ICPL Presentations Spring 2022

To watch these ICPL (Iowa City Public Library) panel discussions in real time, please visit our event listings >

For video recordings of these presentations, visit the  IWP Iowa City Public Library (ICPL) Library Channel >

Name links below link to a pdf of a paper on the panel topic by each writer-in-residence:

 

[04/01/22] • [the specter of professionalization]

[04/07/22] • [writing the not-self]

[04/15/22] • [cultures in conflict]

[04/22/22] • [nature on edge]

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Happening Now

  • Jennifer Feeley’s translation of Tongueless, Lau Yee-wa’s thriller sketching Hong Kong’s slide toward linguistic totalitarianism, is forthcoming from Feminist Press.

  • In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."

  • Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

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