Prairie Lights: IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series
August 30 @ 4:00 pm
Join Prairie Lights for their annual IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Sarah Gilmartin (Ireland) and Iván Hochman (Argentina). They will be accompanied by local author and IWP Senior Editor Lauren Haldeman and a current Iowa Writers’ Workshop student (to be announced soon).
Sarah Gilmartin’s short stories have been published in The Dublin Review, The Tangerine and The Stinging Fly. She won the Máirtín Crawford Short Story Award in 2020. Her novels Dinner Party: A Tragedy (2021), Service (2023) and Little Vanities (2026) are published by Pushkin Press. They have been shortlisted for the Irish Books Awards, the Kate O’Brien Award, and translated into Italian, German and (forthcoming) French. She was the 2025 Arts Council Writer-in-Residence at Dublin City University.
Iván Hochman (b. 1994, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an actor, writer, screenwriter, director, and teacher. His play Decir te amo es un atentado received a National Playwriting Award from the Teatro Nacional Cervantes and was presented at the Bienal de Arte Joven. He was selected for the Cannes Writers Club at Canneseries (2024) for his work as a screenwriter. His first novel, Por qué te vas (Milena Caserola, 2020; Alfaguara, 2023), was included in the Mapa de las Lenguas collection (2024). His second novel, Años luz que no brillamos, is forthcoming from Alfaguara. He starred in the Netflix series Love After Music, for which he received several acting awards. He is currently working on a science fiction short story collection and two feature films. He teaches creative writing and mentors long-form literary projects.
Lauren Haldeman is the author/illustrator of the graphic novels Wild That We’re Alive and Team Photograph, and the poetry collections Instead of Dying (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 2017), Calenday and the chapbook The Eccentricity is Zero. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Tin House, The Colorado Review, Fence, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast and The Rumpus. A poet, web designer and comic book artist, she has been a recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, a Vermont Studio Center residency, the Colorado Prize for Poetry and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
