Nonfiction

Articles:
2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Now Accepting Registrations
UI Patient Voice Project Helps Tap into Creative Strength
Veterans invited to free UI Midwest Writers Workshop
Launch of eXchanges Winter Issue
Poets & Writers Magazine Ranks Iowa #1
UI Libraries Host the ‘Iowa City Book Festival’ July 18
Live Discussion: UI Nonfiction’s Robin Hemley Online Chat
‘Elevenses’ Literary Hour Opens the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
Workshop Alum Rao’s Novel ‘In Hanuman’s Hands’ Reviewed
Robin Hemley’s Article ‘The Great Book Blockade of 2009’ Sparks International Attention
91st Meridian’s New Issue Online
‘The Examined Life’ Conference Focuses on Creative Writing in Medical Education
Review: UI Nonfiction Director Hemley’s ‘Do Over’
UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2009 Registration Now Open
Writing Acts as Therapy, UI Researcher Finds
‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients
UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
Workshop alum Michael Judge’s op-ed ‘After the Flood’
The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
UI Museum of Art Hosts Writer-in-Residence Program
‘Dream Not of Other Worlds,’ by Huston Diehl
To Do: “Translating the Music of Poetry,” ‘Best New Poets,’ and Tony Eprile on the Art of Seeing
“Ariadne,” by Janani Sreenivasan
Listen: Ryan Van Meter and Vershawn Ashanti Young
“My Father in White, Above the Royal Blue,” by Doug Hesse
Call for Proposals: 2007 NonfictioNow Conference
“That Glorious Time of Old,” by Mary Swander
W.D. Snodgrass and Lia Purpura Finalists for NBCC Awards
Rebecca Sheir (NWP, ‘06) on Public Radio This Weekend
Pico Iyer Interview: “Every writer is an outsider on the subject he is writing about”
NY Times Names Trussoni’s Memoir to “10 Best Books of 2006”
“The Best Museum Benches in the Country” & Other Podcasts

Podcasts:
Carl H. Klaus: “Days into Daybooks, a Voice for All Seasons”
Marilyn Abildskov - “Leap: Imagination in Nonfiction”
Christine Hemp on Writing About Happiness

Upcoming Events:
Ashley Butler reading, 4/01/10
Sarah Gorham Q&A, 4/02/10

Past Events:
Kathleen Norris reading, 3/08/10
Jerome Loving reading, 3/06/10
Matthew Davis reading, 2/24/10
John D’Agata reading, 2/10/10
Cancelled: Ellen Lewin reading, 2/09/10
Nick Pace reading, 2/05/10
Jerald Walker reading, 2/01/10
Tim Fay and the Wapsipinicon Almanac reading, 1/29/10
POROI Seminar, 1/28/10
Steve Bloom reading, 12/04/09
Linda and Robert Scarth reading, 11/20/09
Philip Graham reading, 11/18/09
Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student reading, 11/13/09
David Plouffe reading, 11/12/09
Gretel Ehrlich reading, 11/11/09
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg reading, 11/04/09
Hope Edelman reading, 10/29/09
Who’s for Dinner Anthology, 10/23/09
Roger Thurow reading, 10/13/09
Mark Grey reading, 10/06/09
Michael Silverblatt, 10/01/09
Kate Greenstreet, Elizabeth Robinson and Colleen Lookinbill reading, 9/30/09
John McPhee reading, 9/29/09
Small Octopus of Death Anthology, 9/25/09
Dan Orr reading, 9/25/09
Floyd Skloot reading, 9/18/09
John D’Agata, James Galvin, Elizabeth McCracken & David Hamilton reading, 9/16/09
Matt McCue reading, 9/08/09
Anthology Readings: “Becky and the Stove Anthology”, 9/04/09
An Iowa Review Reading & Reception Celebrating David Hamilton, 9/03/09
Robert Schultz reading, 8/11/09
Nick Reding reading, 7/22/09
Mary Gottschalk reading, 7/20/09
Iowa City Book Festival, 7/18/09
Lorree Rackstraw reading, 7/13/09
Zachary Jack reading, 6/26/09
Shannon Olson & Morgan Grayce Willow reading, 6/20/09
Robin Hemley reading, 6/11/09
Jonathan Miles reading, 6/08/09
Tom Standage reading, 6/05/09
Michael Perry reading, 6/04/09
May McGregor Burnett reading, 5/19/09
Ann Kolsrud reading, 5/12/09
Jim Hayes and Richard Alan King reading, 5/09/09
Undergraduate Creative Writing Track reading, 5/06/09
Writers Gone Public, 5/05/09
Writers Gone Public, 5/04/09
Xu Xi reading, 4/30/09
Gene Baur reading, 4/28/09
Word Painter reading, 4/24/09
Earthwords reading, 4/22/09
Matthew Rothschild reading, 4/21/09
Gerda Lerner reading, 4/20/09
Frankie Condon talk, 4/20/09
Mari Culver book signing, 4/16/09
Eula Biss reading, 4/15/09
Adina Hoffman reading, 4/13/09
Lauri Lebo reading, 4/10/09
Honor Moore reading, 4/09/09
Augusten Burroughs reading, 4/07/09
Edmund White, Charlie D’Ambrosio, Andrew Milward reading, 4/04/09
Forklift: Ohio/Anthology reading, 4/03/09
POROI Rhetoric Seminar, 4/03/09
Steve Kuusisto/Anthology Reading, 4/02/09
Harry Allen lecture, 4/01/09
Michael Lux reading, 3/29/09
Anthology Reading: Anthology Because of Dogs, 3/27/09
Anne Fadiman reading, 3/09/09
Anthology Reading Series, 3/07/09
Brad Gooch reading, 3/05/09
Jill Bialosky reading, 2/26/09
Lea VanderVelde reading, 2/25/09
E.O. Wilson lecture, 2/11/09
Adam Gopnik lecture, 2/05/09
POROI Rhetoric Seminar, 2/05/09
Wapsipinicon Almanac reading, 1/30/09
Writers Gone Public, 12/11/08
Writers Gone Public, 12/10/08
Festival of Expression: an open performance event, 12/04/08
Tom Dean reading, 12/04/08
Mark Blumberg reading, 12/02/08
eXchanges Launch Party, 11/20/08
Kurt Michael Friese reading, 11/14/08
Ian Michael Koontz reading, 11/12/08
Anthology Reading Series, 11/07/08
Drake Hokanson & Carol Kratz reading, 11/07/08
ICPL Panel: Images of America, 11/07/08
Richard A. King & James P. Hayes reading, 11/01/08
Ishmael Beah lecture, 10/29/08
Sarah Vowell reading, 10/24/08
WSWU session: ‘Writing the Iowa River’, 10/10/08
WSWU session: ‘Sandra Steingraber: Writing Rivers in the Footsteps of Rachel Carson’, 10/09/08
WSWU session: ‘Science and Subjectivity’, 10/08/08
WSWU session: ‘Writing Science Textbooks’, 10/08/08
WSWU session: ‘The Role of Writing in Learning Science’, 10/08/08
Gary Presley reading, 10/03/08
Peter Feldstein & Steve Bloom reading, 9/28/08
UIMA Word Painters, 9/19/08
Robert Mitchell reading, 9/19/08
A Tribute to David Foster Wallace, 9/16/08