Please click each heading for our 2019 Fall Residency events schedule, and check back in early fall of 2020 for the next round of Fall Residency events.
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."
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.
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.
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.
On the long-running Indian culture blog The Middle Stage, Chandrahas CHOUDHURY (IWP '10) casts a new light on women and/in books in India's 19th c literary landscape.
"The Rose" by Soukaina HABIBALLAH (IWP'19), translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu Zeid, graces the front page of Words Without Borders on this Valentine's Day..
A new book of poems, this time in an English translation, by the prolific Ester DISCHEREIT (IWP '17).
Kristian Sendon CORDERO (IWP '17) co-edited a special issue of Words Without Borders on writing in the Philippines. Its range of poetry in the country's many languages includes Filipino work of Genevieve ASENJO (IWP '12).
Muhamed "Nabo" ABDELNABI (Egypt, IWP '13) has been awarded France's 2019 Prix de la littérature arabe for his 2016 novel, published last year in the UK as In the Spider's Room .
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