Charlotte Brookins/University of Iowa Writers will descend on Iowa City for the beloved Iowa Summer Writing Festival in July. Workshops will be held in person for the first time since they moved […]
Iowa Summer Writing Festival returns in July
U.S. announces plan to rejoin UNESCO
The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization welcomes the announcement that the United States plans to rejoin UNESCO. Executive Director John Kenyon said the move will strengthen both UNESCO and […]
MusicIC 2023: Anonymous was a Woman: Centering Women’s Perspectives
MusicIC returns June 21-24, 2023, for its 13th season. Titled after the line “for most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, the festival […]
Marathon reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets set for April 23
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 […]
Johnson County Great Give Day
Join us on May 3rd to celebrate the important work of Johnson County nonprofit organizations! We are participating in Johnson County Great Give Day – a day of raising dollars […]
Davenport student named 2023-24 Iowa Student Poet Ambassador
Davenport high school student Lola Nakashima-Brooke has been named the Iowa Student Poet Ambassador (ISPA) for 2023-24. Nakashima-Brooke, a junior at Davenport Central High School, will be inaugurated in Des […]
Local poetry reading part of worldwide World Poetry Day celebrations
A multilingual poetry reading the evening of March 21 in Iowa City will be among several events taking place around the world as the UNESCO Cities of Literature celebrate World […]
Top student writers honored at One Book Two Book festival
The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization’s annual One Book Two Book Children’s Literature Festival will recognize the creative excellence of more than 30 area students as part of […]
Submissions open for 2023 Poetry in Public
Poetry in Public celebrates our community’s rich literary tradition and local writing talent by displaying poems by writers of all ages. Johnson County residents are invited to submit poems to […]
Cities of Literature recommend books tied to Sustainable Development Goals
A new angle on the conventional end-of-year “best of” lists sees the UNESCO Cities of Literature, led by Iowa City, take to Twitter from Dec. 1-17, with their lists of […]
