Author of God Land in conversation with NWP Professor/author of Thrown
September 6th, 7:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
The Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction
The Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction is made possible by the generous support of the Kyle J. and Sharon Krause Family Foundation. Visiting writers regularly join the Nonfiction Writing Program for a week or a semester at a time. In addition to teaching workshops, seminars, and master classes, visiting writers give readings at various venues in downtown Iowa City. Readings are open to the public.
Lyz Lenz in conversation with Kerry Howley
T. Kira Madden
Author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
September 12th, 6:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
T Fleischmann
NWP alum and author of Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
September 19th, 7:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly at the Iowa City Book Festival
authors of Abandon Me (Febos) and Bestiary (Kelly)
October 5th, 2:30 pm, Prairie Lights Books
Iowa City Book Festival
October 1-6, 2019, Iowa City
James Geary
Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor and author of Wit's End
October 3rd, 5:15-6:30 pm, Shambaugh Auditorium, UI Main Library: "5 Ways to Be Witty" (a talk)
October 4th, 4:00 pm, EPB 304 (Gerber Lounge): "Hearing - and Writing - Voices" (a talk)
Carl Klaus
Founder of The Nonfiction Writing Program, UI Professor Emeritus, and author of Coming of Age: An Octogenarian's Chronicle
October 3rd, 5:30 pm, Callaghan Auditorium (N110), College of Public Health Building (145 N. Riverside Drive)
Susan Steinberg
Former Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor and author of Machine
October 11th, 7:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
David Hamilton
University of Iowa Emeritus Professor, former editor of The Iowa Review, and author of A Certain Arc
October 24th, 7:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
Remembering Ned Stuckey-French
An Iowa City Memorial for Writer and NWP alum Ned Stuckey-French, PhD 1950-2019
October 26th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
Barbara Ehrenreich
2019 Krause Essay Prize Winner and author of Natural Causes and Nickel and Dimed
October 30th, 7:30 pm, Old Capitol Senate Chamber, University of Iowa
Kerry Howley at the Witching Hour Festival
NWP Professor and author of Thrown
November 1st, 4:00pm, University of Iowa Main Library (Main Library Gallery) / Witching Hour Festival
Andre Perry
NWP alum and author of Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
November 14th, 7:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
Erin Harris and Katherine Latshaw
Literary Agents at Folio Literary Management
November 15, 12:00 pm, EPB 304
M. Randal O'Wain
NWP alum and author of Meander Belt
December 6th, 7:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
Hanif Abdurraqib
Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor and author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
January 30th, 7:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
Colleen Lawrie
Executive Editor at PublicAffairs/Hachette
January 31st, 12:00 pm, EPB 304 (Gerber)
Mitchell S. Jackson
Author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family and The Residue Years
February 20th, 7:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
POSTPONED - Janet Hendrickson
NWP alum and translator of Sebastián de Covarrubias's Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language
March 22nd, 4:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books (reading)
March 23rd, 6:15 pm, PH213 (talk: "Translating the Dictionary: A Conversation with Janet Hendrickson")
POSTPONED - Lewis Hyde
Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor and author of Common as Air
March 26th, 7:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
POSTPONED - Mission Creek's Lit Walk: NWP Showcase featuring Ander Monson and Lulu Dewey
Lit Walk: NWP Showcase - Friday, April 3rd, 6:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books
Mission Creek Festival - April 1-4, 2020, Iowa City
POSTPONED - Joey McGarvey
Senior Editor at Milkweed Editions
April 9-10
NWP student meetings: tbd, EPB 403
Publishing Q&A (for grads and undergrads): Friday, April 10 at 10am in EPB 403 (Gerber)
POSTPONED - Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Whiting Award Winner and nonfiction editor of Black Warrior Review
April 23rd, 7:00 pm, Prairie Lights Books