The 2018 Fall Residency has concluded.
Please check back in August of 2019 for our next Fall Residency events schedule.
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 their best work!
Join the community conversation over free pizza, with IWP Fall Residents discussing topics from "Wo/Men in Flux" to "You Must Read This."
Iowa City’s best multi-lingual reading series with bagels. Voices from around the world fill historic Shambaugh House, IWP HQ.
Tour the far reaches of global cinema through an informal film series curated by the IWP Fall Residents, with introductions and discussions lead by the writers.
In the travel journal Off Assignment, journalist and novelist Milagros SOCORRO (Venezuela, IWP '12) recalls a snowy day in Iowa City, and one woman's special gesture.
A powerful opinion piece in NYTimes on the Dalits' role in India's upcoming elections by activist and novelist Meena KANDASAMY ('09).
Yvonne Adhiambo OUWUOR's new novel Dragonfly Sea is reviewed in NYTimes. Ouwuor, a 2005 and 2017 IWP alumna, is the author, previously, of the epic Dust.
Congratulations to novelist and essayist Beaudelaine PIERRE (IWP '07) for making the final list in the Many Voices 2018 competition at New Rivers Press.
In a New York Times op ed, publisher and novelist Ameena HUSSEIN ('05) offers a sharp analysis of and context for the 2019 Easter terror bombings in her native Sri Lanka.
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