I Quit! with Jean Herring – Cancelled

FilmScene at The Chauncey 404 E College St, Iowa City, IA

  Unfortunately this event is cancelled due to illness. Please check out I Quit! at you local library or bookstore.  Have you ever quit something? Parents, educators, and coaches often

Author Talk with Jen Ferguson

FilmScene at The Chauncey 404 E College St, Iowa City, IA

Métis with ancestral ties to the Red River (on her father's side) and Canadian settler (on her mother's side), an activist, a feminist, an auntie, and an accomplice armed with

Jr. High Writing Jam! Featuring the IYWP and author Jen Ferguson

The Tuesday Agency 404 E College St, Unit 408, Iowa City, IA

All 6th, 7th, and 8th graders who like to write are invited. Come together with other writers to compare ideas and be inspired to write something new. Instructors from the Iowa

Marathon Public Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Pedmall Weatherdance Fountain Stage College St., Iowa City, IA

April is Shakespeare’s birthday month (not to mention National Poetry Month), and Riverside Theatre and the City of Literature will celebrate by highlighting literary masterpieces rarely explored on stage: the

Spring 2024 Simon & Schuster AuthorFest

A Virtual Event

  Join TJ Alexander, Kaliane Bradley, & Jackie Lau in conversation with Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the duo behind the romance power-house Christina Lauren. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24th At 7PM

SlamoVision Slam

PS1 Close House 538 S Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA

SlamoVision is a project of the international UNESCO Cities of Literature. Slam poets in some of the 53 Cities of Literature around the world will compete in their home cities.

It Can’t Happen Here – A Staged Reading

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA

A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty, It Can't Happen Here follows the ascent of a

Stuart Dybek

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA

Stuart Dybek is the author of five books of fiction--Ecstatic Cahoots, Paper Lantern, I Sailed with Magellan, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods–as well as two collections of poetry, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their

Bruna Dantas Lobato – Blue Light Hours

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA

BRUNA DANTAS LOBATO is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translation for The Words

Film Screening: Taxi Driver with Notes from Underground

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA

This screening is part of a larger program that celebrates the 160th anniversary of the publication of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground." Martin Scorsese's 1976 film is the novel’s most