal events.uiowa.edu/event/34250

Poster with silhouettes of three figures celebrating in the foreground of a sunset as the background, with textual event information overlaid

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

And Kevin Moffett, for 'Only Son' and Joy Williams, for 'The Pelican Child', in fiction!

Book covers for 'Only Son', by Moffett and 'The Pelican Child', by Williams

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

"4 Iowa alums longlisted for National Book Award" | via Iowa Now now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/09...

4 Iowa alums longlisted for National Book Award

Four University of Iowa graduates — Angela Flournoy, Kevin Moffett, Joy Williams, and Yiyun Li — are listed among the authors being considered for the prestigious National Book Award. Finalists are an...

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

Alexia Arthurs at Lewis & Clark in Portland, OR on October 30 [w/ Rick Barot and Elizabeth Willis on deck for next year] college.lclark.edu/live/news/56...

2025-2026 Visiting Writers Series Announced

Please save the dates, spread the word, and join us in welcoming these six fine writers to our 2025-26 Visiting Writing Series. Author bios below. Th...

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

Iowa undergraduate student, Ben Ahlrichs' poem, "Abderus on Heracles," has been been selected as the winner of The Iowa Review's David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize iowareview.org/blog/2025-wi...

The 2025 Winner of the David Hamilton Award Undergraduate Creative Writing Award | The Iowa Review

Congratulations to Ben Ahlrichs, whose poem "Abderus on Heracles" has been been selected as the winner of the The Iowa Review's David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize. This prize is spons...

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

Monica West leading a 12-wk virtual writing class, starting on October 8th sackettworkshop.com/writing/2025...

12-wk VIRTUAL Manuscript Generator I (novels, memoirs, story & essay collections) – begins 10.8.25

Dates: begins October 8, 2025 Instructor: Monica West Location: Meetings via video every OTHER Wednesday 7-9pm ET Fee: $1150 | $1050 for returning Sackett writers This generative class open to novelis...

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

Keija Parssinen leading an online 8-week MFA Application Prep class [started September 16] for Sackett Street Writers' Workshop
sackettworkshop.com/writing/2025...

8-week MFA Application Prep Workshop (fiction & nonfiction) – begins 9.16.25

2 spots available

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

Julia Fierro leading an 20-week virtual writing class, starting on October 8th sackettworkshop.com/writing/2025...

20-wk VIRTUAL Manuscript Generator II (novels, memoirs, story & essay collections) – begins 10.8.25

2 spots available

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

Kyle McCarthy leading an 8-week online writing class [started on 9/18] sackettworkshop.com/writing/2025...

8-week Master Fiction – begins 9.18.25 – Park Slope

1 spot available

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

Free Generative Writing Workshop led by Warren C. Longmire
this weekend, Sunday, September 21, 5:30-7 pm CT, online or in person [Iowa City] iowacitypoetry.com/free-gen/fre...

Free Gen for September: Warren C. Longmire

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

"Winners named in City of Literature student essay contest" earlier this month | Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization news www.iowacityofliterature.org/winners-name...

Winners named in City of Literature student essay contest - Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature

Iowa City student wins top prize of one year of free tuition at the University of Iowa; runners up from Ankeny, Bettendorf, and Riverside win scholarships Contest will be open [...]Read More...

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

Iowa City Public Library is holding a Let's Talk Books event, with discussion focusing on books by Workshop writers, Tuesday, September 23, from 7-8 p.m. CT online via Zoom www.icpl.org/events/63103...

Let's Talk Books: Writers from the UI Writers Workshop | Iowa City Public Library

The Iowa Writers Workshop began at the University of Iowa in 1936 and has produced many well known writers. In the last 80 years there are hundreds of published works by graduates of the Workshop in a...

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to past Workshop faculty member, Cole Swenson, named the 14th recipient of the Paul Engle Prize, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organizaton www.iowacityofliterature.org/cole-swensen...

Cole Swensen named 2025 Paul Engle Prize winner - Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature

Cole Swensen has been named the 14th recipient of the Paul Engle Prize, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization. The prize, established in 2011, honors an [...]Read More...

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 20d

I'll be moderating this Brooklyn Bookfest panel with novelists @jasondiamond.bsky.social, Denne Michele Norris and @katiekitamura.bsky.social. I hope you can join us.

Book Post @bookpostusa.bsky.social · 21d

Alexander Chee will be part of
"Family, Unraveled" on Sept 21 at 4:30 PM.

"All families are complicated, with legacy, personal choices, and societal expectations shaping or breaking the bonds that hold them together."

@alexanderchee.bsky.social

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Alexander Chee - Brooklyn Book Festival

Discover the literary work of Alexander Chee.

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 20d

London! 🇬🇧 So excited to be coming to the UK in October for the UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life (Europa Editions)! On October 9, I’ll be reading & talking with author Curtis Garner at Brick Lane Bookshop in London. 7 PM. Details here: bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...

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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 20d

Welcome, architects of the weird! Are you ready to haunt your readers? This class will give you all the tools you need to build a haunted house from the ground up.

Online, October 16.

Register now: buff.ly/jpQgNzg

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Genre Series: How to Build a Haunted House with Ruth Joffre - StoryStudio Chicago

Welcome, architects of the weird! Are you ready to haunt your readers? This class will give you all the tools you need to build a haunted house from the ground up.

www.storystudiochicago.org

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Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social · 21d

Thursday! September 18 at 8 p.m., the Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Rae Armantrout, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/ Dey House. A Q&A session will follow, on Friday, 9/19 at 12:30 p.m. events.uiowa.edu/event/33550

Rae Armantrout's portrait cropped inside a diagonal section of a vertical event poster, with the author's name in calligraphic script below.

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