Iowa City’s contributions to literature are innumerable and brilliant. Renowned writers have found inspiration and support in Iowa City, and institutions dedicated to the pursuit of literature thrive...
David DeGusta is a second-year MFA student in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. On Sept. 25, he will take part in a conversation at Prairie Lights bookstore as part of the International Writing...
Eliza David struggled to find Black female protagonists in the stories she read. So she started writing them herself.
As a self-publishing novelist and blogger, librarian, and current University...
Soon after Ann Kreitman came out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, she happened upon a book of queer love letters. For years, Kreitman said she felt like an outcast in her identity, never seeing...
Corinne Stanley, an Iowan writer and educator, held a reading of her latest work, “La Tercera Luz: A Poetic Journey Through Spain,” on July 21 at MERGE, IC. The room was decorated with bright...
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle was a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974 when he discovered that humans were trying to teach apes' sign language. This caused him to question the social order enforced...
The lights dim, and for a moment, everyone holds their breath in anticipation. A guitar riff pierces the silence, and the Mission Creek Festival commences.
The Mission Creek Festival, spanning...
Drue Denmon was a student at the University of Pittsburgh’s Young Writers Institute when she met and worked with professor Tameka Cage Conley. Conley, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, detailed...
The second floor of Prairie Lights Bookstore once held lively and inspirational Q&A’s from local authors, then the pandemic forced it to sit still and quiet, its long shelves full of books ignored...
With a week off from stress-inducing college classes, students can take the opportunity to read books other than their textbooks — escaping into another world over spring break.
There are...
The Local Libraries LIT, or Listen, Initiate, Talk program, has held virtual events featuring authors since 2020. So far, the event has hosted attendees to interact with published authors, including...
After taking part in the popular trend of at-home DNA testing, author and UI alum Lori Erickson was inspired to combine her own ancestral connections with the historical spirits of Norwegian culture...
