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SUMMARY:Iowa City Book Festival
DESCRIPTION: The Iowa City Book Festival is happening October 18–25\, 2026! Join us for a week of literary events\, author talks\, readings\, and more at various locations throughout downtown Iowa City.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/iowa-city-book-festival-2/
LOCATION:Downtown Iowa City
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:PorchLight: Write Now - Community Supported Writing Group
DESCRIPTION:PorchLight’s Write Now Writer’s Group provides community\, and learning opportunities for beginning to intermediate writers. At their monthly meetings\, share short craft lessons\, generate writing from prompts\, and\, on occasion\, provide responses to participants’ work in progress. Writers working in any genre are welcome. \nThis is a great group for writers who have not had the time or opportunity to pursue a traditional MFA. \nRSVP one week in advance on their website!
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/porchlight-write-now-community-supported-writing-group/2026-10-19/
LOCATION:PorchLight Literary Arts Center\, 1019 E Washington St\, Iowa City\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:Tree Tour: Literary Grove at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Explore the Literary Grove with University of Iowa Arborist Andy DahlTake a guided stroll through the Literary Grove\, where each tree has a story to tell. Arborist Andy Dahl will share the unique histories and literary connections of these remarkable trees\, many linked to celebrated authors from the world-renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/tree-tour/
LOCATION:Dey House\, 102 Dey House\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Marilynne Robinson and Nicholas Kristof
DESCRIPTION:How Can We Hope When It All Feels Hopeless? An evening with Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Marilynne Robinson \nMarilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Housekeeping\, Gilead\, Home\, Lila\, and Jack. Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award\, while Home received the Orange Prize for Fiction and Lila won the National Book Critics Circle Award. \nRobinson is also the author of numerous books of essays\, including Reading Genesis\, The Givenness of Things\, When I Was a Child I Read Books\, and Mother Country\, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her honors include the National Humanities Medal\, the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction\, and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. \nA longtime member of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop faculty\, Robinson taught at the University of Iowa for 25 years before retiring as the F. Wendell Miller Professor in 2016. She remains one of America’s most acclaimed novelists and essayists. \nNicholas Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The New York Times\, where his twice-weekly opinion columns have appeared since 2001. He joined the newspaper in 1984 and has served as a correspondent in Los Angeles\, Hong Kong\, Beijing\, and Tokyo\, as well as Associate Managing Editor of the Sunday editions. \nKristof won his first Pulitzer Prize with his wife\, journalist Sheryl WuDunn\, for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. He received a second Pulitzer Prize for commentary that brought international attention to the genocide in Darfur and other humanitarian crises. \nOver the course of his career\, Kristof has reported from more than 140 countries. He is the co-author\, with WuDunn\, of China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power and Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia. \nPresented in partnership with The Geneva Lecture Series \nThe University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication supports Nicholas Kristof and Marilynne Robinson as 2026 Bernard and Ethel Adler Hurwitz Lecturers.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/marilynne-robinson-and-nicholas-kristof/
LOCATION:Macbride Auditorium\, 17 N. Clinton St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
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