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Residency Events at a Glance

Please click each heading for our usual Fall Residency events schedule. Our next Residency is scheduled for spring of 2021, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, so check back in early 2021. We will begin introducing the Spring '21 Residents on @UIIWP social media – follow us on IWP's Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter – plus occasional virtual IWP events, so stay tuned! To get in the loop, please sign up for our email list here.

IWP Iowa City Public Library Panel Discussion Series

Fridays, 12-1 pm, Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A (123 S. Linn St., Iowa City)

Join the community conversation over free pizza! Fall Residents will discuss topics from "Writing on the Road" to "Language on the Fault Lines."

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IWP Shambaugh House Reading Series

Fridays, 5-6 pm, Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St., Iowa City)

Iowa City’s best multi-lingual reading series with bagels. Voices from around the world fill historic Shambaugh House, IWP HQ.

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IWP Prairie Lights Reading Series

Sundays, 4-5 pm, Prairie Lights Bookstore (15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City)

The IWP and UI MFA writing programs take over the 2nd floor of Prairie Lights – grab a glass of wine or a fancy soda and settle in for an hour of highlights from three of the writers’ best works.

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IWP Cinematheque

Sundays 7-9PM, FilmScene (Ped Mall location), 18 E. College St., Iowa City

A new free film every Sunday! Tour the far reaches of global cinema through films created or chosen by the IWP Fall Residents.

Free and open to the public, just like the rest of IWP’s events. Stay for a Q&A after the screening.

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Upcoming Events

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Happening Now

Congratulations on fall 2020 awards and nominations: Pola OLOIXARAC, one of the two winners of the prestigious 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award for her forthcoming Atlas Literario del Amazonas; Courtney Sina Meredith, co-short-listed on the NZSA Heritage Literary Awards list, and Wipas SRITHONG, one among the six finalists for the ASEAN-centric Epigram Books Fiction Prize.
Going strong, with A Perfect Cemetery forthcoming in 2021 in Jennifer Croft’s translation from Charco Press, Federico FALCO (Argentina, IWP ’12) is also the finalist of the 38th Premio Herralde for his novel Los llanos.
Among the 2020 finalists for the distinguished Neustadt International Prize for Literature are two IWP alumni: Sahar KHALIFEH (Palestinian Territories, IWP ’78) and Eduardo HALFÓN (Guatemala/USA; US Study Tours ’11). Congratulations!
On the shortlist of ALTA’s National Translation Award for 2020 (prose) is God’s Wife by Amanda MICHALOPOULOU (IWP ’19), translated from the Greek by Patricia Felisa Barbeito.
On 10/15/2020, the Al Quds/Jerusalem-based Palestinian poet Najwan DARWISH (IWP ‘10) and his translator will be launching Najwan’s new English-language collection, Embrace. (Registration for the Zoom event and a small fee required.)