The Visiting Author program is a targeted program the ICCSD Foundation supports. In partnership with Hills Bank’s Community Reading Month, two book authors are selected each year to visit the...
Each of the International Writing Program's Fall Residencies ends with an "Images of America" panel wherein the writers speak on their time in Iowa and the U.S. more generally, what...
A conversation between four IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Writing Love in the Age of Irony," followed by Q&A.
Wong Yi Eva (fiction writer, essayist,...
A conversation between three IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Must a Migrant Be Grateful?," followed by Q&A.
Brenda Navarro (fiction writer, editor; Spain/...
The UI International Writing Program and the Center for Asian Pacific Studies will be hosting a bilingual reading featuring 2023 Fall residents Kevin Chen (Taiwan), Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Wong Yi...
Poetry in Public celebrates our community’s rich literary tradition and local writing talent by displaying poems by writers of all ages. Hear from some of the 2023 Selected Poets. Also on the bill...
In every corner of this universe, there is a story waiting to be heard. Join the students of the Literary Translation MFA as they gather and read excerpts from their translations of world...
Nathan Hill’s best-selling debut novel, The Nix, was named the number one book of 2016 by Entertainment Weekly and one of the year’s best books by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR,...
Kristen Roupenian holds a PhD in English from Harvard, an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and a BA from Barnard College. She is the author of the short...
Josh Larsen is the co-host of the radio show and podcast Filmspotting and author of Movies Are Prayers. He will discuss his new book, Fear Not! A Christian Appreciation of Horror. Presented in...