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SUMMARY:Slamovision Qualifying Slam
DESCRIPTION:Slam poets from across Iowa are invited to compete on Thursday\, September 3\, for the chance to represent Iowa City in the 2026 international Slamovision competition\, a project of the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. \nThe Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature\, Iowa City Poetry and Mic Check will host the qualifying slam September 3 at 6:30 p.m. at Close House\, 538 S. Gilbert St. Sign-up begins at 6 p.m. Poets have three minutes to perform\, with the winner advancing to the international competition. \nIowa City is hosting this year’s Slamovision final after Iowa poet Henry Morray won the 2025 international title. Poets from 23 UNESCO Cities of Literature will compete\, with the international winner determined by audiences in participating cities. The final will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday\, Nov. 1\, at the James Theater and will be livestreamed around the world.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/slamovision-qualifying-slam/
LOCATION:PS1 Close House\, 538 S Gilbert St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Will Boast – The Submerged
DESCRIPTION:Will Boast will read from his new short story collection\, The Submerged\, which was named the 2026 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction by the University of Georgia Press. \nThe University of Georgia Press offers this introduction to The Submerged\, which is praised by Molly Antopol\, author of The UnAmericans\, as “Bursting with compassion and wit and intelligence:” \n“In ten surprising and subtly devastating stories\, Will Boast explores the complex ways in which we long for a home\, for connection and purpose. A Sicilian barber takes on a refugee as an apprentice and upends his own quiet village life. A lonely New York architect starts an ill-advised relationship with an aspiring congressman. The comic mayhem of teenage locals in a tourist town suddenly turns deadly serious. A shooting in northern Wisconsin involving an immigrant sets a community against itself. The Submerged draws unforgettable portraits of those forced into exile and those who choose it themselves. Boast asks just what we’ll do when the time comes to leave everything behind.” \nWill Boast is the author of a story collection\, Power Ballads; a memoir\, Epilogue; and a novel\, Daphne. His second  collection\, The Submerged\, won the 2026 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and is forthcoming this September. His short fiction\, reporting\, and essays have appeared in  The New York Times Magazine\, The New Republic\, The Guardian\, The American Scholar\, Granta\, and  the Virginia Quarterly Review\, among other publications. He’s held fellowships from Stanford University\, the American Academy in Rome\, the University of East Anglia\, Yaddo\, and MacDowell\, and he’s taught at Stanford\, the University of Chicago\, Royal Holloway\, University of London\, and the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center in Rome. He resides in Chicago and London.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-will-boast-the-submerged/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
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