Join us tonight at 7 pm at the Iowa City Public Library for a reading with Writers' Workshop alum Elin Hilderbrand and conversation with Lan Samantha Chang!

Thursday, 9/25 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, poet CA Conrad will read from their new book from Wave Books, 'Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return' events.uiowa.edu/event/33545

Tonight! Wednesday, 9/24, 7PM at the Iowa City Public Library, Elin Hilderbrand will read from her newest book, 'The Academy', joined in conversation by Writers' Workshop director, Lan Samantha Chang events.uiowa.edu/event/33549

Casually dropping this--faculty list for the 2025 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, Oct 9-11 on the beautiful very treed campus of ASU Tempe. Learn more at piper.asu.edu/conference#a.... Only seven more days!

Tonight! Tuesday, 9/23 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Adedayo Agarau will read from 'The Years of Blood', joined in conversation by fellow IWW grad and poet, Othuke Umukoro events.uiowa.edu/event/33546

Tonight! 9/22, 5:30 p.m. at Shambaugh House, the International Writing Program and the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies are sponsoring Text and Textures: Women Creating Books with Bite, a conversation with Pervin Saket & Diane Vadino led by Devanshi Khetarpal events.uiowa.edu/event/34250

"4 Iowa alums longlisted for National Book Award" | via Iowa Now now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/09...

Alexia Arthurs at Lewis & Clark in Portland, OR on October 30 [w/ Rick Barot and Elizabeth Willis on deck for next year] college.lclark.edu/live/news/56...

Iowa undergraduate student, Ben Ahlrichs' poem, "Abderus on Heracles," has been been selected as the winner of The Iowa Review's David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize iowareview.org/blog/2025-wi...

Monica West leading a 12-wk virtual writing class, starting on October 8th sackettworkshop.com/writing/2025...

Keija Parssinen leading an online 8-week MFA Application Prep class [started September 16] for Sackett Street Writers' Workshop sackettworkshop.com/writing/2025...

Julia Fierro leading an 20-week virtual writing class, starting on October 8th sackettworkshop.com/writing/2025...

Kyle McCarthy leading an 8-week online writing class [started on 9/18] sackettworkshop.com/writing/2025...

Free Generative Writing Workshop led by Warren C. Longmire this weekend, Sunday, September 21, 5:30-7 pm CT, online or in person [Iowa City] iowacitypoetry.com/free-gen/fre...

"Winners named in City of Literature student essay contest" earlier this month | Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization news www.iowacityofliterature.org/winners-name...

Iowa City Public Library is holding a Let's Talk Books event, with discussion focusing on books by Workshop writers, Tuesday, September 23, from 7-8 p.m. CT online via Zoom www.icpl.org/events/63103...

Congratulations to past Workshop faculty member, Cole Swenson, named the 14th recipient of the Paul Engle Prize, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organizaton www.iowacityofliterature.org/cole-swensen...

I'll be moderating this Brooklyn Bookfest panel with novelists @jasondiamond.bsky.social, Denne Michele Norris and @katiekitamura.bsky.social. I hope you can join us.

London! 🇬🇧 So excited to be coming to the UK in October for the UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life (Europa Editions)! On October 9, I’ll be reading & talking with author Curtis Garner at Brick Lane Bookshop in London. 7 PM. Details here: bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...

Welcome, architects of the weird! Are you ready to haunt your readers? This class will give you all the tools you need to build a haunted house from the ground up. Online, October 16. Register now: buff.ly/jpQgNzg #writersofbluesky

Thursday! September 18 at 8 p.m., the Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Rae Armantrout, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/ Dey House. A Q&A session will follow, on Friday, 9/19 at 12:30 p.m. events.uiowa.edu/event/33550

Thursday! 9/18 at 7 pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, Iowa City-based 'Brink Literary Journal' presents a conversation w/ contributors (including Sarah Minor & Bennett Sims!) to 'Malleable and True: A Hybrid Craft Anthology', first publication of new imprint, Brink Books events.uiowa.edu/event/33548

Congratulations to all writers on the longlist for 2025 National Book Awards! including Angela Flournoy, for 'The Wilderness', in fiction, and Yiyun Li, for 'Things in Nature Merely Grow', in nonfiction www.nationalbook.org/category/news/

Congratulations! to all winners of the 46th Annual American Book Awards, announced by the Before Columbus Foundation this week, including Marcela Fuentes, for 'Malas', m.s. RedCherries, for 'mother', and John Edgar Wideman, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com

Congratulations! to all finalists for the 2025 Legacy Awards from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, including Afabwaje Kurian ('Before The Mango Ripens') in the fiction category, and Okwudili Nebeolisa ('Terminal Maladies') in poetry people.com/2025-zora-aw...

Thursday! 9/11 at 8:15 p.m., Please join us for a reading with visiting faculty members, Kevin Brockmeier and Carmen Maria Machado, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Dey House/Glenn Schaeffer Library events.uiowa.edu/event/34067

This afternoon! Please join us for a Q&A with Jess Walter at 3:30 in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House --- And tonight! at 7 pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, Jess Walter will read from his newest novel, 'So Far Gone' events.uiowa.edu/event/33543

"Painting Kurt Vonnegut: An Iowa Artist Celebrates a Workshop Legend" In this personal essay, Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Red Danielson takes a colorful voyage to discover the face of the literary icon 60 years after his arrival in Iowa City magazine.foriowa.org/story.php?ed...

"Painting Kurt Vonnegut" | Artist Red Danielson Reads His 'Iowa Magazine' Essay youtu.be/RFvllylQ39o?...

"Through the warmth and intensity of the mother-son bond, Barrodale illustrates why it takes most of us thousands of lifetimes to let go." John Larson's review of "Trip" by Amie Barrodale (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/08/b...

Friends in Baltimore, I’d love to see you this Sunday, 9/14, at noon at the Baltimore Book Fest, where I’ll be in conversation with Alicia Puglionesi. Full info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/garth-gree...

So excited for this!!!

Tonight! September 8th at 7 p.m. Peter Orner will read from his newest book, a novel called 'The Gossip Columnist's Daughter', joined in conversation by Kevin Brockmeier at Prairie Lights bookstore events.uiowa.edu/event/33299

Thursday! September 4th at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Amie Barrodale will discuss her newest book, a novel called 'Trip', with Diane Vadino events.uiowa.edu/event/33298

Congratulations to Jungin Angie Lee, Ajay Patri, and fellow recipients of grants from bestselling novelist James Patterson's inaugural “Go Finish Your Book” campaign! apnews.com/article/jame...

Tonight! Wednesday 8/27 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Workshop alum C. Mallon will read from her debut novel, 'Dogs', and will be joined in conversation by visiting Iowa Writers' Workshop instructor, Kevin Brockmeier events.uiowa.edu/event/33251

"Hockey, prep school and a mystery drive Pittsburgh native's new novel" | Anna Bruno on 90.5WESA, Pittsburgh NPR News www.wesa.fm/arts-culture...

A Light in the Northern Sea: A Q&A with Tim Brady | History in the Margins blog www.historyinthemargins.com/2025/08/12/a...

Elin Hilderbrand in New Canaan, CT on September 15 www.newcanaanlibrary.org/event/hold-e...

Tony Tulathimutte in conversation with Rebecca Rukeyser in Berlin, Germany on September 23 www.shakespeareandsons.com/pages/reject...

"All over everything: An Interview with Izzy Casey" | 'Poetry Daily' What Sparks Poetry : Building Community poems.com/features/wha...

'Sentences Toward Birds' (1975), by Robert Grenier, highlighted on Read a Little Poetry blog readalittlepoetry.com/2025/08/13/s...

Eliana Ramage in Nashville, TN on September 1st parnassusbooks.net/event/2025-0...

Angela Flournoy in Milwaukee, WI on October 24 www.findyournichemke.com/product/book...

"C. Mallon reveals the books, films, and music that inspired 'Dogs'" | Debutiful literary website debutiful.net/2025/08/15/c...

Elin Hilderbrand discussing 'The Academy', co-written with daughter Shelby Cunningham, in Plymouth, MA on October 20 spirecenter.org/event/an-eve...

Lindsay O’Connor Stern to give UT Comparative Literature Fall Welcome Talk on September 5th in Austin, TX liberalarts.utexas.edu/complit/news...

"The Big Conversation," with panelists including Julia Fierro | in AWP's 'The Writer's Chronicle' this month writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/TWC/2025...

"Banned Books with Monica West, reading from 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison" | Raven Chronicles Press Banned Books podcast series www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu75...

Recording of 'Goddess Complex' author Sanjena Sathian in conversation with Champaca Bookstore last week www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy30...