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Residency Events at a Glance

Please click each heading for our usual Fall Residency events schedule. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we were unable to invite residents to Iowa City in 2020. Our regularly scheduled program will resume in Fall 2021.

Follow us for introductions of the residents on IWP's Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @UIIWP – 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

We mark the passing of one of IWP’s early participants, the Yugoslav/Macedonian poet, translator, editor, and co-organizer of the Struga Poetry Evenings, Bogomil GJUZEL.
The Octopus Has Three Hearts is the fiction debut of the imaginative poet and teacher, Vancouver-based Rachel ROSE.
Among the 2021-2 Cullman Fellows at the New York Public Library are Josephine ROWE, Madeleine THIEN and Lewis HYDE.
The story “Red_Bati” has landed Dilman DILA a spot on the British Science Fiction Association 2021 awards shortlist.
Hind SHOUFANI, the co-writer and editor of the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated short The Present, in which a Palestinian father and daughter try to cross Israeli checkpoints, speaks about the project here. On Netflix through April 2021.