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.
Superb reviews for The Play of Dolls, Kunwar Narain's classic 1971 story collection, translated from the Hindi by Apurva Narain and Johnny Vater, recently a research assistant at IWP.
An exhibit about the IWP, co-curated by SHIBASAKI Tomoka (IWP 2016) and TAKIGUCHI Yūshō (IWP 2018) for the Hachinohe Book Center, was recently covered by Japan's most prominent newspaper, the Asahi Shinbun.
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 2019...
A new book of poems, this time in an English translation, by the prolific Ester DISCHEREIT (IWP '17).
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